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Obama to Create New Freddie and Fannie; Uh - Oh
Topic Started: Sep 7 2011, 06:27 PM (191 Views)
Mason
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I thought this should have its own thread.

Obama wants to create a New Freddie and Fannie - laundering that name and creating a Fed Home bank where he can orchestrate Gov't Home shenanigans.

This may be the best argument the man is trying to sink the ship. All the Evidence is in that Fannie and Freddie were colossal failures and Taxpayers are on the hook for the Engineeering of Free giveaways in the name of minority ownership.

There is absolutely no reason for the Feds to increase the liabilities of the Taxpayers in Gov't home ownership in this country.






Edited by Mason, Sep 7 2011, 06:37 PM.
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kbp

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I thought something was going on there!

You have to realize that the original idea of Fannie & Freddie is still a benefit to the people that I doubt more than a handful of politicians will condemn.

The purpose is for it to locate investors to purchase the mortgages and free up money for use at the local level; keep the local sources with enough capital on hand to write mortages for the local buyers and help Americans buy homes with reasonable interest rates.

Even the Grinch won't destroy such a program like that.

Now, we all know the politicians can screw up even a good thing!
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Think "recovery"!

The housing market has led us out of more slow economies than any other market we have. At least some cure for the problem would eliminate the drag it has on us now.
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Some are saying that he is paying for all this with Future cuts - Cuts TBD.

Sound Familiar?

You gotta be kiddin' me.


cmao (c = cry)


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kbp

I haven't been able to figure out where the unlimited funds are coming from to keep Fannie going. I suspect they reluctantly write off projected losses, then must somehow budget to cover that. They may offset it with projected income off the mortgages they hold. It probably still leaves a budget hole to cover, but that may less than $100 billion the way they plan with the accounting.

The idea of a new, government owned Fannie would allow them to hide the costs better than the old system of having to supply money to the PRIVATE operations ...and Obama seems to be building more government banking systems anyway.

I also anticipate that holding foreclosed properties is a major negative cash flow they MUST resolve before and solutions come about.
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kbp

Slightly OT...

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A 50-Year Bond? What One Fed Option Could Look Like

With the Federal Reserve widely expected later this month to unveil the latest weapon in its easing arsenal, expectations are ranging from Operation Twist, a variation called Operation Torque, and to a 50-year Treasury bond.

A 50-year bond? While the idea seems radical even for a central bank carrying a $2.8 trillion balance sheet, the idea of the Fed going that far out on the yield curve in a desire to stimulate the economy is drawing market chatter.

The purpose of the bond would be to extend the duration of the Fed's otherwise short-term debt portfolio. In theory it would take the pressure off the central bank from having to roll over its debt on a continual basis.

Buyers would be the Fed and perhaps pension funds and those who desire a higher yield and longer-term debt. Rumors have floated before about a possible 100-year bond but one has never come to fruition.

"This is a viable option for them," insists Jeff Kilburg, senior development director at TreasuryCurve, an online trading platform. "They're able to extend that debt, that's the whole key. Clearly the global economy is an open wound. This is an important tactic that would instill some confidence, clarity and vision and provide a template for the European problems."

For the record, a well-placed Treasury source dismissed the idea of the department and the Fed working to develop a 50-year product.

But the discussion is symbolic of the race among investors to discern the Fed's next move now that the second round of quantitative easing —QE2—is over and the US economy is teetering on re-entering another recession just two years after the last one ended.

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I've seen this idea floated elsewhere lately. Not sure it will happen. Just pointing it out because of what it could do to the mortage market, should ammortizations stretch out to, say, 40 year.

I used to be able to get better rates with >20% down, then along came all the secured mortgages and people were getting the same rates with <5% down. The worry of a market change or foreclosure on a run down property within the first 10 years disappeared.

If the government pushed some Fannie type entity to secure or even write mortgages for 40 year periods, at a reasonable rate, the reduction in house payments would certainly leave households with more to spend elsewhere.

That would not surprise me, were it to happen. Obama had a few lines tonight about working to get everybody on that "just about 4%" rate mortgages.

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