Friday, July 11, 2008

Fannie and Freddie may be forced in to receivership, yikes!

Fannie and Freddie may be forced in to receivership, yikes! Perhaps we all should have paid more heed to the warnings of the previous FED Chair as he pinned over how much on the hook the Treasury could be with its implied guarantee’s .Perhaps this is the climatic event that from which my past experience signals the end of the crisis and the beginning of a rebound in financials. I had long surmised that this current crisis would end with some major bank teetering on the edge of disaster. My regular readers will remember several times I pointed out that in financial crises of the later half of the 20th century all roads led to Citi bank but a crash and burn act from Fannie and Freddie might just do the trick .Apparently it would be an understatement to say that things are a bit worse than even the most negative commentator has led us to believe! Folks I am not ready to say buy yet but as Baron Rothschild once said,” buy when there is blood in the streets” and at this moment it’s starting to look pretty gory.

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