{"id":14318,"date":"2009-08-07T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fannie_mae_seeks_10-7b_in_us_aid_after_2q_loss\/"},"modified":"2009-08-07T05:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T05:00:40","slug":"fannie_mae_seeks_10-7b_in_us_aid_after_2q_loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14318","title":{"rendered":"Fannie Mae seeks $10.7B in US aid after 2Q loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fannie Mae plans to tap $11 billion in new government aid after posting another massive quarterly loss as the taxpayer bill from the housing market bust keeps growing.<\/p>\n<p>The mounting price tag for the rescue of Fannie and its goverment-sponsored sibling, Freddie Mac, is surpassed only by insurer American International Group Inc., which has received $182.5 billion in financial support from the government so far.<\/p>\n<p>Fannie Mae&#8217;s new request for $10.7 billion from the Treasury Department will bring the total for Fannie and Freddie to nearly $96 billion. Freddie is expected to report its quarterly results on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Fannie-Mae-seeks-107B-in-US-apf-3979081619.html?x=0&#038;.v=10\">Ugh. One wonders when the red ink will ever end.  Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fannie Mae plans to tap $11 billion in new government aid after posting another massive quarterly loss as the taxpayer bill from the housing market bust keeps growing. The mounting price tag for the rescue of Fannie and its goverment-sponsored<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14318\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,670,149,600,596,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}