The Big Picture (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fannie and Freddie’s Future - Reaction to Paulson Speech with Vince Reinhart, Former Fed Official on Monetary Affairs: GSEs as Private Firms with Public Purpose Don’t Work; Paulson Favors Utility-Like Companies to Replace GSEs January 08, 2009
The Seferm Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Wednesday said the best option for the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be for the mortgage giants to be run like public utilities.
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
We at Intel have a come-hither go-away relationship with hedge-funder John Paulson . On the one hand, we find the way he made billions of dollars off the financial meltdown — essentially, other people's grief and misery — repellent and vaguely unethical, like he "bought insurance policies on houses he didn’t own along the Indian Ocean just moments before the tsunami hit," as Gary Weiss puts...
Dismal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Make the GSEs regulated public utilities, outgoing Treasury Secretary suggests.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON | Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Wednesday said the best option for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could be for the mortgage giants to be run like public utilities.
Financial24 (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
WASHINGTON : Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says allowing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to return to their old operating ways is not an option.Paulson says Congress and the next admin
InformedTrades (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Go to Full Article (http://www.cnbc.com//id/28544680)
Vote By Issues! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Economic Issues: News & Videos about Economic Issues - CNN.com Don’t expect Tim Geithner to set any records when it comes to doling out the rest of the Treasury’s bailout fund. Go to Source
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gary Weiss submits: That's the subject of my latest Portfolio article, which is online here. In the context of an in-depth profile of John Paulson, I discuss the role of short-selling in the recent calamity. Note Jim Chanos's account of a conversation that he had with Alan Schwartz of Bear Stearns (BSC) just before Bear went belly-up. Complete Story »
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Felix Salmon submits: Gary Weiss has a profile of John Paulson in the February issue of Portfolio which I misread when I first came across it. He talks a bit about Paulson being "unrepentant" about the money he's made during the market crash and making "no apologies" for it. And as if to answer the question of what Paulson has to apologize for, he adds this: Left unexamined is...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said Wednesday that allowing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to return to their old operating ways is not an option.
Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paulson said that allowing the two mortgage giants to return to their previous operating approach was not an option. Image:...
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama is the "decision maker" in spending the rest of a $700 billion financial bailout fund, but should consider continuing bank capital injections, outgoing U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Wednesda ...
Market Movers (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Gary Weiss has a profile of John Paulson in the February issue of Portfolio which I misread when I first came across it. He talks a bit about Paulson being "unrepentant" about the money he's made during the market crash and making "no apologies" for it. And as if to answer the question of what Paulson has to apologize for, he adds this: Left unexamined is the uncomfortable moral...
felixsalmon.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Gary Weiss has a profile of John Paulson in the February issue of Portfolio which I misread when I first came across it. He talks a bit about Paulson being "unrepentant" about the money he's made during the market crash and making "no apologies" for it. And as if to answer the question of what Paulson has to apologize for, he adds this: Left unexamined is the uncomfortable moral...
