I have a marriage, as you said, of 30 years with the same person. Fanny said that my marriage was so stable because I spent more timewith her than with my husband. Maybe so, but we've been without her for a few years now.
newspaper about how Brookshire Hathaway, which still has a AAA rating, is paying more to borrow money than Croup or than Fanny May. Why? Well, because the government is subsidizing these companies. So now it's more expensive for other people. and probably a lot ofother people can't get credit at all because that credit is being diverted from the government to other companies that should be going
Loans from Banks so banks have cash to make more home loans in in the beginning Fanny May uh only did government sponsored loans so Angelo had to make those loans and sell those to Fanny Mayit was a very low margin business so he was always watching for for
Libertarians blame this crisis on Fanny May and Freddy Mack and the reason is from their perspective Fanny May and Freddy Mack were created by the government and then they were privatized but they were still regulated by thegovernment and so people who believe in free markets think that they had an unfair Advantage by being sort of Quasi government backed in
Street and you can read about it in our book which I hope you all share but it is important to understand where Fanny make uh came from uh and you're you're you're going to find that allroads lead back to the Great Depression now there's been a lot of talk about this credit crisis and will
uncertain terms that it is not the fault of Fanny and Freddy that we are in a Global Credit crisis Fanny May and Freddy Mack have always been Limited in the size and the kinds of loans they can buy mostly the people with good credit who pay their bills the most recent um reports that showed how many people 90 days behind on
My kitchen's so embarrassing. But Marion Cunningham's "Fanny Farmer Cookbook"-- awesome.
This is what I learned, and so I thought, what better way to make a contribution, just like my heroes who had made contributions previously-- Fanny Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, all of those folks had made previous contributions to the community. I wanted to do the same thing in my own way.
first is the talk with this spectacular person we've been trying to get for a while, and the second is that we're celebrating it here at the Fanny Mikey National Theater. So, thank you to Marta for lending us this space. We're the Google Colombia office, and thank you for sharing with us all those ideas about the theater festival to
reduce or relax regulations that might have made it possible for us to understand the Ponzi scheme that that company was Fanny and Freddy last year spent in the first six months $900,000 lobbying Congress to avoid regulations that might have led us to understand better exactly the catastrophe they were
But to really sort of give you the background and the context, I have to show you a picture of this woman. This is Fanny Ann Eddy. She was a very prominent activist in Sierra Leone.
lobe started Countrywide in those days he sold the loans he made to Fanny May um how many people here know what exactly Fanny May is and what it does let me see a show show fans one more show oh all right maybe a fourth uh
people with good credit who pay their bills the most recent um reports that showed how many people 90 days behind on their mortgages showed Fanny May and Freddy Mack both at close to 1% The Mortgage Bankers Association figures from June which are the most recent showed that for all people with
be at 30% so get this through your head the next time you hear some pundit saying it's Fanny May and Freddy May's fault kick your TV uh or call up the show uh and help us get the word out there don't confuse the the issue the culprit is Wall
about the equivalent of the national debt of those 5 trillion are owned or guaranteed by Fanny May and Freddy Mack Banks probably hold two to three trillion on their books and the other two to three trillion are the bonds that the Wall Street firms made and sold so in in other words think about this
eventually basically anyway the last two points were just Fanny May and Freddy Mack were privatized uh and spun off and in 1970 they were allowed to buy a wider array of mortgages not just government back loans like the
And so one of the t-shirts-- I always wore a fanny pack. And anybody can wear a fanny pack. But if you own it, and the fanny pack is your thing, and you've got all your trinkets in there, and you wear it when you're in competition or doing
I don't remember any nagging. I'm remember when the-- Fanny from La Sanctuaire showed it to me seven or eight years ago.
the choices are complicated, but I think that ultimately, traveling for 15 years with Fanny taught me... I want to tell you how it was. I started traveling with Fanny . The first time we traveled together, we
I went to a conference about violence in Third World communities and she gave a speech about a friend of hers who had been murdered in Sierra Leone in the offices of the LGBT Association there and happened to be Fanny Ann Eddy. So when I returned to Chicago, I decided that I would drive to Toronto and I would interview this woman.
And this was the first interview that I took for the None on Record project. I was very connected with Fanny Ann Eddy who founded the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association. She did a lot of activist work internationally.
one of the things I admire most about her is this firm foundation of beliefs, she doesn't budge from them. Two days ago, a couple of us visited the Edible Schoolyard and then we ended by having lunch at Café Fanny , and one of us was talking about what we do, we change our menus everyday and Alice simply looked at him and said, "Why? Why do you change your menus every day?" She said, "I could eat some of the dishes we make here every day, they are so good." And it is this simplicity that I so admire in her. She's also here to
talk shows you've probably heard certain Republicans or Libertarians blame this crisis on Fanny May and Freddy Mack and the reason is from their perspective Fanny May and Freddy Mack were created by the government and then they were privatized but they were still regulated by the
And I was quite looking forward to the physical experience, as well. Obviously, not the fanny tearing and all of that. But I was looking forward to giving birth and surprising myself in a good way.
