One of the most unsettling facets of federal finance is the way the government devalues past investments.
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That does not go for Theo Waigel, the Bavarian party's chairman and federal finance minister, but he feels obliged to be tough on the 3% issue (tougher, indeed, than the Maastricht treaty requires) to avoid being outflanked by Mr Stoiber, his arch-rival.
When the dollar is linked to gold, the Federal Reserve cannot finance federal government deficits by printing excessive amounts of money.
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On August 9, a federal district court judge in California ruled (PDF) that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) violated federal law when it decided, without public notice or opportunity for stakeholders to comment, in July 2010, not to underwrite mortgages on homes with property assessed clean energy (PACE) loans.
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Spokeswomen for the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Treasury Department declined to comment.
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency is currently contemplating ways to distribute housing rick amongst the private sector.
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On Tuesday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the regulator for Fannie and Freddie, announced its own sweeping plan.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the new GSE regulator created by the housing bill, has placed new CEOs in charge of both firms.
Still up on the U.S. economic front, the Federal Housing Finance Agency's March home price index is to be released at 9 a.m.
Until now, the Federal Housing Finance Agency has maintained that the current housing-rescue programs offered by the taxpayer-supported mortgage companies are less-expensive options.
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Bharara is joined by the Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
They are regulated, indeed controlled, by the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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But the Treasury's power over the pair is limited as long as they remain under the control of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, an independent agency.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency is nearing a decision on whether to allow the companies to participate in the debt-forgiveness program that it consistently has resisted.
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It will not be known how much money the Walker campaign raised -- or how quickly it burned through it -- until October 15, when the federal campaign finance reports are made public.
Meanwhile, the Federal Housing Finance Agency's February home-price index showed a monthly rise of 0.7% in February, while new-home sales for March rose 1.5% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 417, 000.
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In 2011, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (regulator of Freddie and Fannie) sued 17 financial firms for misrepresenting the quality of mortgage backed securities sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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By contrast, some other indexes based on more recent data, such as that from the Federal Housing Finance Agency and private sources such as John Burns Real Estate Consulting, show a nascent recovery.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the companies' conservator, directed Fannie and Freddie to delist their shares, which they expect to be traded in the over-the-counter market under tickers that have yet to be assigned.
In economic news, home prices increased less than economists had expected in January, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, leaving sales of previously owned properties at the highest level in more than three years.
Local governments across the country either scuttled or chose not to offer residential PACE programs after the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) ruled, in July 2010, it would not underwrite mortgages on homes with PACE liens.
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Kim escaped jail time at his March 9 sentencing for violations of federal campaign finance law, but he still awaits the verdict of two other juries: his House colleagues and the voters of California's 41st District.
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In a speech in Las Vegas on October 24, President Obama promised that the Federal Housing Finance Agency would prod banks to give homeowners who are under water with their Fannie and Freddie mortgages an opportunity to refinance.
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The Federal Housing Finance Administration revealed Monday that it plans to establish a new business entity that will be jointly owned by the two and geared toward creating a new securitization infrastructure, essentially merging certain back-office functions of the two companies.
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At the beginning of the month, the Federal Housing Finance Agency took the first official step in a plan circulating since the fall: allowing investors to buy pools of foreclosed homes backed by the government and turn them into rental units.
Last month, I directed my economic team to work with the Federal Housing Finance Agency -- or FHFA -- and their partners in the housing industry to identify barriers to refinancing, knock those barriers down, and explore every option available to help many American homeowners to refinance.
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But, had Edwards been convicted of violations of federal campaign finance laws for accepting donations meant to cover up his affair, an untold number of candidates for political office would find themselves vulnerable to the whims of the Department of Justice and would face prosecution for activity that would seem in no way illegal.
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The restriction had another purpose: making it impossible for the federal government to finance its activities with a printing press.
Mr Fox has wrested both money and power away from the federal government to finance innovations in areas such as education, health care, agriculture and micro-credit.
The parade of parvenus is the strange but direct result of federal campaign-finance laws that set limits on the amount of money most candidates can raise from any single donor.
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