Report: Treasury Will Inject Capital Into Fannie, Freddie

If it wasn't for the damn press we'd most likely not even be in this situation. Too much talk with a bunch of heard mentality minded people listening to every word. Why are we in this mess in the first place! Obvious that the current administration has left the common stockholder without a paddle once again! If they think this will resolve the situation on hand then they are sadly mistaken. It's going to take much more. Let's see how this ends up turning out. I doubt anyone but big business will end up profiting as usual.

I bailed out.....guess I was right afterall! so take the loss carry forward and buy bank stocks they will benift from the bailout.

I was wondering why I had not heard about any more bank closings, I googled FDIC bank failures.... its unreal... up to 30 from 9 just 2 weeks ago. Its going to be a cover up that cannot be swallowed by the tax payers. NO WAY. The feds have a website that lists the name of the bank and the month if failed... look at 2008.... Bail them out? Screw them. Let the chips fall where they may my old Commanding Officer use to say. Todays big news was about a UPS truck that went 1million miles. Get Real.....The Media has no spine to report whats really happening. I have watched the conventions... VOTE and hope to hell someone cuts the cord on this mess. Evgeniy your right on. And to the Imigrant turned from Canibal to Christian, God ain't in this one, only the Devil is on Wall Street and in DC, lol.....

I am in general a conservative, but I have to disagree with the poster who compares buying shares in FNM and FRE to buying PET.COM shares. Folks investing in these companies were after the dividend and assumed these to be very safe investments. There is no way that wiping common in these companies would not come back to haunt us. Tax-payers will end up paying one way or another - when all the pensioners who relied on the GSE for income - directly or indirectly - would need supplemental income. I also don't know of any other country in the world that would let their major banks fail. Japan didn't, and neither did China, nor Russia. I think defending these financial institutions is a matter of national security. We cannot afford for the world to lose confidence in our financial system. We aren't defending unscrupulous investors who put their money in PET.COM - this is FNM and FRE we are talking about. If they aren't safe then nothing is - not even treasuries.

I am in general a conservative, but I have to disagree with the poster who compares buying shares in FNM and FRE to buying PET.COM shares. Folks investing in these companies were after the dividend and assumed these to be very safe investments. There is no way that wiping common in these companies would not come back to haunt us. Tax-payers will end up paying one way or another - when all the pensioners who relied on the GSE for income - directly or indirectly - would need supplemental income. I also don't know of any other country in the world that would let their major banks fail. Japan didn't, and neither did China, nor Russia. I think defending these financial institutions is a matter of national security. We cannot afford for the world to lose confidence in our financial system. We aren't defending unscrupulous investors who put their money in PET.COM - this is FNM and FRE we are talking about. If they aren't safe then nothing is - not even treasuries.

I am in general a conservative, but I have to disagree with the poster who compares buying shares in FNM and FRE to buying PET.COM shares. Folks investing in these companies were after the dividend and assumed these to be very safe investments. There is no way that wiping common in these companies would not come back to haunt us. Tax-payers will end up paying one way or another - when all the pensioners who relied on the GSE for income - directly or indirectly - would need supplemental income. I also don't know of any other country in the world that would let their major banks fail. Japan didn't, and neither did China, nor Russia. I think defending these financial institutions is a matter of national security. We cannot afford for the world to lose confidence in our financial system. We aren't defending unscrupulous investors who put their money in PET.COM - this is FNM and FRE we are talking about. If they aren't safe then nothing is - not even treasuries.

I am in general a conservative, but I have to disagree with the poster who compares buying shares in FNM and FRE to buying PET.COM shares. Folks investing in these companies were after the dividend and assumed these to be very safe investments. There is no way that wiping common in these companies would not come back to haunt us. Tax-payers will end up paying one way or another - when all the pensioners who relied on the GSE for income - directly or indirectly - would need supplemental income. I also don't know of any other country in the world that would let their major banks fail. Japan didn't, and neither did China, nor Russia. I think defending these financial institutions is a matter of national security. We cannot afford for the world to lose confidence in our financial system. We aren't defending unscrupulous investors who put their money in PET.COM - this is FNM and FRE we are talking about. If they aren't safe then nothing is - not even treasuries.

