Sunday, March 02, 2008

Subprime hitting GSEs

Karl Denninger comments trenchantly on a new scheme by "Fannie Mae", the government-sponsored mortgage lender: "Homesaver Advance" takes the borrower's missed mortgage payments and puts them into an unsecured loan, thus "healing" the credit history so that home lending can continue as if (as if!) everything were normal. Denninger sees this as a signal to "short" Fannie Mae.

But over a period, Denninger has moved on from trying to exploit such market weaknesses, to urging his fellow citizens to protest about the corruption of the financial system. His tone is now getting darker - like Jeffrey Nyquist, he's beginning to worry about international relations, for example the way that China's population pressure may threaten Russia's land. Lhasa 1950, Khabarovsk and Irkutsk when?

2 comments:

  1. This has always been a prime concern over here and is the reason for Siberia's development. It's number two fear to U.S. attack.

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  2. Care to give my forecast the once over?

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