Are Freddie and Fannie Insolvent?
Financial news outlet CNBC was reporting early Thursday that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two corporations around which much of housing recovery has been structured, may be technically insolvent. The claim came from William Poole, former president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve. Poole told Bloomberg News that Congress should recognize that the two are technically insolvent and the odds are that the U.S. may have to bail them out. Others disagreed, saying that there would have to be sudden losses of $40 billion between the two to trigger insolvency.
Ref. https://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/7102008_F..._Insolvency.asp
With these two entities being in trouble the whole mortgage industry is in deep trouble. These two together I think are responsible for around $5 Billion in guaranteed loans. I hope that they do not go under as that will spiral us down into a new depression.
It sounds like they are going to help some, at least for now.
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In a separate announcement, the Federal Reserve said it would make one of its short-term lending programs available to Fannie and Freddie 'to promote the availability of home mortgage credit during a period of stress in financial markets." https://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/busines...-fannie_freddie |
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I wonder what the big picture is going to be. Will this be a temporary patch with worse to come down the road or have we had a wake-up call to get things turned around? Something needs to be done different, that is for sure.
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