{"id":196160,"date":"2008-05-20T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/20\/fannie-mae-plays-politics-which-will-likely-ruin-the-business\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T01:20:00","slug":"fannie-mae-plays-politics-which-will-likely-ruin-the-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/20\/fannie-mae-plays-politics-which-will-likely-ruin-the-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Fannie Mae Plays Politics, Which Will Likely Ruin the Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of a housing crash, with prices still falling, <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/rb\/080516\/fanniemae_downpayments.html?.v=7\">Fannie Mae has reduced down-payment requirements to as low as 3% on some loans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that I can think of is that they hope that this sort of gesture will keep Congress from looking too closely at tighter restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Bad move, because it opens them up to even more risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of a housing crash, with prices still falling, Fannie Mae has reduced down-payment requirements to as low as 3% on some loans. The only thing that I can think of is that they hope that this sort of gesture will keep Congress from looking too closely at tighter restrictions. Bad move, because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1004,978,1088,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-finance","category-politics","category-real-estate","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}