A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law....

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Republicans insist that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "were the main cause of the nation's current financial turmoil” but a look at the data sh

In 2007, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo set out to investigate whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchased home mortgages bas

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Ben Hallman recommends financial reform news from around the web....

The American Enterprise Institute offered a plan today to eliminate the “bubble-inducing distortion” it blames for the recent financial cris

BofA settles big investors' complaints about Countrywide mortgage-backed loans

Subprime mortgages and America's road to financial ruin

S&P and other credit rating firms wield as much political clout as financial