Please explain to me how two critically undercapitalized (CET1) firms in conservatorship could even dream of making "investments"? And to make matters worse, using their own MBS (cluster risk) to do so? And all this only because the Fed wants to "officially" reduce its more than decade-long manipulation of the yield curve (long end) with quantitative tightening - so as not to completely lose credibility.
FnF would once again be hijacked for politics! Sandra Thompson's charitable distributions from scarce corporate capital, which are actually a government function, have already caused angry protests: