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Luke 532
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Hannah Lang's article tonight in American Banker...
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You can't margin OTC securities like the PFDs.
beat me to it. but 100% margin is god's way of telling you to chill
It's true. That's in the Bible. ;)
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GSE bailout was really a stickup by Hindes
https://www.americanbanker.com/opinion/gse-bailout-was-really-a-stickup
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-primer-on-the-future-of-fannie-freddie-11566898207?mod=hp_lista_pos3
Plan to be released "shortly after Labor day."
Yes, that's a few outlets now that have said shortly after Labor Day instead of September/October. Interesting that this is what ACG Analytics said two weeks ago (on August 13th)...
#GSE #FHA #Presidential memo out post Labor Day. Not surprising DC roads vacant of traffic. Summer Ghost town.
Q:Do you know how long after Labor Day? Days, weeks, maybe longer? Many thanks!
A: ASAP
Q: So around September 3rd, 4th, 5th... that week? Thanks.
A: That’s what we are told in DC.
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Todd Sullivan makes some great points about recent news starting at the 21:45 minute mark (Fitch, Sheila Bair, etc.): https://valueplays.podbean.com/e/16-aug-23-2019/
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Plan will include details on ending the net worth sweep and a path out of conservatorship. #GSEs
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https://seekingalpha.com/news/3493786-fannie-mae-adds-sheila-bair-board
Fannie Mae (OTCQB:FNMA) names Sheila C. Bair, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to its board.
Bair had also service as assistant secretary for financial institutions at the U.S. Department of Treasury and senior vice president for government relations at the New York Stock Exchange.
She will be serving on the board's compensation committee, nominating and corporate governance committee, and the risk policy and capital committee.
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He seems to have been directionally right so far...not great to keep hearing that the time period for release keeps getting stretched, but hopefully happens soon.
SCOOP: @USTreasury puts final touches on long awaited @FannieMae @FreddieMac reform memo skedded release in Sept-Oct. Addresses "recap/release" from conservatorship; unlikely to address IPO plans. Treas waiting on final word from @WhiteHouse on memo
more on this NOW with @LizClaman as @USTreasury eyes Sept-Oct time frame to release long-awaited memo on reforming GSEs. @WhiteHouse will provide comments in coming days before Treasury finalizes $FNMA $FMCC Treasury had no comment on matter
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https://perspectives.agf.com/a-government-in-paralysis/
"Two of the remaining heavyweights in the Cabinet — Mike Pompeo and Stephen Mnuchin — are thinking of leaving this fall. Pompeo knows that ISIS and the Taliban haven’t been defeated, yet the president wants to disengage. Mnuchin is exasperated on trade, and both are grappling with enormous unfilled vacancies."
Thank you. That would definitely be concerning if he were to leave prior to plan being implemented.
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Read earlier this morning that there are rumblings that Mnuchin is thinking of leaving this fall because he is "exasperated on trade". This seems like a real risk IMO since it would most likely serve to dramatically elongate the R&R process, especially if the end to NWS has not been negotiated and announced - new TRSY Sec. would have to get up to speed and might have a very different view than Mnuchin.
Anyone with a different view?
Where'd you hear that? Thanks in advance.
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I have to ask you this: Do you think there is still some opportunity for information arbitrary?
Information arbitrage, no. Cojones arbitrage, yes.
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Looks like Moelis was active today and ACG Analytics was there..
https://twitter.com/ACGAnalytics/status/1097911134236102656
Any answers on NWS continuing vs ending, and the timing of such action, if any?
Bedtime in DC. #NWS to end as part of new negotiated Amendment in 4th quarter
Question on GSE's... are you hearing the plan being released Labor Day week is positive, negative, or neutral for preferred shareholders?
#Presidentisl #Mortgage Memo has two parts. #FHA and #GSEa. They wll have answers to publicly disclosed questions based on what can Admin do alone and do they need Congress for. All positive.
ACG video from earlier this year if you haven't seen it already: https://www.realvision.com/tv/shows/trade-ideas/videos/a-new-fannie-mae-play
Is it just me or are these guys tweeting old news?
They're confirming what we already expected via their contacts in DC, but what the market still doesn't think will happen. And ACG has contacts at FHFA:
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Looks like Moelis was active today and ACG Analytics was there..
https://twitter.com/ACGAnalytics/status/1097911134236102656
Any answers on NWS continuing vs ending, and the timing of such action, if any?
