Category Archives: fannie mae

The Ultimate Fix

Much speculation regarding the Future of Housing Finance and the overall housing market around the news lately.  I penned a couple articles for HousingWatch (here and here) on the conference of the same name that took place at The Treasury last month, they’re good prerequisites to whats written below.
While there were many threads of thought that [...]

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Contrived Attrition? Washingtons Play in The Fall and Rise of Wall Street

Many pundits speak about these turbulent times as a recession, depression or somewhere in between.  I personally like to view the glass half full and pronounce this time in our economy’s history as an epic correction.  Times of unprecedented growth are almost assuredly followed by times of unprecedented ’shrinkage’…you know, markets are cyclical in nature, [...]

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I’m Over At AgentGenius Today…

…discussing the Fannie and Freddie Government takeover news…
Image Provided by AgentGenius (Probably Lani)

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More Texas Hold’em With Freddie

The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac poker game is progressing…their chip stacks have diminished substantially but Freddie appears to be calling in a credit marker from the House…
We’ve seen The Flop…which may have been initiated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board almost 6 months ago.

From yesterdays post:
If I’m reading the table correctly, Fannie and Freddie’s [...]

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The Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Poker Game

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s recent Wall Street nose dive is an interesting study in how equity market emotionally charged speculative economics have infected the debt sector.  The whole string of events that have brought things to where they are today also resembles a poker game, where no one shows their hand until the very [...]

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