"ahh...man...I was in tears, laughing after reading this!!! Love it!!!"    View Comment

"We are $250 Billion+ in the hole (I'd suspect closer to $500 Billion)...we're not pulling the GSE's out of the market until it's something more manageable...so quit dreaming otherwise... I'd prefer an all Privately-funded mortgage market, but I'm not sure that we'll see it for at least 5-10 years until the GSE's can recoup some of these staggering losses...(outside of the Jumbo market, of course)... And in all seriousness - when the Goal of Fannie and Freddie is to..."    View Comment

"Yeah, Paul, you are exactly right - it's all the bank's faults...after 3 years gone by...it's all the bank's faults...not Wall Street's...not the Investor's...not Main Street...not anyone who participated in the greed of making money...just the Bank's greed...that's all... Adam, Interesting take though on the reality of buybacks...I've only read one, maybe two other articles hinting at the difficulties of the legislation process for these to actually take place..."    View Comment

"Thanks for the one-liner, AQ. That saved me from reading the entire thing ;)"    View Comment

"who's Kent Mikkola??? does he work for Lehman Brothers???"    View Comment