Damages were done and couldn't be undo, the infection is spreading rapidly, fever occured. It's useless no matter how vocal your voice will be, control is still in the Gov. and the big guys hands, all you could do is how to stop the inflamation and recovery. The next 6 months will be one of the worst half years in the history because there are another 2/3 of the veiled bad loan are ready to emerge, more banks will be taken over by the Gov. This is a world of predator, WE little people are always on the bottom of the food chain. All laws and rules are just for sugar coating and all news from wherever sources must has its own interest behind it. However, there is still lots of valuable information in it, make good use of it, but you don't have to believe it totally, use your natural instinct to justify. US has been living on debt since 30 years ago plus the war and the world wide financial crises. Personally, I don't think our Gov. is capable to safe the mortage giants but keep giving you high dose of numbing pills until the pills are no longer effective, by then you are already a piece of dead meat . Don't be so naive to think that our Gov. will help you, you are the only one to save yourself.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae stocks are NOT the same as US Treasuries. Just to make this clear, I will repeat. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae stocks are NOT the same as US Treasuries. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae stocks were NOT backed by the full faith and credit of the US government. Just to make this clear, I will repeat. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae stocks were NOT backed by the full faith and credit of the US government.

You take a risk when you buy shares in a company. That's why they call it "investing" instead of "free money for you". Of course the shareholders should loose out. We put our money in a poorly run company and now it's going down the tubes, it's called capitalism folks, that's the way the system works. The government wouldn't be bailing them out except for the fact that our economy would most likely collapse if they didn't. The taxpayers are the ones getting screwed as usual.

I lost money on Wachovia Bank, when will my Government bailout check arrive, can anyone tell me?

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This isn't Capitalism, it is Socialism. We better privatize the airlines and automakers wjile we are at it. Better yet, privitize the nation. Then we can let the government crooks turn us into a third workd nation. FRE and FNM was an inside job from the beginning. Greenspan-Gross should run for the Presidency. If they weren't so greedy and selfish they would play by the rules. But then again, they make the rules! In this crappy market I just wish I had something with a gain (what is a gain?!) to net out my losses in these two Trojan horses called GSE's. I am just so elated that it is the taxpayer and not Greenspan-Gross taking it on the chin! How did Gordon Gecko out it, "Greed is Good". Notice all the G's, must be some kind of Bible Code. See you all at the Long Term Capital Loss line!

Thanks to our president... Nice Jobs Bush.

$ 800 Billion!!!! Here comes the biiiiiiig inflation.... $ 29 billion in a weekend deal for Bear Stearns took Gold to $ 1035/oz. Wonder what $ 800 billion will do!!

if that's true and that the bailout comes the week end the market gonna open some 2 to 3% higher, where it closed down on wednesday probably

Yet another example of how bogus our "free market" is. Yet more government meddling and yet another bailout using taxpayer (little guy) money to bail out the status quo at the expense of the little guy (shareholder). Watch the market go crazy on Monday. Not because any of the companies whose shares go up 10% are good, well-run companies, but rather because the government again reminds us one more time that there is no penalty for business being reckless, abusive and corrupt.

Another example of Republican BS? Small government. yea right. How does McCain think he is going to cut taxes while spending a billion a day on a war in Iraq, and a trillion plus a year bailing out private businesses to line the pockets of cronies? Oh yeah, more national debt! If people in this country are stupid enough to vote the crooks and liars back into office in November, I'm immigrating. This country is going to hell in so many ways right now.

My guess is the market will be up 3-4% on Monday, with the XLF going nuts. If you are short through options, too bad. If you are short through ETFs, just hold on. The market will tank again back to at least 11000, probably lower. Like previous bailouts, this is just sucking wind to let insiders get out of bad positions and get richer. In the long term, it doesn't do anything but postpone the inevitable. Why? A bailoud does nothing to address the real problem, which is individuals suffering under bad mortgages and job losses. This is just another money-shifting exercise.

omglook, Sorry to be a wet blanket, but it's much worse anywhere else on the planet. So I wonder where you will go...

If the lender can not pay....Why not the government buy their property and rent them back instead to them at affordable price.Than expensive repossession........Democrazy is not only owning property but also renting property that we called home.I call Mr. Obama or Mr Mcain....Will they do something better than this.