The movie “The Big Short” — dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis — captures much of Wall Street’s misconduct but ...

A group of 14 senators said that Congress must be briefed before any conservatorship release plans are initiated.

Senate Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), the ranking member of the Banking Committee, called on the Trump administration to halt the reprivatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ...

AI demand is aiding the energy sector, particularly benefiting independent power producers like Constellation Energy, Vistra, ...

Larry Summers has sharply criticized the tax bill by the President Donald Trump administration amid the ongoing feud with Elon Musk.

Fannie and Freddie "buy and package home loans" into mortgage-backed securities that get sold to investors. Currently, those ...

President Trump hinted anew about reprivatizing the US mortgage buyers while suggesting an implicit federal backstop would be ...

Fannie and Freddie’s job as private companies was to buy, insure and repackage mortgages, blessing them on the way with its ...

Privatization of Fannie and Freddie has been on Trump’s to-do list since his first term. FHFA Director Bill Pulte could make ...

Trump recently vowed to relist the government’s shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, federally-backed agencies that purchase ...

Trump appears to be pushing forward with a plan to publicly list shares of government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and ...

Bill Ackman is off to a strong start in 2025 thanks to a winning investment in Fannie Mae, and now his success has attracted ...