Bedtime in DC. #NWS to end as part of new negotiated Amendment in 4th quarter
Question on GSE's... are you hearing the plan being released Labor Day week is positive, negative, or neutral for preferred shareholders?
#Presidentisl #Mortgage Memo has two parts. #FHA and #GSEa. They wll have answers to publicly disclosed questions based on what can Admin do alone and do they need Congress for. All positive.
ACG video from earlier this year if you haven't seen it already: https://www.realvision.com/tv/shows/trade-ideas/videos/a-new-fannie-mae-play
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The GSE stress test results were all out by now in previous years.
Possibly lower capital requirements than previously thought. Very interesting.
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" Have the shareholders been robbed off more than $25 in dividends for a $25 stock? Yes
Have they looted over 270 billion from two of the companies that control 15% of economy and left them with just 3 billion in capital and making them completely vulnerable to downturns and recession? Yes
Have they lost credibility of crap talk on camera by not stopping NWS immediately ? Yes
Have the public been lied over and over again on timing of recap : Jan 6, March, June, July, Aug and goes on. Yes
Have they applied double standard on constitutionality when compared with CFPB so that loot can keep going on? Yes
Have they been able to reach out to courts as well to meddle into our justice system? "
"The best and most legitimate quotes are those that offer no source or reference."
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In a 17-page paper titled “GSE Reform: None or Mostly Done?” Layton reveals a conversation he had a few months ago in a meeting with an unnamed senior official in the Department of the Treasury who told him: “GSE reform has already mostly happened.”
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I wouldn't read into this - I think we are having some confirmation bias w/ Bloomberg "Intelligence". As an example, they missed Calabria as potential successor in this mid-October report:
http://www.timelessinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/GSEs_Bloomberg-Intelligence-20181019.pdf
Good point. Thanks.
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right now, no equity offerings are imminent. market is worried over china, trade and HK repression. this too shall pass, but trump is letting his stubbornness on trade risk his other priorities, to say nothing about his reelection.
BI says the plan of the re-IPO is imminent, not the execution of said plan. I know there's plenty of hair on the execution (as there is with any IPO), but I was simply pointing out the release of the plan itself and the BI saying it will include an IPO.
An IPO being part of the plan isn't news to anybody on this board (at least it shouldn't be), but BI saying it's imminent at this juncture bodes very well for prefs.
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Bloomberg Intelligence thinks Treasury re-IPO plan is imminent (attached).
We know the Treasury plan is imminent, but it's interesting to read Bloomberg Intelligence saying it being a re-IPO as imminent. I always figured that was the case that we'd have a re-IPO, but nice to hear a reputable source such as BI (not just Bloomberg, very different) say it's happening.
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A few years ago I sent a number of free books to people that responded to the message below with a PM. I'm doing it again for a movie called The Case for Christ. Just send me a private message with your address and whether you prefer DVD or Blu-ray and I'll send you a free copy. Thanks.
“the pleasure of being above the rest” does.See C.S. Lewis, MERE CHRISTIANITY 122 (Harper Collins
2001). Let the word go forth: for however much the judiciary
has emboldened the administrative state, we “say what the law
is.” Marbury, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) at 177.
To anybody reading this post, I'd like to offer a free copy of the book mentioned in the filing, Mere Christianity. The late author, C.S. Lewis, was an atheist that investigated the merits of the claims of Jesus Christ.
You might recognize Lewis' name because he also wrote The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (as part of The Chronicles of Narnia).
Send me a private message if you'd like a free copy.
Amazon link of the book: https://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Amplified-Introduction-Broadcast-Christian/dp/B000OESR7K/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1475256965&sr=8-3&keywords=mere+christianity
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One major Treasury obstacle/hurdle nearly completed. Congress passed debt ceiling, Trump to sign.
and Mnuchin has returned from effing china
Apparently Kyle Bass' highest conviction, as of today, is the prefs being worth par. Interesting.
Kyle Bass is working with Steve Bannon on China, who is close to trump. May be nothing but there you go.
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One major Treasury obstacle/hurdle nearly completed. Congress passed debt ceiling, Trump to sign.
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Language sounds like he is gearing up for a road show.
Sure does.
FNMA and FMCC preferreds. In search of the elusive 10 bagger.
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I think cherzeca may very well be right. I wonder how the prefs would react the week following the plan release in terms of percentage of par under cherzeca's scenario.