We might go on tour in the summer if it's possible for bands to tour in a safe way. So now you can go on YouTube and you can find Fanny in the '70s, there was The Pleasure Seekers, Goldie
But yeah, it is great having Tim. There's a lot of cargo shorts and fanny packs.
I went into all these creative exercises that made the brand come to life. And so one of the t-shirts-- I always wore a fanny pack. And anybody can wear a fanny pack.
I started to make that part of my brand. So I have this t-shirt that has a silkscreened fanny pack on it. And people really wanted that t-shirt because they're like, oh is that a functional fanny pack.
something very important, especially in a city where things are happening the way they are today. When Fanny created the festival in 1988, the most advanced things happening in this city were n't even flamenco, Spanish dance,
let me see a show show fans one more show oh all right maybe a fourth uh which is good I will get more into fannye later but Fanny May is a a government agency that buys Home Loans from Banks so banks have cash to make more home loans in in the beginning
happened uh last last month the the government stepped in and took them back um but I want to express to you in no uh uncertain terms that it is not the fault of Fanny and Freddy that we are in a Global Credit crisis Fanny May and Freddy Mack have always been Limited in the size and the kinds of loans they can buy mostly the
enough we needed more because Banks didn't have Capital during the Great Depression so the government created the Federal National Mortgage Association known as Fanny May to buy the FHA loans and hold them all right so Fanny May would issue bonds just straightforward bonds not mortgage back
created the Federal National Mortgage Association known as Fanny May to buy the FHA loans and hold them all right so Fanny May would issue bonds just straightforward bonds not mortgage back Securities and use that debt to invest in FHA loans and and by doing that created the
billion in in charges so they're still they've written down their assets on on this stuff like 50 million dollar and we so if wall Street's not buying we're relying on Fanny May and Freddy Mack
And anybody can wear a fanny pack. But if you own it, and the fanny pack is your thing, and you've got all your trinkets in there, and you wear it when you're in competition or doing your craft.
And people really wanted that t-shirt because they're like, oh is that a functional fanny pack. No, its just a goofy fanny pack. But it has your logo on it.
we're interested in what needs to be done to promote an event of such magnitude, and who is the person behind it all? The person is Marta. The vision was Fanny Mikey, at the time, Anamarta, who has worked hand in hand with her for 15 years. Fanny Mikey has been the director of the theater festival for three years, four years in total.
But anyway, the last thing I'm going to tell you, and to start this talk, is that when you think of the brand, you always think of Fanny Mikey, but deep down they are very different people. They've been married for over 30 years, they have help, they are very family-oriented. So, we would like to understand a little bit about where, at what moment, the
I, in 1996 I was working at France and after a year I took three months off and just traveled. And so, I've found inspiration in old Fanny Farmer cookbooks and you know just translating older cook books to see kind
simply because it makes it easier for members to raise money to get back to office or people on the left focus on a different set of issues for example the recent financial disasters from Enron to Fanny and Freddy to the collapse on Wall Street these are disasters that have from the perspective of people on the
and spread over everything um and uh what what what the theory would suggest and Exchange Commission uh I mentioned the homeowners loan corporation whose successor was Fanny May uh all these things are still with
important to keep costs low I would like to segue here into explaining uh a little bit more about Fanny and Freddy and I would like to uh share with you some uh frustration that Paul and I
billion in in charges so they're still they've written down their assets on on this stuff like 50 million dollar and we make more money except if the asset goes down leverage can kill you finally Fanny May and Freddy Mack
billion in in charges so they're still they've written down their assets on on this stuff like 50 million dollar and we are more important now than they ever were if it wasn't for Fanny May and Freddy Mack you couldn't get a home loan
You'd find it on money belts, essentially the fanny packs of the 1910s, as well as tobacco pouches and rubber boots.
And I wore a very misshapen pillow here, and then a big old fanny pack, and a mullet.
had none, right? And so or or Fanny Liu Hamer or Ella Baker or Joanne Robinson.
So I have this t-shirt that has a silkscreened fanny pack on it. And people really wanted that t-shirt because they're like, oh is that a functional fanny pack. No, its just a goofy fanny pack.
traveling for 15 years with Fanny taught me... I want to tell you how it was. I started traveling with Fanny . The first time we traveled together, we went to New York. I hadn't told her that I speak English; I'm
government, it's sometimes much harder at that moment. It must be difficult when there's a change of government, but what happens when there's a change of director? When Fanny Mikey died, the big question was what would happen to the festival, but she arrived at a brand, she gave it a total turnaround, but I didn't focus on what the strategy was, as you said, to maintain the success of the