Date: January 22nd, 2008

Who’s next? Part 1, the GSEs’ 2007 buying

22 January, 2008 (09:52) | Capital markets, GSEs, Markets, Subprime, US News | No comments

We’ve barely had two weeks so far in 2008, and already we’ve had mega-writedowns from big Wall Street banks (Citi, Merrill, and Bank of America), a monoline insurer (AMBAC) lose its prized AAA rating, raise new capital and implicitly announce that it was on a voluntary glide path to orderly dissolution.  I thus find myself […]