Guido2
2日前
I'm writing this for benefit of those who weren't here from the start and think FnF situation is similar to AIG. It isn't. The court actually sided with Starr International and ruled that exercising the warrants was a TAKING. However, it awarded Starr $0 because without the government's help, AIG would have been bankrupt. According to their Regulator James Lockhart, FnF were well capitalized when the warrants were issued. Their conservatorship was described by President Bush as TEMPORARY to ensure liquidity in the secondary financial market. In other words, they were forced to buy bad mortgages being held by TBTF banks. I'll be in the forefront, if FnF warrants are exercised.
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NeoSunTzu
3日前
Housing is a big yawn - President Trump ... that pretty much sums up how he feels ... still hasn't signed the housing bill because he's pissed at Congress for not being able to pass the Save America Act ... I want it too, but this is pathetic and illustrative of one of Trump's lesser qualities: he's vindictive and petty ... in the month that's left before the August recess it's highly unlikely Luna's new bill or any other passage of a Save America Act is in the cards ...
I don't know if Luna is fully educated on reconciliation bills, but she stated the Byrd Rule would pretty much kill any chance of the Save Act getting added to a reconciliation bill, and my belief which is fact - that a reconciliation bill could be used for the Treasury to "forgive" any portion of the GSE outstanding bill according to fake c'ship - is highly unlikely for Trump to fight for or be added in the reconciliation bill either ...
We are currently at the mercy of an appeals court which is in no hurry to make a decision ... complicated decisions like these with high dollar amounts at stake run closer to 6 months to return - some have take up to a year - they usually spend the Summer months writing their opinions, and if they are like the rest of normal humans, Summer means relaxation ... my guess is that all the advisors around Trump are telling him he has all the time in world to make a decision thus the "it's not a rush" bullshit he pumped out last month ...
Bottom line: fuck these guys, all the talk about the Constitution, Liberty, and communism is political campaign nonsense for the midterms ... they'll steal every shareholder dollar they can get away with and split it amongst themselves and the tech, crypto, and AI investments Trump is making billions off of ... he has fully lost my support
Mister4
3日前
Once you are a made man or woman in the DC syndicate you are immune from prosecution. Look at all the criminals over the years, have any of them gone to jail? Only their political enemies have gone to jail. I don't need to name the names but the list is long. So, do not get your hopes up any of the criminals will go to jail. Look at the conservatorship, it's the crime of the century and nothing gets done, going on 18 years. So, enjoy your families, hobbies, and life in general and don't expect too much from your gubnit.
NeoSunTzu
4日前
You CLEARLY missed the point of that valuation illustration. That would be the values absent conservatorship, NO DILUTION, and NO egregious capital standards, or under the condition they already meet their full required capital - give or take a slightly different multiple based on the actual specifics of each company and the prevailing market conditions. This is the method used under normal market circumstances. Furthermore, this is NOT "my" methodology; it IS THE METHODOLOGY OF FINANCIAL ANALYSTS marketwide since for time immemorial (at least for mature stocks which F2 are). You just seem simply too incapable of understanding the financial, valuation, and market nuances underlying the simple mathematcis of these valuation methodologies to have a clear discussion. Or, as it seems clearly to me, you are married to an outcome that you want to continue defending for your own intellectual pride. ALL valuation has to have a solid basis in the actual earnings that can be paid to an investor and other associated market realities.
The illustration was meant to show how much room there is for the government to make money, as well as shareholders without all of the many complicating factors (legal, political, logistical, and administrative, significant financial discount incentive to investors, JPS conversion complications) that go along with executing the full warrants. Dilute each company 5, 10, or 15% and redo the calc to get a more realistic value of what each shareholder would make under the conditions of that dilution. But those prices would only be reached under the condition of proper ECRF capital requirement, being fully capitalized, and the government COMPLETELY relinquishing ALL OTHER CLAIMS.
Each of those other calcuations would give a fair estimate under the conditions mentioned above for each equity price and still make the jps full stated value.
NeoSunTzu
4日前
One can never underestimate the government's capacity (and their corporate welfare recipients) for greed, hubris, or market disrupting action; however, I believe there is a zero percent chance that the warrants are executed in full mainly due to two things:
1. It creates a de facto takings, all the courts know it and would have no constitutional basis on which to deny it
- winning it and how much can be won are beside the point; it creates a justiciable event that RISKS tying up GSEs/housing beyond any administration's ability to control their full use for more time than they likely see as comfortable
2. the logistics and financial realities associated with trying to sell the massive amount of shares into a market that realizes the entities they will buy into are massively diluted, have very low capacity for paying dividends, are still for all practical purposes under government control with NO real prospects of the kind of growth required to compete in the market for other investments - this requires a 20-30-50% discount to entice investors to buy those shares ... they would be trying to sell more than four times as many shares as they sold in AIG which took 6 different rounds to sell over nearly a two year period. Finally, the proceeds will do NOTHING to move the needle on a single year budget deficit and certainly less than NOTHING, ZERO, NADA with regard to the national deficit. Also, a takings case could force them to give up a significant portion of the proceeds.
Full execution of the warrants, in my opinion, has no chance of any real financial feasibility or success, but as I said, it's not that foolish bureaucrats will not attempt it, but there must be at least one adult in the room with solid financial reality experience.
For Fannie, at an average of roughly $16B dollars in net earnings over the past 10 years with current shares of 1.158B and a financial industry multiplier average of players in their class of 16 we have an undiluted share price of:
[$16B/1.158B] x16 = $221/share
Again, this is TOTALLY UNDILUTED no warrant or sps dilution, and JUST FOR FANNIE. Think about adding Freddie into the mix. This clearly shows there is plenty of room for both the government to make some money and shareholders to be richly and justly reward without having to fully execute those warrants (or cramdown from SPS). This is further supported and even magnified by a proper risk-based ECRF cap requirements commensurate with the GSEs line of business.
In my opinion there is no reason other than greed (government or other industry players), or power hungry control freaks that we cannot see the junior preferred receive full stated value and both equities return to their pre-c'ship levels almost immediately after the solution is defined and put into motion with both sets of securities rising all along the way to those values.
It seems certain they are waiting on the appeals decision (although this is only faux-necessary) the numbers at stake are less than one percent of the GSE's net worth in total. But some kind of remand to lower courts for additional damages could be the decisive factor in the government being prodded to move quickly to the solution that delivers the outcome I speak of above.
But the ugly caveat is that Trump digs in when he feels forced, the other industry players as well. There is a risk they ALL dig in, especially if there is a remand to the lower courts for further damages - they might just let that playout or even appeal to SCOTUS. In that case we could take another two years. An ugly thought indeed.