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  2. Fannie May - Wikipedia

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    Fannie May Confection Brands, Inc. is an American chocolate manufacturer headquartered in Chicago and currently owned by multinational company Ferrero SpA. [1] Fannie May manufactures a broad variety of products including enrobed, barks, caramels, squares, berries, twist wrapped, molded, flow wrapped, and boxed chocolates.

  3. Fannie Mae - Wikipedia

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    Fannie Mae. The Federal National Mortgage Association ( FNMA ), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a United States government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) and, since 1968, a publicly traded company. Founded in 1938 during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal, [ 2] the corporation's purpose is to expand the secondary mortgage market by ...

  4. Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - Wikipedia

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    Fannie Mae's former headquarters at 3900 Wisconsin Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C. In September 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that it would take over the Federal National Mortgage Association ( Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation ( Freddie Mac ). Both government-sponsored enterprises, which ...

  5. What is Fannie Mae? All about America’s big mortgage ... - AOL

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    Fannie Mae, officially the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), is a government-sponsored enterprise that maintains liquidity in the mortgage market by buying loans from banks and ...

  6. Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis

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    Fannie Mae was the biggest buyer of Countrywide's mortgages. [ 207 ] On September 10, 2003, U.S. Congressman Ron Paul gave a speech to Congress in which he argued that the then-current government policies encouraged lending to people who couldn't afford to pay the money back, and he predicted that this would lead to a bailout, and he introduced ...

  7. Why Fannie Mae Failed: Ex-CEO Blames Conflicting Mandates - AOL

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    In 2003, the amount of private-label securities issued was about half that of Fannie Mae's, but in 2004, dollar volumes of private-label securities increased dramatically, exceeding the levels of ...

  8. Mortgage industry of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The mortgage industry of the United States is a major financial sector. The federal government created several programs, or government sponsored entities, to foster mortgage lending, construction and encourage home ownership. These programs include the Government National Mortgage Association (known as Ginnie Mae), the Federal National Mortgage ...

  9. Government National Mortgage Association - Wikipedia

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    The Government National Mortgage Association ( GNMA ), or Ginnie Mae, is a government-owned corporation of the United States Federal Government within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). [1] It was founded in 1968 and works to expand affordable housing by guaranteeing housing loans ( mortgages) thereby lowering financing ...