Fannie Mae-No Politics (FNMA)

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"Unlike earlier housing finance reform proposals, the Mulvaney bill does not phase out Fannie or Freddie,” wrote The Wall Street Journal in May. “Rather, it requires both companies to retain earnings to build capital until their capitalization reaches 5 percent of assets. They would be released from conservatorship when capital reaches 2.5 percent of assets.”

Not only would this reverse the existing government policy, which annually reduces the capital cushions received by each company until hitting zero in 2018, but it also cancels the requirement that the companies pay a dividend to the treasury department every fiscal quarter. The government’s shares (which the bill would cancel) have a liquidation preference of $187 billion (appropriately), but last year the GSEs only paid dividends amounting to $15.8 billion to the treasury department. Since 2012 a change to the bailout agreements required companies to pay nearly all of their profits to the treasury department, and Mulvaney’s bill would effectively nullify this as well.

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/22/donald-trumps-budget-directors-fannie-mae-and-freddy-mac-bill-would-socialize-risk-and-privatize-profit/