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Long video, but it has made me a huge fan of Josh Rosner
"...reform proposal more attractive before it goes to the full Senate for a vote (it would be surprising if they couldn’t get the bill out of committee)..."
Are you nervous for the vote on tuesday?
25$ million worth at a price around 3.5 I believe
Hahahaha great post
You don't know how it will be amended though? How could it be bad if you don't know what it is?
Reported :)
Welcome to the interwebz, where loling is much kinder than other strings of characters.
Lol you got out on minuscule volume (at low of day) as it's going down by pennies and you're hoping for a 3.70 drop?
Let him be pessimistic. He doesn't have any effect on my sweet fannie :)
Hahaha
Touch 4.06 and the psar(0.01, 0.1) flips :) goo fannie!
I like how all these finance companies are putting "backed with implicit govt guarantee" looks like they're trying to make it clear that it's the only way as well. IMO
You know what happens when you ass-u-me right? :)
When and where did he say this lol. He's not invested in the companies is all I heard. He can keep his coke.
It'll be nice if we can close that gap and trigger a PSAR flip :) do the whole two birds with one stone thing
That is new news to me! And great news imo
What time was this posted at?
Is there a conference call tomorrow with fairholme's discovery process?
Stay above da 50 fannie
Right now
"The greatest accounting scandal in corporate history" and after that it's something about why owning a home isn't the "end all, be all".
I get a bad feeling of what's coming up on cnbc right now
Hahaha
hahahaha
Stalemate on the Hill may spare Fannie and Freddie from reform
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/21/stalemate-on-the-hill-may-spare-fannie-and-freddie/
I like this article.
I don't think you read the whole thing... It suggests passing hensarling's bill
Fannie and Freddie 2.0: The Senate Does Not Get the Government Out of the Market
April 18, 2014
By John L. Ligon and Norbert J. Michel, Ph.D.
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In an effort to reform the nation’s housing finance system, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D–SD) and ranking member Mike Crapo (R–ID) have announced that they will hold a markup for their bill on April 29, but many details still have to be ironed out.
Given that close to 100 percent of the U.S. mortgage market is now backed by the federal government, it is good that the Senate Banking Committee wants to improve the Johnson–Crapo proposal. However, the approach being taken by Johnson–Crapo and a similar bill by Senators Bob Corker (R–TN) and Mark Warner (D–VA) would ensure that U.S. mortgage markets are slightly remodeled rather than completely reformed. The government would be at least as involved in these markets as it was prior to the 2008 crash.
The Pre-Crisis GSE System
Prior to the 2008 crisis, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were referred to as government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) because they were quasi-private corporations.[1] Though they had the implicit backing of the federal government, they also had private shareholders who stood to lose the capital they had invested in the companies. The GSEs purchased mortgages from banks and then packaged them into mortgage-backed securities (MBS).
The GSEs then provided guarantees of principal and interest payments on these MBS, and markets generally assumed that taxpayers would pick up the tab if the GSEs got into trouble. If only a handful of mortgages backing a Fannie Mae MBS defaulted, Fannie covered investors’ losses out of its own profits. On mortgages that had down payments of at least 20 percent, Fannie covered all the losses. For those home loans with less than a 20 percent down payment, however, the GSEs required private mortgage insurance (PMI). PMI companies, in turn, were typically private insurance companies.
In other words, any mortgage with less than 20 percent down in a GSE-issued MBS had at least two sources of private capital to cover losses. The PMI company insured a portion of any mortgage default costs, and the GSEs covered losses not covered by the PMI companies. As long as losses remained “normal” and there was no massive shock to the system, taxpayers were never on the hook for any of these losses.
The 2008 crisis was far from normal, and it proved that the “implied” taxpayer backing was real. The crash also proved that the private capital held in the GSEs was too low to cover those losses. Additionally, many PMI companies had too little capital to cover their losses. Many PMI firms—mostly regulated by state agencies—either failed or were given a reprieve from their capital requirements during the crisis.[2] GSE shareholders lost their capital and are currently embroiled in a legal battle with the U.S. Treasury over the details of the taxpayer bailout.[3]
Post Crisis and the Senate’s GSE Reform Approach
Aside from any implications regarding the shareholder lawsuits, the problem with the new approach in the Senate is that it would barely change the public–private nature of the pre-crisis GSE system. The Johnson–Crapo bill, for example, requires a “first-loss” position of 10 percent for private “guarantors” of MBS but then waives the requirement in the event of a crisis.
Though there are several roadblocks, even in a crisis, to using taxpayer funds to cover MBS losses, the rules make clear that the federal government will pick up 90 percent of losses if there is a crisis. This arrangement is only nominally different from the old system because taxpayers were never required to cover losses unless those shortfalls were catastrophic. The GSEs were effectively “private” guarantors that everyone assumed would be covered in a crisis. The system now envisioned in the Senate would have “private” guarantors that know they are covered in a crisis.
Relative to the old GSE system, it certainly is true that the bills in the Senate would increase the amount of private capital to cover even catastrophic losses. But the GSEs started out with higher capital requirements, too: Fannie started out with a required leverage ratio of 15 to 1 in 1968, and the company was leveraged as much as 200 to 1 in 2008.[4]
The GSEs capital requirements were watered down over the years mainly in the name of expanding their “affordable housing mission.” There is absolutely no reason to think that the same thing would not happen again if the Senate’s approach is adopted. In fact, the Johnson–Crapo approach would give the guarantors a new safety and soundness regulator that is charged with making sure everyone has “fair access to financial services.”
At best, the approach in the Senate would create a series of smaller quasi-private GSEs with higher capital requirements but with the explicit understanding that any catastrophic losses would be covered by taxpayers. The Senate approach goes much further, though, by creating a new government agency and an intricate new regulatory framework.[5]
What Congress Should Do
Congress should:
Reject the approach being offered in the Senate bills. Both of these bills would provide explicit taxpayer guarantees that are not necessary.
Avoid establishing yet another federal regulator in U.S. financial markets.
Adopt a policy that gets the federal government out of the U.S. housing finance market. Two good examples of such a plan are House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling’s (R–TX) Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners (PATH) Act and Representative Justin Amash’s (R–MI) New Fair Deal Banking and Housing Stability Act.
A Legislative Exercise
The members of the Senate Banking Committee—and especially their staff—deserve credit for taking on such a complex issue. However, the approach being put forward largely recreates the old GSE structure. Why should the nation go through this legislative exercise if the end result will be a system so similar to the one that just imploded? Congress should not leave the government so embedded in the business of housing finance. If lawmakers want to improve the nation’s housing finance system, they should get the government out of these markets.
—John L. Ligon is Senior Policy Analyst and Research Manager in the Center for Data Analysis and Norbert J. Michel, PhD, is a Research Fellow in Financial Regulations in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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dayummm
It's just people being optimistic. Better than pessimistic I suppose?
but you would think there would be at least 1 rogue employee out of the approx 7000 though hey? One that would make an account on ihub or yahoo.
Yeah company business is different from you're own opinions.
Ever since I've invested in this company I have always wondered about the people that actually work at Fannie Mae. How do they feel knowing that politicians are trying to get rid of their jobs, potentially leaving them homeless. Are they invested in Fannie Mae themselves? Why has not even one low level Fannie Mae employee ever contributed to any message board about their thoughts on fannie getting wound down and eliminated? I find that mind boggling.
April showers bring May flowers?
You always post cornell sites. Are you a cornell alum? Know john h Hubbard by any chance?