navycmdr
2 hours ago
Senator Hagerty: transcript -
Director Thompson I would like to direct this to you. You have testified that in order to end conservatorship
of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two things need to happen. First, they’ve got to build capital through
retained earnings before ending the government’s 15 year long conservatorship. Second, you’ve said
that Congress needs to decide the future of these two government sponsored entities and the US mortgage
finance system more broadly. On the first point, the quickest way to end the GSE conservatorships is to
raise private capital just as bailed out banks were allowed to do in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
Now that the GSEs control so much of the housing market, there seem to be a reluctance to relinquish
government control. I ask myself: Why? Well, judging by the redistributive housing policies that have
been pursued while you’ve been at the helm of FHFA it seems that the GSEs are viewed by the Biden
administration as simply backdoors to push its DEI social policy agenda which is well beyond your
mandate.
On the second point, congress has already decided what type of mortgage finance system it wanted
with the 2008 HERA law. That law significantly enhanced the regulatory and supervisory powers of
your agency over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks. The problem here
is that the Obama and Biden administrations have never taken their feet off the throats of Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac so that they can succeed as private companies. The responsible thing to do for yourself, f
or Secretary Yellen and for Attorney General Garland is to continue the work that was begun by former
FHFA director Calabria to raise private capital and return Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the private markets.
This would result in a $100B+ windfall for taxpayers and could be used to immediately to help expand
the countries housing supply and support affordable housing for Americans most in need. We talked
about this at the time of your confirmation to be the agency head and our housing markets and
American taxpayers deserve to see these conservatorships to be brought to an end.
I appreciate your full attention to this in the time you have left remaining as director. Thank you.
Louie_Louie
21 hours ago
How many will fall for the next run up and then a few good drops then trickle drop like now? This has been the MO of those who are manipulating for years now. Too mnay penny chasers on these stocks that pump and are willing to try to day trade this only to realize they are getting played by bigger money, wash, rinse and repeat every quarter or couple quarters. We went up with nothing very solid or transformational as news, and now we go down the same way. How long before penny chasers learn the these 0.5, 0.10, 0.20, 0.25 cent etc runs are nothing more than a fishing expedition for the ones manipulating? Buy and hold the lowest priced shares you can manage to get. when wee see dollar pops, then yes, we are probably heading out of conservatorship, especially if there is "transformational" news. I myself have said a dozen times, until we break past $6 a share (FNMA) and start flirting with dollar pops, we are not going anywhere, and there's a very good chance that any run of a dollar plus over weeks, or months is nothing more than that fishing expedition going on. how many have been burned buying into that? I bet many who don't admit, because they are chasing a short term rise, and then chasing a falling knife.
detearing
1 day ago
FNMA $75 in 2002 was making half as much as in 2024.
If released, the potential is around $150.
150 x 700,000=$105,000,000.
105 million
We are of God and we know that the WHOLE WORLD LIETH IN WICKEDNESS.
GET THAT IN YER HEAD.
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Col 3:1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Php 4:4Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. 5Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. 6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
trunkmonk
1 day ago
Who knows about GSE advancements, its been so long, I am starting to believe GBs shell phone does get reception. But i sure wish we had ole Abe back. I really liked that guy.
just like i love anyone who goes out on a limb for what they believe is right and just. I love street preachers, their gifts are waiting for them is Heaven, anyone who mocks or torments them have already received everything they will ever get. God bless the lowly, Beatitudes are not very well understood, but someday, mans arrogance will run amuck and everyone will understand them. I sure hope God Blesses the GSE Common stock holders in particular, they have suffered much under injustice for over a decade.
navycmdr
2 days ago
GSEs Hold Steady on Home Sale Commissions / Exams by States Increase
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The government-sponsored enterprises issued notices Monday confirming their policies on commissions for home sales following a proposed settlement involving the National Association of Realtors.
“Buyer agent fees have historically been fees customarily paid by the property seller or property seller’s real estate agent, and, as such, they are currently excluded from these financing concession limits,” Freddie Mac said in its notice. “If these fees continue to be customarily paid by the property seller according to local convention, they will not be subject to financing concessions limits.” ...
State regulators initiated 2,085 exams of mortgage companies in 2023 through the state examination system within the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System, according to the Conference of State Bank Supervisors. That was up from 1,481 mortgage exams started in 2022...
navycmdr
5 days ago
DATE: Thursday, April 18, 2024 - TIME: 10:00 AM
LOCATION: Dirksen Senate Office Building 538
THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS will meet
in OPEN SESSION, HYBRID FORMAT to conduct a hearing on
“Oversight of Federal Housing Regulators.” The witnesses will be:
The Honorable Adrianne Todman, Acting Secretary, Depr of HUD; and
The Honorable Sandra Thompson, Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency.