Investors hold ‘worthless paper’ after feds seize billions in private dollars
Tennessee Watchdog-October 15, 2014 - October 16, 2014
Tennessee Watchdog, By Chris Butler
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have essentially paid back the $187 billion U.S. taxpayers loaned them after the economy tanked in 2008, but the feds are still seizing all of their profits.
The U.S. Treasury Department is doing this under something known as a “Third Amendment Sweep.”
But these profits, said Tim Pagliara, chairman and CEO of the Franklin-based CapWealth Advisors, belong in the private sector.
The government’s actions leave Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s shareholders with nothing.
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