Accounting, Fair Value Help Blunt 2Q Woes for GSEs
August 12, 2009
Freddie Mac actually cranked out a little bit of net income, $768 million, for the second quarter, and if hadn’t been for the GSE’s $1.1 billion payout to the Treasury Department as compensation for its support thus far, the company might have reported almost $2 billion in income. Fannie Mae, meanwhile, could only report it had substantially cut its losses for the... [Includes one chart]