AEI's housing finance reform plan provides the opportunity for a possible bi-partisan solution that could result in true reform of our housing finance market.

It’s depressing to watch, but it is missing the point that the Volcker rule would not have prevented the loss and is probably unworkable.

The Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuits against six top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, announced last week, are a seminal event.

John McCain is close to grabbing a stranglehold on the GOP presidential nomination.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said that the administration wants to bring private capital back to the housing finance market. But without reopening Dodd-Frank and reigning in the Federal Housing Administrations (FHA), winding down government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will not be enough to allow the private market to return

Few recognize just how troubled this government agency really is. When measured against the accounting system used by private mortgage insurers, the FHA is deeply insolvent, with a capital shortfall of tens of billions of dollars. If it were a private firm, state regulators would immediately shut it down. 

Introduction by Peter J. Wallison at 6/9/2003 "Are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Meeting Their Obligations?" event.

The only real excuse for Fannie and Freddie to exist at all is to help in times of housing finance crisis.