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How to get out of the Fannie Freddie mess
07/13/08
Econbrowser: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, July 12, 2008
"The overriding concern in dealing with the current mess is that the process of rapid and radical deleveraging would so impede the flow of new credit that the housing price declines, foreclosures, and bankruptcies significantly overshoot the values that we'd expect in a properly functioning credit market. In addition, I would worry about possible serious repercussions of a flight of foreign capital if there is a sudden perception that agency debt entails heavy risks.
The principle of "make those who caused the problem pay" has a lot of visceral appeal. But the principle of "don't impose severe and gratuitous extra costs on those who had no role in causing the problem"-- in other words, don't make the housing depression much more severe just to teach somebody a lesson-- has to be the basis for our policy decisions.
My recommendation would therefore be for a managed bailout in which the stockholders, creditors and taxpayers jointly share the bill."
Source: Extract from article linked to above
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