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- Federal Privatization Update
Annual Privatization Report examines privatization and public-private partnership trends at the federal level
Adam Summers, Anthony Randazzo, Steven Titch and Victor Nava
April 15, 2013 - ANALYSIS: Privatization of Financial Regulation is Not Impossible
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Federal Government Privatization
Anthony Randazzo and Victor Nava
April 15, 2013 - How Obama’s Plan to Encourage Homeownership Will Hurt the Poor the Most
Cathy Reisenwitz
April 3, 2013, 5:33pm - Unmasking the Mortgage Interest Deduction - Update 2012
Who Benefits and By How Much?
Anthony Randazzo and Dean Stansel
December 12, 2012 - Thinking about Foreclosures and the Fauxcovery
What housing data you should look for in the coming months
Anthony Randazzo and Katie Furtick
October 24, 2012 - Does the Paul Ryan Choice Ensure a Real Housing Debate?
Weighing the records of Obama-Biden and Romney-Ryan
Samuel Staley and Anthony Randazzo
August 17, 2012 - Picking Apart Krugman's Ridiculous Housing Op-Ed
Anthony Randazzo
August 3, 2012, 4:49pm - Cities Taking Mortgages with Eminent Domain is a Bad Idea
Both Robert Shiller and city officials in San Bernardino County should reconsider their support for condemning underwater mortgages
Anthony Randazzo
July 6, 2012 - Eminent Domain to "Condemn" Underwater Mortgages: Another Bad Idea
Exploring the debate over principal reduction
Anthony Randazzo
June 29, 2012 - To Help Fix Housing, Disclose Mortgage Addresses
Mortgage investors should have the same privilege as banks
Marc Joffe and Anthony Randazzo
June 24, 2012 - 4 Reasons Why the Housing Market Still Hasn't Recovered
Sometimes leading indicators are deceiving
Anthony Randazzo
June 18, 2012 - Fannie Mae Breaks Its 14 Quarter Bailout Streak
Anthony Randazzo
May 11, 2012, 12:02pm - (Video) Interview on Reason's New Mortgage Reform Study
Anthony Randazzo
May 10, 2012, 2:12pm - How to Restore Trust in Mortgage-Backed Securities
Perpetuating government control of housing finance in today’s era of high deficits is unaffordable
Anthony Randazzo and Marc Joffe
May 10, 2012 - Freddie Mac Takes $19 Million More from Taxpayers
Anthony Randazzo
May 8, 2012, 7:01pm - How to Reduce the Government's Trillions In Housing Credit Risk
New ideas for the mortgage reform debate
Anthony Randazzo and Marc Joffe
May 7, 2012 - New Study: Restoring Trust in Mortgage-Backed Securities
May 3, 2012, 11:29am - Restoring Trust in Mortgage-Backed Securities
How the Private Sector Can Return to Mortgage Finance
Marc Joffe and Anthony Randazzo
May 3, 2012 - Privatization, Outsourcing and Insourcing Trends in Federal Government
Federal Government Privatization Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2011
Adam Summers and Anthony Randazzo
May 1, 2012 - A Few Quick Thoughts On Mortgage Rates
Anthony Randazzo
April 30, 2012, 8:48am - New at Reason: Review of Federal Privatization Issues in 2011 and Today
Leonard Gilroy and Harris Kenny
April 23, 2012, 11:59pm - FHFA, DeMarco, and the Politics of Mortgage Modifications
Anthony Randazzo
April 16, 2012, 12:05pm - Barry Ritholtz On Housing Pessimism
Anthony Randazzo
April 10, 2012, 2:15pm - A Financial Products Agency is a Bad Idea
Anthony Randazzo
April 3, 2012, 10:21am - Regulators Making Moves to Force More Banks Into Mortgage Settlement
Anthony Randazzo
April 2, 2012, 10:49pm - FHA's Troubles Are No Myth, Despite What HUD Tries to Spin Away
Anthony Randazzo
March 30, 2012, 3:42pm - The MBS Investor's Case Against the Mortgage Settlement
It is understandable that MBS investors are upset about this, but do they have a case in court?
Anthony Randazzo
March 26, 2012 - No, This Is Not a Housing Recovery
Anyone who says we are in the midst of a housing recovery is wrong
Anthony Randazzo
March 23, 2012 - Why a Judge Should Reject the Mortgage Settlement
Anthony Randazzo
March 23, 2012, 1:51pm - Mortgage Settlement's Servicing Standards are Codifying Theft
Anthony Randazzo
March 20, 2012, 1:51pm - Housing Starts Up, Problematic Short-term Perspectives on Housing Also Rise
Anthony Randazzo
March 20, 2012, 10:39am - Is Obama Making Home Ownership an Entitlement?
Samuel Staley
March 15, 2012, 8:59pm - Mortgage Settlement BS: Banks Don't Have to Admit Guilt
Anthony Randazzo
March 14, 2012, 4:44pm - Freddie Mac Takes Another $146 Million
Anthony Randazzo
March 12, 2012, 9:09am - Shaun Donovan Spins the Mortgage Settlement on The Daily Show
Anthony Randazzo
March 7, 2012, 11:39am - Fannie Mae Takes Another $4.6 Billion from Taxpayers
Anthony Randazzo
February 29, 2012, 10:23am - (Video) Piling on the Unjust Mortgage Settlement
Anthony Randazzo
February 28, 2012, 8:23am - FHFA Puts the U.S. Rental Market in Crosshairs
Anthony Randazzo
February 27, 2012, 3:13pm - More Details on Bank's Limited Contribution to the $26 Billion Settlement
Anthony Randazzo
February 27, 2012, 7:21am - A Highly Unjust Mortgage Settlement
Whatever justice may appear to have resulted from banks shelling out a few billion dollars, it should not come at the expense of those mortgage investors or taxpayers who did nothing wrong or the economy at large.
Anthony Randazzo
February 27, 2012 - How Justice Broke Down in the Mortgage Settlement
Anthony Randazzo
February 23, 2012, 5:06pm - How Does HUD Secretary Donovan Misunderstand So Much About Housing?
Anthony Randazzo
February 21, 2012, 7:09pm - Mortgage Settlement Misses All the Points
Anthony Randazzo
February 17, 2012, 9:01am - A Robo-Signing Deal That Has Almost Nothing to Do with Robo-Signing
How robo-signing victims got the short end of the stick
Anthony Randazzo
February 16, 2012 - LA Times Misreports the Mortgage Settlement Story
Anthony Randazzo
February 12, 2012, 12:32pm - Housing Bubble Over? Hardly
Anthony Randazzo
February 9, 2012, 2:20pm - House Passes Legislation Putting the GSEs on Budget
Anthony Randazzo
February 8, 2012, 3:41pm - Obama's Next Bailout
Home flippers get a sweetheart deal from the government.
Anthony Randazzo
February 6, 2012 - New at Reason: The Revamped HAMP and Some Corrections for the Record
Anthony Randazzo
February 3, 2012, 4:35pm - President’s “New” New Refi Plan Turns Out to Be Secret Stimulus
Anthony Randazzo
February 2, 2012, 2:38pm
Housing, Mortgages, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Blog
- Federal Privatization Update (4/15)
- ANALYSIS: Privatization of Financial Regulation is Not Impossible (4/15)
- How Obama’s Plan to Encourage Homeownership Will Hurt the Poor the Most (4/3)
- Unmasking the Mortgage Interest Deduction - Update 2012 (12/12)
- Thinking about Foreclosures and the Fauxcovery (10/24)
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