
Hand of God
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Hand of God
@TylerEHand
Life investment coach, father, husband, veteran. Invest early and often: spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally, financially, and relationally.


This is from a gas station in Phoenix yesterday: $6.49 for a gallon of gas. All because Trump started war with no plan and no idea how it would affect everyday Americans. I'm fighting to suspend the federal gas tax to bring families some relief, but what they really need is a president focused on lowering their costs.







To compliment the @BillAckman accurate description of the Net Worth Sweep of 100% of Fannie and Freddie profits, one must also look at how the Obama Treasury forced F2 to cook their books. Then Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner continued the Hank Paulson large bailout plan that exacerbated the mortgage market crisis and extended credit losses beyond the sand States. Geithner hired both Blackrock and Blackstone to direct F2 to find as many write downs as they could to justify the $100B each bailout that protected F2 bondholders. When F2 internal models were stressed they each could not come close to $100B in losses. Paulson and Geithner wrongly compared street private label mortgage losses to the relatively safer book of GSE mortgages failing to recognize that GSEs had strong first loss cover in private mortgage insurance and in bank legal obligations to repurchase fraudulent and defectively underwritten mortgages. Obama Treasury forced F2 to cook their books and zero out all PMI ($43B of trapped liquid claims paying ability) and all lender recourse (another $61B of liquid bank assets - $20B alone with BofA) that provided F2 legally obligated claims paying ability. Treasury ignored that first loss liquidity forcing F2 to post large credit provisions in 2008-2010. The policy was extend and pretend for the banks and PMIs but to force F2 into conservatorship. Yet the PMI and recourse funds were being collected while bad loan repurchases mushroomed. F2 also tightened the credit box and doubled GFees during this period. It was a total double standard to target F2 investors. In hindsight F2 never needed the bailouts for cash flow because the credit loss provisions and other valuation allowances were non-cash. The bailouts were optics done for mostly foreign bondholders. American homeowners and F2 shareholders were the victims of that failure. Then with the high non cash credit losses F2 each wrote off $31B and and $21B of Deferred Tax Assets in 2008 respectively. In 2009-2011 another $29B Fannie and $8B Freddie DTA write downs for a total of $89B. Combining the $104B non-cash credit losses with the $89B DTA write downs coincidentally equalled the amount of Treasury F2 bailout in Senior Preferred. Yet in 2010 and 2011 F2 were collecting the PMI, lender recourse, the higher GFees and trends started to look good for home price recovery. Treasury knew ahead of the NWS taking that F2 would be rolling in profits. Nonetheless F2 kept loan loss allowances high and gave no model value to the liquid PMI first loss claim receipts. They all knew ahead of 2012 that the DTAs and loan loss provisions would appear anomalous. Facing obvious valuation allowance reversals, Treasury rushed to implement the 2012 NWS. Smart folks inside witnessed the accounting and loan loss committee gimmickry - with some still working at F2.






The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time. The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more. But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.

I'm 34. I've spent 13 years in finance. I have a multimillion dollar net worth. These are 25 things I'll NEVER do with my money: (even if you pay me) 1. "Time the market." 2. Invest in anything I can't explain in a sentence. 3. Day trade. You're more likely to climb Everest than turn a profit. 4. Buy individual stocks. If 92% of investors can't beat an index fund, I'm not dumb enough to think I'm special. 5. Buy a new car off the lot. 6. Pay for insurance without getting 3 quotes first. 7. Lease a car. This is literally the worst financial product ever invented. 8. Pay minimums on a credit card. 9. Buy whole life insurance. 10. Take financial advice from broke people. 11. Die without a will. The government takes 30%+ and your kids get the scraps. 12. Use a financial advisor. 1% in "fees" can cost 28%+ of your lifetime returns. 13. Trust a "get rich quick" program. If it worked, they wouldn't be selling it. 14. Keep more than 3 weeks of expenses in checking. 15. Pay bank fees. Just switch banks if they won't waive them. 16. Use a savings account under 3% APY. HYSAs exist for a reason. 17. Celebrate a big tax refund. You literally gave the IRS a tax free loan. 18. Co-sign a loan for anyone. 19. Buy a house I won't live in for 5+ years 20. Refinance just to "lower your payment." 21. Skip the employer 401k match. It's literally part of your salary. 22. Fund my kids' college before securing my own retirement. 23. Pay a medical bill without asking for an itemized receipt. 80% of them have "mistakes." 24. Blame the economy for problems my budget created. 25. Wait for the "right time" to start investing. None of these are complicated. None of them require a degree. All of them are available to you. So save this before you forget it... And follow me @Budgetdog_ more 🤝🏻



Keeping GSEs in Conservatorship To Maintain Governmental Control For Purposes of National Housing Policy Is A Canard, by @RuleofLawGuy1 open.substack.com/pub/ruleoflawg… $fnma $fmcc





