Insiders' Game

Mortgage Markets

Fraud infected the mortgage markets like a virus. Today the mortgage markets remain paralyzed because the government remains unwilling to examine the scope of that fraud.

Treasury’s Claims About Fannie and Freddie Need A Reality Check
Homeownership’s Rise And Fall Is Disconnected From Conservative Mythology
GSE Conservatorships: A Washington Post Article Gets A Reality Check
Ed DeMarco Redefined His Job Description as GSE “Conservator”
Is Fannie Mae Seriously Over-Provisioned?
How the $187 Billion GSE ‘Bailout’ Went Awry
Pushing The Big Lie at Elite Business Schools
The GSEs Are Not Replaceable
Private Mortgage Securitizations Have a Math Problem
Fatal Flaw In Proposal For Housing Finance Reform
Koch Bros./GOP Brain Trust For Housing Finance “Reform”
How Regulators Contrived the Fannie Mae “Accounting Scandal”
The Big Lie Mutated in NYT: More on AEI’s History of the Financial Crisis
FHFA Lawsuits By The Numbers: GSE Recoveries Are The Tip Of The Iceberg
Do Fannie and Freddie Need Reforming?
Investors say, “Fool me once…” to the moral hazard of RMBS
Gov’t. “Watchdog” Bamboozles Press About Fannie and Freddie
Moody’s CEO “Categorically Rejects” The Concept Of Ratings Shopping
Why GE and Citi Settled with FHFA
GSE Critics Ignore Loan Performance
Fannie’s Settlement Agreement Conceals Dirty Laundry
S&P’s Utterly Bogus 1st Amendment Defense
GSE Critics Disavowing The Big Lie?
The Big Lie Annotated: An AEI History Of The Financial Crisis
Mortgages, Ed Pinto, And A Vast Conspiracy Of Silence
SEC Reversed Its Initial Charges Re: Fannie Mae’s “Accounting Fraud”
Fannie Mae “Accounting Scandal” Discredited In Court
What Moody’s Ex-President “Never Knew”
The Panic of 2007 and Blind Faith in Fatally Flawed AAA Ratings
Fannie Mae Ignores SEC Lawsuit
Fatal Flaws In The Lawsuit Against Fannie Mae Execs, Part 2
Fatal Flaws In The Case Against Fannie Mae Execs, Part 1
GOP Scheme For “Mortgage Finance Reform” Insulates Fraudsters From Accountability
Prosecuting The Rating Agencies: A Roadmap Through Three Big Falsehoods
How Goldman Dissembled In The Wall Street Journal
Hank Paulson Rewrites History Before Congress
A Glimpse At Goldman’s Mortgage Trading and the Pump And Dump Scheme Known As ABX
FCIC Shows That Most Synthetic CDOs Were Designed To Fail
Why No Other Republican Would Sign On to Peter Wallison’s FCIC “Report”
How An FCIC Commissioner Fabricated a 25-Million Mortgage “Meltdown”
The Real Reason Fannie and Freddie Lost So Much Money
The Fannie Mae Accounting Scam Promoted by the Chairman of the S.E.C.
N.Y.Times Op-Ed Impugns Financial Reform by Imagining Fannie Is Just Like Wall Street
Financial Legislation Doesn’t Mean Much If The Government Won’t Aggressively Police Against Fraud
Why Do The Rich Default on Their Mortgages? Because In California and Arizona, They Can
Why Goldman Got the S.E.C. to Back Off
Deciphering Joe Cassno’s Lies Before The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Alan Greenspan’s Financial History for Lobotomy Victims
Goldman’s CDOs Had Nothing to Do With the Real Estate Bubble
Hard Evidence of Goldman’s Corrupt Intent and the Myth of the Sophisticated Investor

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