Comments on: The Freddie and Fannie Bailout: Writing Investors A Blank Check With Your Money http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:34:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ian Welsh http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1553152 Ian Welsh Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:30:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1553152 <p>Thanks Cbl2.</p> Thanks Cbl2.

]]> By: Ian Welsh http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1553149 Ian Welsh Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:29:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1553149 <p>Compare it to the value of the US mortgage market instead.</p> Compare it to the value of the US mortgage market instead.

]]> By: MsAnnaNOLA http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1553008 MsAnnaNOLA Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:17:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1553008 <p>We have to stop this bail out. Don’t know how but we have to…</p> <p>11 Reasons America is a new Socialist economy…losing AAA credit rating of USA is all over the internet…Scary.</p> <p><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/eleven-reasons-america-new-top/story.aspx?guid=%7BD23E1901-728E-4A3C-99D1-7E80F74C3AE3%7D&ref=patrick.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.marketwatch.com/new.....atrick.net</a></p> We have to stop this bail out. Don’t know how but we have to…

11 Reasons America is a new Socialist economy…losing AAA credit rating of USA is all over the internet…Scary.

http://www.marketwatch.com/new…..atrick.net

]]> By: MsAnnaNOLA http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552998 MsAnnaNOLA Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:05:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552998 <p>We can’t afford this or the additional bailouts to come. We are drowning in debt. Doubling the debt will not solve this problem. Wiping out Fannie Freddie and the investor class might help a little in the long term. </p> <p>Our dollars will be worthless soon. How will we buy anything then? Gas, Food? Hmm…..armegeddon is on the way. Get some ammo and stock up on canned goods. (Never thought I would be saying this.)</p> We can’t afford this or the additional bailouts to come. We are drowning in debt. Doubling the debt will not solve this problem. Wiping out Fannie Freddie and the investor class might help a little in the long term.

Our dollars will be worthless soon. How will we buy anything then? Gas, Food? Hmm…..armegeddon is on the way. Get some ammo and stock up on canned goods. (Never thought I would be saying this.)

]]> By: TexBetsy http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552965 TexBetsy Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:19:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552965 <p>Teddy upstairs/ <a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/even-a-blind-joe-klein-finds-a-truffle-now-and-then/" rel="nofollow">http://firedoglake.com/2008/07.....-and-then/</a></p> Teddy upstairs/ http://firedoglake.com/2008/07…..-and-then/

]]> By: PJEvans http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552963 PJEvans Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:17:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552963 <p>Kinda in the line of this thread:<br /> I caught the second half of an ad on the captive-audience screen in the elevator a little bit ago:</p> <blockquote><p>… because Warren Buffett is NOT Jimmy’s brother!</p></blockquote> Kinda in the line of this thread:
I caught the second half of an ad on the captive-audience screen in the elevator a little bit ago:

… because Warren Buffett is NOT Jimmy’s brother!

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552962 Adie Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:01:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552962 <p>Good on Sowell. Lump of coal for Malkin.</p> <p>We’ll be moving to Oberlin, where she supposedly learned something. Can’t wait to hear what they say on the street corners around there about her.</p> <p>Her bile-spewing absolutely stuns me. How could anyone….?! oh well</p> <p>;-P</p> Good on Sowell. Lump of coal for Malkin.

We’ll be moving to Oberlin, where she supposedly learned something. Can’t wait to hear what they say on the street corners around there about her.

Her bile-spewing absolutely stuns me. How could anyone….?! oh well

;-P

]]> By: mack http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552961 mack Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:59:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552961 <p>I got yer friggin tax rebate right here</p> I got yer friggin tax rebate right here

]]> By: ekunin http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552960 ekunin Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:55:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552960 <p>No taxpayer alive today, or tomorrow for that matter, will pay the money used to bail out Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac stockholders, bondholders or whatever. You cannot get blood from a stone and you cannot get new value into a federal government operating at a deficit without raising taxes. Since that seems to be off the table, we are left with printing money. That can get hairy especially if our middle eastern oil suppliers decide their oil for our paper is not a good deal.</p> No taxpayer alive today, or tomorrow for that matter, will pay the money used to bail out Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac stockholders, bondholders or whatever. You cannot get blood from a stone and you cannot get new value into a federal government operating at a deficit without raising taxes. Since that seems to be off the table, we are left with printing money. That can get hairy especially if our middle eastern oil suppliers decide their oil for our paper is not a good deal.

]]> By: Petrocelli http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552959 Petrocelli Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:54:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/07/23/the-feddie-and-fannie-bailout-writing-investors-a-blank-check-with-your-money/#comment-1552959 <p><strong>((( Ian )))</strong><br /><em><br /> Brother, can you spare a <strike>dime</strike> coupla hundred Billion ?</em></p> ((( Ian )))

Brother, can you spare a dime coupla hundred Billion ?

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