5 Trillion Mortgage Linked Securities Crisis
The NYPost.com says Powerful lawmaker Barney Frank "had to pull his foot out of his mouth yesterday".
The Massachusetts Congressman rattled investors when he said the US Treasury won't be responsible for bailing out investors holding the more than $5 trillion of mortgage-linked securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the ailing mortgage companies at the center of the junk mortgage crisis.
"Please don't think this [debt] is federally guaranteed, I don't think it is, I don't think it should be, I don't feel any obligation to bail you out," he said. In a restructuring of the firms, investors could expect a "whole range of options. . . from [being paid] nothing to a haircut to whatever."
The Treasury soon needed to sooth the financial markets and said it stands behind its unusual Christmas Spirit pledge to back the securities with unlimited funds.
Only what they do not mention is that the unlimited funds are tax-payer monies that will plunge the Americans into deeper poverty, unemployment and financial collapse.
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Filed under Financial Crisis by on Mar 9th, 2010.

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