{"id":888,"date":"2008-09-07T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2008-09-07T04:00:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T08:00:42","slug":"bailout-or-buyout-fannie-and-freddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/07\/bailout-or-buyout-fannie-and-freddie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailout or Buyout? Fannie and Freddie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my <strong>MSN TopStocks<\/strong> post:<\/p>\n<p>5:45 on a Friday night. Somehow I knew something was in the air. The end of day upward move for a market that should have traded lower made no sense. It appears that now, according to the WSJ, there is talk about a backstop for Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). It is a general consensus that any plan will have a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">very <\/span>negative impact on the common shares and after hours shares are sinking. Freddie is now down 23% for the day and Fannie is down 20%. Wait, Freddie is down 25%, no 27%, uh&#8230;&#8230;this is not pretty and I am not kidding.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, there is talk of a rally that will be in place as the market opens on Monday. Perhaps that is good news as I suppose that the guessing game is coming to an end and investors will be able to rest with the knowledge that we finally have a big fat failure, once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of my post <a title=\"Fannie and Freddie Bailout or Bustout\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.moneycentral.msn.com\/topstocks\/archive\/2008\/09\/05\/bailout-or-bustout-fannie-and-freddie.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my MSN TopStocks post: 5:45 on a Friday night. Somehow I knew something was in the air. The end of day upward move for a market that should have traded lower made no sense. It appears that now, according to the WSJ, there is talk about a backstop for Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,186,21,42],"tags":[215,91,486],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-marketmash","category-short-ideas","category-stocks","tag-credit-markets","tag-financial-markets","tag-short-ideas","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}