Obama Set to Turn Secondary Market on Its Head With ‘Good Bank, Bad Bank’ Approach to Assets
August 7, 2009
Renewed talk about radical restructuring of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through a “good bank, bad bank” approach is raising concerns about investor confidence in the government-sponsored enterprises’ massive MBS programs as well as their future viability. Under the concept still being developed and debated within the Obama administration, the bad assets of the two GSEs would be...