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- Annaly Capital: Getting Your Slice of the Bail-Out Pie
- Benjamin Mackovak submits: Annaly Capital NLY offers investors a way to profit from the government’s intervention in Freddie FRE and Fannie FNM as well as from the various other bail-outs. NLY is a REIT whose principal business objective is to generate net income for distribution to investors from the spread...
- External links 2008-12-11
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- The Paragraph That Changed the World: Will Treasuries Crash?
- Michael B. Krause submits: From Sunday's Fannie Mae FNM & Freddie Mac FRE press release: Finally, to further support the availability of mortgage financing for millions of Americans, Treasury is initiating a temporary program to purchase GSE MBS. During this ongoing housing correction, the GSE portfolios have been constrained,...
- External links 2008-09-08
- GSE reform
- THE YEAR 2004 JUST MIGHT BE THE year for government-sponsored enterprise GSE regulatory reform. While several members of Congress and some industry participants have discussed a variety of issues concerning GSE regulation in the past, the news in early 2003 of an accounting scandal at Freddie Mac gave the matter...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- GSEs, Mortgage Rates, and Secondary Market Activities
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-sponsored enterprises GSEs that purchase mortgages and issue mortgage-backed securities MBS. In addition, the GSEs are active participants in the primary and secondary mortgage markets on behalf of their own portfolios of MBS. Because these portfolios have grown quite large, portfolio purchases as well...
- White papers 2005-01-12
- The Facts on Fannie and Freddie
- Max Fraad Wolff submits: A conservator will take full managerial/ownership control and 79.9% of common shares under a contractual agreement. The intent is to wind this arrangement down toward the end of 2010- presumably as stability returns to residential real estate and financial markets. The portfolios will not grow across...
- External links 2008-09-09
- Ricardian Equivalence in the Markets Today
- Macro Man submits: Another day, another program....or, in the case of yesterday, two. Yesterday's announcement of a new ABS lending program and, perhaps more importantly, direct Fed purchases of GSE paper, has been taken as a significant step. MBS spreads have cratered, swap spreads have come in, and...
- External links 2008-11-26
- Fed Losing Control of Mortgage Rates
- Michael Steinberg submits: With much fanfare, the Federal Reserve started buying Fannie Mae FNM, Freddie Mac FRE and FHLB debt and MBS. Conforming 30-year mortgages rates dropped to an average 4.96 according to Freddie’s last report. The Fed was hailed for its accomplishment, and predictions came from all corners that...
- External links 2009-01-23
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