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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Begging for Fannie and Freddie

In today's commentary in WSJ, Countrywide Financial Corp CEO Angelo Mozilo is now begging to raise Fannie and Freddie loan limits to $625,000.

First give out bad loans, then sell all your stock holdings, then borrow from FHLB's like there is no tom morrow. Then dump the current junk onto the GSEs.

We have a current mess in housing because loans were given to people who could not afford them. Raising the limit is just going to make things worse.

Even if they raised the limits, I am not sure that would help right now. Freddie and Fannie seem to have their own capital issues right now. These are the same agencies whose accounting evokes shades of Enron according to Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil.

But that does not matter because let's just dump the junk on tax payers. Let's go further into the black hole by giving out bigger more irresponsible loans.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119682399988414066.html?mod=todays_us_opinion

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