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Thursday, July 10 2008, 07:27 PM Today on the presidential campaign trail McCain distances himself from economic adviser who called Americans 'whiners' ... McCain raises $22 million in June; campaign and GOP have $95 million on hand ... Obama, McCain pursue different paths to female voters ... McCain says government can't allow 54 News Stories, 12 Liberal Blogs, 3 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment

Suburban Guerrilla House Of Cards Here comes that big wind that’s going to blow them all away: WASHINGTON (AFP) - A downward spiral for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was unabated Thursday despite reassuring comments from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, as fears grew a

Crooked Timber Fortune Magazine And The N-word Nationalization, that is. In this piece on doomsday scenarios for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (H/T Calculated Risk) the cutely named and quasi-private mortgage packagers and guarantors, Katie Benner saysSo what might it look like if the government had to

Oliver Willis Republican Recession Watch: The Bush Malaise Look, it’s like the Carter presidency… only we’ve got Internet instead of CB radio! Stocks tumbled Friday, with the Dow Jones industrials dipping below the 11,000 mark for the first time in two years, as investors focused on troubles at

legitgov U.s. Weighs Takeover Of Two Mortgage Giants Bush poised to bail out more corpora-terrorists: Senior Bush administration officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of the nation?s two largest mortgage finance companies and place them in a conservatorship if their p

Suburban Guerrilla Socializing Loss, Privatizing Gain Another in a series: WASHINGTON ? Alarmed by the growing financial stress at the nation?s two largest mortgage finance companies, senior Bush administration officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of the companies and

BTC News: If It Says 'News,' It Must Be True Us Border Patrol Goes Headhunting, And Other News Among the trophy and sporting photos in the December/January issue of Outdoor Life is one showing a pair of US Border Patrol agents rappelling down a boulder-strewn slope. The photo is part of a recruiting ad for the Department of Homeland Security’

Think Progress Mccain Campaign Originally Stood By Gramm?s Comments. Earlier today, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign tried to distance itself from top economic adviser Phil Gramm’s claim that America is a “nation of whiners” by claiming Gramm’s words were “not representati

Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip (No Title) NATION OF RETARDS IS BETTER: John McCain’s advisers are more brilliant than you or me or me or you; we know this. That is why — in an election where massive economic despair is easily the biggest issue on unemployed, homeless, bankrupt voters&

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Blogs of War Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson On Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac: No Takeover Planned The stocks are plunging and recent takeover rumors haven’t helped matters: Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, seeking to calm nervous investors about the financial state of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said Friday the government’s primary policy

Asia Times Online Chan Akya : And Now, For Fannie And Freddie The US government, faced with a possible failure of mortgage guarantors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is looking to once again prop up defunct institutions instead of giving up the ghost on such entities. The markets may welcome such efforts, but the implic

Tom Rants Fannie And Freddie's Woes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant Congressionally chartered entities that act as market makers for the resale of mortgages in the United States, are supposedly in trouble. On the verge of failure, in fact, if the whiners in the media are to be believ