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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2sigma who wrote (16350)	1/15/2009 9:59:55 PM
From: Secret_Agent_Man	Respond to of 71475

just look at FRE/FNM

To: 2sigma who wrote (16350)	1/15/2009 10:10:34 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 71475

I see that was answered. Something like 1/5 or less, since the gov. gets 80% stake. Look at RBS too. This is really silly - bonds sell with insurance contract on top. During good times this allowed bad borrowers to get good rates, as the insured bond rating gets high due to high insurer rating. Now, as insurers blow up, the opposite is true - rates rise for everybody, and bad borrowers can't get credit.