Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Now that the US government de facto owns the GSEs, what’s it going to do with them? I had no idea until I saw a headline in Bloomberg so remarkable I checked it directly with my friends at each agency.
Fannie, Freddie to Step Up Mortgage Bond Purchases
What? I thought. This is what got them into […]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
Yesterday we recorded the Godfather-like meeting, described in the New York Times, held last week in Treasury’s offices, in which the financial rescue’s architects, headed by Secretary Paulson, made the big banks an offer they couldn’t refuse.
“Someday, and that day may never come, I’ll call upon you to do a service […]
It used to be that if you made a fool of yourself in the wilderness, you got rescued for free. Now, with extreme skiing, orienteering, and other Darwin-Award candidate adventures, if they airlift your frozen self off the peak, once you’re thawed out and after the flashbulbs have popped, you are presented with a bill […]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and the previous Part 1.]
So far we’ve seen that almost everybody is wrong about what the financial crisis is …
1. Not an asset bubble … a systematic under-pricing of risk.
2. Not caused by subprime lending … although that was the miner’s canary.
3. Not principally about the GSEs … because other financial institutions […]
[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
Yesterday we knocked off a handful of things the credit crisis wasn’t:
1. Not an asset bubble … a systematic under-pricing of risk.
2. Not caused by subprime lending … although that was the miner’s canary.
3. Not principally about the GSEs … because other financial institutions are in much worse shape
4. Not just […]
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