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July 13, 2008 – 2:20 am

In My Uncle’s House

with fannie mae and freddie mac in a uncertain state, the new york times reports that the bush administration is mulling “a plan to have the superintendence enrol over individual or both of the companies and place them in a conservatorship if their problems worsen,” or possibly “an distinct government guarantee on the $5 trillion of owing owned or guaranteed by the companies.” philip klein comments: when [freddie mac was] created in 1970, fannie and freddie were granted a relatively modest $2.25 billion profile of credit from the government. though they give birth to never dipped into it, the inferential government backing has allowed them to wherewithal bond purchases at cheap rates. the ensemble idea was to boost home ownership by spreading risk around so that mortgage lenders were more relaxing issuing loans knowing they would be backed by fannie and freddie. of no doubt, what this translated into was companies issuing loans to people who weren’t credit deserving enough, and instead of hazard getting spread out, it actually became heavily concentrated into these two companies.while neither of these mortgage financiers allow money directly to consumers, they hold the bundled mortgages from the companies that do, and as a effect own or back more than half of the nation’s $12 trillion in mortgage debt. nationalizing their debt, on top of the tremendous aptitude costs entangled with, would no way the federal government ultimately owning a oversized portion of american homes.john mccain, dejectedly, has already come out in favor of some kind of bailout for fannie and freddie. obama, meanwhile, is staying vague. fannie and freddie insist that there’s no crisis. and — oh, yeah — the feds just took as a remainder a teetering pasadena-based bank.

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