Monday, May 17, 2010

What is the real U.S. budget deficit when the GSEs are not kept off the balance sheet?

"...the GSEs enjoy not only the constant "bid of first refusal" courtesy of the Fed's MBS QE program, but an explicit Treasury guarantee that has no ceiling as of last Christmas eve...

...Fannie and Freddie belong on the balance sheet if we're in an era of transparency. The White House is already forecasting $1.3 trillion budget deficit for 2011, which is about $3 of spending for every $2 of government receipts. Fannie and Freddie are wards of the State. Orszag already promised that that's where they should be. And he's not putting it there. Shades of Enron..."

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