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If you are looking for the fallout from the Fannie and Freddie Nightmare on Wall Street, look no further than Gateway Financial and Midwest Banc. These two regional banks have nearly one-third of their tangible net worth tied up in GSE preferred stock, which is now worthless.On August 29th, Business Week reported that these [...]
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Gateway Financial and Midwest Banc have one-third of capital in Fannie and Freddie Preferreds
Sep
Freddie and Fannie taken over by US government
Sep
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The U.S. government has finally stepped in to stop the bleeding. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two giant government sponsored enterprises have been taken into conservatorship and are now government property. As I consider this move a bankruptcy, I will add these two to my list of Global Banking Bankruptcies. These [...]
Freddie and Fannie are getting nationalized
Sep
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A prediction I first broached here in May in my post Question: How is Fannie Mae a AAA company? is finally coming to pass: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are getting nationalized.
UPDATE: The U.S. Government takeover is now a done deal. See my post on the details of the merger with a [...]
Quote of the day: China hopping mad about GSEs
Aug
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At the end of last week, the warning came. The Chinese officially warned Hank Paulson et al. that they better get their act together on Fannie and Freddie. The Chinese own a ton of GSE paper and they would be hopping mad to see their investments lose value.
The implicit threat is that the Chinese [...]
Caroline Baum: Fannie and Freddie need better makeovers
Jul
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Caroline Baum is one of the more insightful financial market pundits around. In her column she takes aim at Fannie and their private reward, public risk corporate setup. Basically, the Fannie-Freddie bailout is a simple case of “heads and management wins, tails and taxpayers lose.”
Two weeks ago, with their stock prices plummeting and [...]
Is the short covering rally over?
Jul
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The day is almost over for the market (thank goodness) and it seems that financal service investors are in panic mode again. The market is down over 250 points and some shares in financial services are down over 15%. What gives?
As we may soon find out, non-market based economic solutions, like the infamous SEC [...]
HBOS versus Freddie and Fannie
Jul
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the housing bailout bill helping troubled mortgage borrowers, but also giving the U.S. Treasury Department a blank check to support Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The New York Times describes it this way:
Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts and a primary author of the legislation, [...]
Senator Bunning blasts Bernanke at Senate hearing
Jul
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Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) blasted Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who was giving the semiannual monetary policy report before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee today. His comments were the sharpest I heard throughout the hearing. The hearing is expected to be brief in order to make time for a later joint hearing with [...]
Moody’s Cuts GSE Preferred Stock Ratings
Jul
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This is just a step en route to nationalization. We are seeing a spiral down that will mean the U.S. Government will eventually step in. These organizations will fail without government support and they are too big to fail.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had their bank financial strength and preferred stock ratings cut [...]
Paulson Sunday Statement on Fannie and Freddie
Jul
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From Bloomberg:
Paulson Statement on Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae: Full Text
July 13 (Bloomberg) — Following is the text of a statement issued today by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson:
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac play a central role in our housing finance system and must continue to [...]
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