Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and…

“If you could really insure banks and other lenders against default risk, that might well unleash a great wave of capital into the economy.”

— Gillian Tett

It is wrong when we, in effect, throw safe and sound financial institutions into the same category with banks and lenders that climbed too…

— Amy Klobuchar

Because reverse mortgages do not require borrowers to make immediate repayments, the interest charges are added to the debt every day, and the total…

— Charles Duhigg

In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.

— Charles Duhigg

Fannie Mae has traditionally only bought and sold mortgages. But when a loan held by the company goes into foreclosure, Fannie Mae gains ownership…

— Charles Duhigg

As the United States has become an older nation, reverse mortgages have grown into a $20-billion-a-year industry, with elderly homeowners taking out more than…

— Charles Duhigg

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— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

— Christina Romer

The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take…

— Jeff Bezos

Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also…

— Franklin Raines

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts,…

— George Osborne

And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80…

— Bob Diamond

Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too…

— Dave Brat

When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very different way of looking at the world and…

— Melissa De Sousa