FAP863: More options if you run into financial aid trouble Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Bloomberg: Just three days after the Fed approved a loan against Bear Stearns securities, Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Paul Kanjorski and 31 other lawmakers sent Bernanke a letter asking him to open the discount window to nonbank education-loan companies. Bernanke refused. + [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP863: More options if you run into financial aid trouble", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/08/18/fap863-more-options-if-you-run-into-financial-aid-trouble/" });
Audio|Mon, 18 Aug 2008|More from Financial Aid Podcast Daily Free Internet Radio On Demand
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“…from Bloomberg just three days after the Fed approved a loan against Bear Stearns securities. Pennsylvania democratic representative Paul Kanjorski of 31 of the lawmakers said Bernanke. Such Bernanke a letter asking him to open discount …”
An early look at the market with Financial Editor Dave Caruso.
Audio|Tue, 12 Aug 2008|More from Dave Caruso's Before the Bell
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“…portfolios and their little worried about that. JPMorgan the company that bought Bear Stearns the reported a big write down of four point five billion on the mortgages. Although by today's standards almost seems small as …”
Jim and Margery Podcast for 07/24/08 - Margery talks with financial advisor, Susan Kaplan, about the state of the US economy and the current housing crisis.
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“…was gonna say wizards and quotes but creeps. -- All of Bear Stearns who who constructed these very complicated financial investment instruments. In on the bottom of this whole rotten -- with sub prime mortgage …”
An early look at the Stock Market.
Audio|Wed, 16 Jul 2008|More from Dave Caruso's Before the Bell
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“…Will be in the news but to be questioned by. CEO's of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers about. The Goldman Sachs and in any role in putting pressure on on a distance just before it collapsed. …”
A brief update of the top news of the hour
Audio|Tue, 15 Jul 2008|More from NPR: 7PM ET News Summary Podcast
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“…country in March to government came to the rescue of investment giant Bear Stearns the president was asked whether other institutions these need government help. If your question should the government bailout -- no it shouldn't …”
Stock markets rebounded this morning with the news that the US Treasury and Federal Reserve are taking action to shore up struggling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the dominant providers of funding for home mortgages in the US. Federal regulators are temporarily opening their so-called discount lending window to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We speak with Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at Global Insight, an economic analysis firm. For two months this summer, U.S. and coalition troop deaths in Afghanistan surpassed casualties in Iraq, raising questions about the strength of the Taliban and the NATO forces fighting them. Anna Mulrine, a senior editor at U.S. News and World Report just spent a month with U.S. soldiers and Marines in Afghanistan and joins us to talk about what she saw. This month, commissioners in Cook County, Illinois voted to raise the county's sales tax by a full percentage point - up to 10.25%. The county now has among the nation's highest sales tax rate. Th
Audio|Mon, 14 Jul 2008|More from WBUR: Here and Now Podcast
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“…enough for might Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still collapse the way Bear Stearns did for example. …”
“…something of a hot political issue particularly in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse. But does the government really have any choice here I mean I mean failure of these two institutions is not really …”
(Peter Howe, NECN) - Fannie Mae shares lost about five percent of their value Monday, while Freddie Mac was down more than eight percent. The government chartered companies sold off nearly half their value last week. wall street's confide...
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“…emergency Fed loans available to them dislike for investment banks after the Bear Stearns implosion. President Bush is pushing congress this week to let the treasury extent Fannie and Freddie more credit and even by their …”
(Latoyia Edwards, NECN) - Congressional leaders say they're ready to support federal efforts to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Federal Reserve and the Treasury department have announced plans to stabilize the two struggling mortgag...
Video|Mon, 14 Jul 2008|More from Boston.com
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“…institution back in March. The Treasury Department engineer of the sail up. Bear Stearns and this is huge news this morning Mike. Yes in this was something that had been no speculated on for the past …”
(Latoyia Edwards, NECN) - The United States mortgage lenders are falling on tough times. Investors are quickly losing confidence in the banks and that could soon have a serious negative impact on the nation's already growing hosing crisis....
Video|Mon, 14 Jul 2008|More from Boston.com
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“…four months to rescue a linchpin financial institution in March it was Bear Stearns today the bailout plan is for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. …”
The federal government is throwing a lifeline to the nation's two biggest lenders, who have seen stocks plummet recently. Meanwhile, it's also planning a crackdown on the culprit of the crisis: shady lending practices.
Video|Mon, 14 Jul 2008|More from bos
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“…together a rescue package as it did this spring with investment firm Bear Stearns. . The news also comes as the that prepares to unveil new rules today to protect home buyers from shady lending practices and …”