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Homeownership’s Rise And Fall Is Disconnected From Conservative Mythology
WSJ Editorial Board Misreads CBO Report About Housing Finance
Ed DeMarco Redefined His Job Description as GSE “Conservator”
Republican Path to 270 Electoral Votes in 2016 Looks Close to Nonexistent
Is Fannie Mae Seriously Over-Provisioned?
How the $187 Billion GSE ‘Bailout’ Went Awry
Pushing The Big Lie at Elite Business Schools
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”
Rating Agency Lawsuit: How S&P Fabricates Evidence Out of Thin Air
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?
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
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
In Romney’s “Dream,” He Takes Undeserved Credit For Steel Dynamics
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
ISDA’s Lawyers Make Up “Facts” And “Law” To Overturn Limits On Speculators
GOP Scheme For “Mortgage Finance Reform” Insulates Fraudsters From Accountability
Prosecuting The Rating Agencies: A Roadmap Through Three Big Falsehoods
How Murdoch’s Times of London and Fox News Coordinate Their Deceitful Reporting on Climate Change
The Times Explains Why Estimates of Shale Gas Reserves May Be Way Overblown
Hank Paulson Rewrites History Before Congress
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
How Fraudster Economists Assert That “Higher Taxes Won’t Reduce the Deficit”
The Fatal Flaws In The Case Against Maxine Waters
The Fannie Mae Accounting Scam Promoted by the Chairman of the S.E.C.
The Bush Tax Cuts and the Republican Cult of Economic Failure
When Hedge Fund Managers Talk, Andrew Ross Sorkin Transcribes, Uncritically
N.Y.Times Op-Ed Impugns Financial Reform by Imagining Fannie Is Just Like Wall Street
The Charges Against Maxine Waters Conflate Secretarial Tasks With “Crafting Legislation”
Financial Legislation Doesn’t Mean Much If The Government Won’t Aggressively Police Against Fraud
When the House Office on Ethics Disregarded Standards of Honesty
How the Charges Against Maxine Waters Were Fabricated Out of Next to Nothing

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