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	<title>Comments on: Think Enron Was Bad? &#8216;Fredron&#8217; and &#8216;Fanron&#8217; May Be Worse</title>
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		<title>By: BizzyBlog &#187; Has the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy Bottomed Out?</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/think-enron-was-bad-fredron-and-fanron-may-be-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-226278</link>
		<dc:creator>BizzyBlog &#187; Has the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy Bottomed Out?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] in September when the decades-in-the-making Democratic debacles at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (aka Fanron and Fredron) came to a head, forcing those &#8220;government-sponsored enterprises&#8221; to become [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] in September when the decades-in-the-making Democratic debacles at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (aka Fanron and Fredron) came to a head, forcing those &#8220;government-sponsored enterprises&#8221; to become [...]</p>
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		<title>By: BizzyBlog &#187; Obama&#8217;s Dangerous Appearance As Community Organizer in Chief</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/think-enron-was-bad-fredron-and-fanron-may-be-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-169230</link>
		<dc:creator>BizzyBlog &#187; Obama&#8217;s Dangerous Appearance As Community Organizer in Chief</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] high-tax postures of Pelosi, Obama, and Reid continued, and the decades-in-the-making crackups at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became obvious. Those Democratic-driven failures at Fan and Fred marked the beginning of the [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] high-tax postures of Pelosi, Obama, and Reid continued, and the decades-in-the-making crackups at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became obvious. Those Democratic-driven failures at Fan and Fred marked the beginning of the [...]</p>
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		<title>By: BizzyBlog &#187; That Giant SUCKUP Sound</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/think-enron-was-bad-fredron-and-fanron-may-be-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-154856</link>
		<dc:creator>BizzyBlog &#187; That Giant SUCKUP Sound</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] leading to untold billions of dollars in troubled and foreclosed loans. Also alternatively known as Fanron and Fredron, their resulting insolvency brought the financial-sector mess to a head several months ago. Having [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] leading to untold billions of dollars in troubled and foreclosed loans. Also alternatively known as Fanron and Fredron, their resulting insolvency brought the financial-sector mess to a head several months ago. Having [...]</p>
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		<title>By: BizzyBlog &#187; The POR Economy: I Had NO Idea How Poor</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/think-enron-was-bad-fredron-and-fanron-may-be-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-131532</link>
		<dc:creator>BizzyBlog &#187; The POR Economy: I Had NO Idea How Poor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] conventional mortgage financing. Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (aka Fanron and Fredron) also responded to these legal pressures by lowering credit-score thresholds for subprime and [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] conventional mortgage financing. Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (aka Fanron and Fredron) also responded to these legal pressures by lowering credit-score thresholds for subprime and [...]</p>
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		<title>By: BizzyBlog &#187; The Fire Inside the Smoking Gun at Fan and Fred</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/think-enron-was-bad-fredron-and-fanron-may-be-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-116229</link>
		<dc:creator>BizzyBlog &#187; The Fire Inside the Smoking Gun at Fan and Fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] reminder, from this BizzyBlog post, and this Pajamas Media column, a few weeks ago: Fredron and [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] reminder, from this BizzyBlog post, and this Pajamas Media column, a few weeks ago: Fredron and [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Calanda-Technology.Com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Channeling Carl Sagan (x 100&#8217;s); Cramer&#8217;s About-Face; The Fred-Fan Specifics; Other Blame</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/think-enron-was-bad-fredron-and-fanron-may-be-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-109551</link>
		<dc:creator>Calanda-Technology.Com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Channeling Carl Sagan (x 100&#8217;s); Cramer&#8217;s About-Face; The Fred-Fan Specifics; Other Blame</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the biggest factor that brought on the financial mess. It&#8217;s a reprise of the final portion of my Pajamas Media column of September 9 (mirrored here at BizzyBlog on the 11th), accompanied by a graphic that I [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the biggest factor that brought on the financial mess. It&#8217;s a reprise of the final portion of my Pajamas Media column of September 9 (mirrored here at BizzyBlog on the 11th), accompanied by a graphic that I [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Calanda-Technology.Com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Channeling Carl Sagan (x 100&#8217;s); Cramer&#8217;s About-Face; The Fred-Fan Specifics</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/think-enron-was-bad-fredron-and-fanron-may-be-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-109518</link>
		<dc:creator>Calanda-Technology.Com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Channeling Carl Sagan (x 100&#8217;s); Cramer&#8217;s About-Face; The Fred-Fan Specifics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the biggest factor that brought on the financial mess. It&#8217;s a reprise of the final portion of my Pajamas Media column of September 9 (mirrored here at BizzyBlog on the 11th), accompanied by a graphic that I [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the biggest factor that brought on the financial mess. It&#8217;s a reprise of the final portion of my Pajamas Media column of September 9 (mirrored here at BizzyBlog on the 11th), accompanied by a graphic that I [...]</p>
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		<title>By: BizzyBlog &#187; Channeling Carl Sagan (x 100&#8217;s); Cramer&#8217;s About-Face; The Fred-Fan Specifics</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/think-enron-was-bad-fredron-and-fanron-may-be-worse/comment-page-1/#comment-109486</link>
		<dc:creator>BizzyBlog &#187; Channeling Carl Sagan (x 100&#8217;s); Cramer&#8217;s About-Face; The Fred-Fan Specifics</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the biggest factor that brought on the financial mess. It&#8217;s a reprise of the final portion of my Pajamas Media column of September 9 (mirrored here at BizzyBlog on the 11th), accompanied by a graphic that I [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Shocked!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shocked!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>freddie &amp; Fannie were notorious for their heavy Washington lobbying. They bought the support of Congressmen &amp; Senators who managed to get onto the financial oversight committees so that they would be in a position to collect campaign financing from Wall street that wanted to make sure that no real regulation would take place. Fan &amp; Fred have have been loading up on risky mortgages for ages, under-stating the risks largely to increase their stock price so that their CEO&#039;s can pay themselves tens of millions of dollars in salary &amp; stock options. Now they are essentially insolvent, as the principal itself is in question. There was widespread criticism of this year after year. Why was nothing done? Answer is below:

&quot;Capital must protect itself in every way....Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When trough a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily Governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the Central power leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the-common herd.&quot;__JP Morgan</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>freddie &amp; Fannie were notorious for their heavy Washington lobbying. They bought the support of Congressmen &amp; Senators who managed to get onto the financial oversight committees so that they would be in a position to collect campaign financing from Wall street that wanted to make sure that no real regulation would take place. Fan &amp; Fred have have been loading up on risky mortgages for ages, under-stating the risks largely to increase their stock price so that their CEO&#8217;s can pay themselves tens of millions of dollars in salary &amp; stock options. Now they are essentially insolvent, as the principal itself is in question. There was widespread criticism of this year after year. Why was nothing done? Answer is below:</p>
<p>&#8220;Capital must protect itself in every way&#8230;.Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When trough a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily Governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the Central power leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the-common herd.&#8221;__JP Morgan</p>
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		<title>By: Herb</title>
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		<dc:creator>Herb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m glad the CEOs lost their jobs, but they should have lost their executive pay packages.  You shouldn&#039;t get rewarded for stewarding your company into the biggest government takeover in history.  Not only little bit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m glad the CEOs lost their jobs, but they should have lost their executive pay packages.  You shouldn&#8217;t get rewarded for stewarding your company into the biggest government takeover in history.  Not only little bit.</p>
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