Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: Where’d those names come from?

Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been in the news recently as the US financial crisis continues.  I’ve always wondered where those unexplicable names came from and today I decided to find out.  Here’s what Wikipedia had to say:

The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) (NYSE: FNM), commonly known as Fannie Mae, [...]

Vancouver tightens screws on homeless paper

The Olympics are really exposing some of the darker impulses in Vancouver.  Now there’s an effort to keep a local paper off the streets.  Megaphone, has been distributed in Vancouver for 16 years.

City of Vancouver staff are recommending that city council force Megaphone, Vancouver’s homeless street paper to register as a [...]