thestatedtruth.com | November 8, 2011
It’s the gift that keeps taking…. Fannie Mae has now borrowed $111.6 billion from the government, and paid back a mere $17 billion in forced dividends. Freddie Mac has taken more than $71 billion in aid and paid back around $15 billion. The net cost to the taxpayers for bailing out both now stands at […]
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thestatedtruth.com | June 1, 2011
Chris is one of the top real estate and banking minds for institutional money. Chris Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics: “If we do not see a meaningful recovery in home prices by the end of the year, we may need to contemplate impairment charges on first liens owned by banks and wholesale write-downs of second […]
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Tags: fannie mae, Fredie Mac, Put Backs, Real Estate
thestatedtruth.com | April 20, 2011
This just in from S&P, which does a follow up to its earlier U.S. outlook warning, and revises its GSE and FHLB outlook to negative. Let’s remember that this is happening in an economic (supposed) recovery. NEW YORK (Standard & Poor’s) April 20, 2011–Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said today that it revised its outlooks on […]
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Tags: fannie mae, farm credit, Fderal home loan bank, freddie mac, GSE
thestatedtruth.com | November 4, 2010
That flushing sound you hear is just more money down the toilet! Two weeks ago, the FHFA, using Moody’s assumptions and modelling, said that a worst case scenario for Fannie and Freddie could result in total costs to taxpayers of $363 billion, an incremental $220 billion to the $148 billion already spent to keep the […]
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thestatedtruth.com | October 21, 2010
The regulator for Fannie is set to get litigious ….. OCTOBER 21, 2010 By NICK TIMIRAOS The federal regulator overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac hired a law firm specializing in litigation as the agency considers how to move forward with efforts to recoup billions of dollars on soured mortgage-backed securities purchased from banks and […]
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thestatedtruth.com | October 21, 2010
These two giant white elephants funded more than 62 percent of new mortgages in the first half of this year, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, a trade publication in Bethesda, Maryland. It would seem that they some how managed to  loose money on every mortgage funded! Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the mortgage-finance companies operating under […]
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Tags: fannie mae, freddie mac, mortgages