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What Happened To The “Shut Down Fannie And Freddie” Movement? (Both Fannie And Freddie Are GROWING Their Retained Portfolios)

by confoundedinterest17 I spoke at the American Action Forum in Washington DC on the future of government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Speaking with me was Laurie Goodman from The Urban Institute. Laurie loves Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and argued passionately against shutting them down. I argued to shrink their retained portfolios …

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Both Fannie and Freddie report that serious delinquencies in multifamily are rising to multi year highs.

Both Fannie and Freddie report that serious delinquencies in multifamily are rising to multi year highs. 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/BmgxaYA14C — Kalani o Māui (@MauiBoyMacro) January 15, 2026 Florida condo crash happening in real-time. Seller cut price to $256k. Back in 2022, it was valued at over $1 million. 75% haircut in 3 years. And 50% over …

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Trump is launching his own QE: Mortgage rates hit three year low after Trump orders Fannie and Freddie to buy $200 billion in bonds. 30 year mortgage may be heading down to 5.5%.

🚨 BREAKING: THIS IS HOW 2006 HAPPENS AGAIN Trump orders $200,000,000,000 in mortgage bond buys to lower mortgage rates. If they really start doing it to "lower mortgage rates" That is not fixing housing. That is pumping the bubble. Because the US housing problem is not… https://t.co/Pk1Q2sYtyj pic.twitter.com/MqN9hGAX3Y — Wimar.X (@DefiWimar) January 8, 2026 Trump …

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Fannie and Freddie told to treat crypto like real assets for mortgages; Fed moves to weaken capital rules

2008 starts to look like a warm-up… The new synthetic mortgage back securities 2008 is going to look like a bull market. https://t.co/jZHvpWq6dQ — The Great Martis (@great_martis) June 25, 2025 .@pulte is easily the most ignorant bloated imbecile to head any federal housing bureaucracy and that's really saying something. Why would any self-respecting bank …

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Schiff slams Trump’s plan to make Fannie and Freddie public, explicit guarantees to fuel reckless risk and taxpayer losses

Of all the policy mistakes Trump has made as President, taking Fannie and Freddie public with explicit government guarantees would be the worst so far. Prior to their bankruptcy, the guarantees were only implicit. An explicit guarantee would allow the GSEs to be even more reckless than they were before, allowing the president’s friends to …

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Trump eyes fannie mae freddie mac privatization, homebuyers brace for higher rates

uhh… WOW! https://t.co/pDlpOfxWQt — Roberto Rios (@peruvian_bull) May 21, 2025 Trump announced he’s seriously considering privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-backed companies that support the mortgage market by buying loans from banks and turning them into securities. This would shift them from government control to private hands, involving key figures like Treasury Secretary …

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There is $17 trillion of home equity sitting with U.S. homes, and Freddie Mac wants to offer second mortgages to tap into it. Here’s what you should know:

by TonyLiberty There is $17 trillion of home equity sitting with U.S. homes, and Freddie Mac wants to offer second mortgages to tap into it. Tapping into home equity was a massive part of what fueled the banking crisis in 2008. Here’s what you should know: Homeowners would be able to take out a second …

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Freddie Mac reports alarming surge in defaults. $100 Million Apartments going dark.

Apartment landlords around America are going into default on their mortgages at decade-high rates, suggesting that the Commercial Real Estate Crash is going to get even worse in 2024. With data from Freddie Mac reporting that the serious delinquency rate on multifamily mortgages have quadrupled over the last year. With many real estate owners and …

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