Correct. Fannie, Freddie, Ginnie. If you add all 4, it’s ~95% of the US mortgage market. (I don’t keep a live tracker of these numbers, update once or twice a year, could be slightly outdated.)

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If they own the fucking homes, what is left to be owned?

The people in them 😳

At least they have Netflix

The Bitcoin you put up as speculative attack collateral.

The only asset that you can still easily take custody of and move around.

So there basically isn’t a market of willing lenders for people to finance homes, the whole market is fake

Fake and gay

There are, it’s just that the MBS that Fannie and Freddie offer are *unofficially* backstopped from default, even though the market assumes they are. Ginnie is explicitly backstopped. So the real issue is a perverse incentive caused by government intervention, which creates an asset bubble…as is tradition.

If you’d like to learn more about the nuances of these entities, here’s the latest update from the best person I know on the topic, Alex Pollock. https://youtu.be/j4IriSJ0kmE

Thanks

nostr:npub1ghcetnluhryhynhuyj8s2pazldjm27wl40nu6dfeskvpv09twcnsneygat you’d like this too. Educational