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The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 was caused by the bursting of the housing bubble in the US, which was made worse by the near collapse of financial markets connected to mortgage-backed securities and derivatives. The crisis revived debates around regulating financial markets and using Keynesian policies to prevent deep recessions. Factors that contributed to the bubble included subprime mortgages, predatory lending practices, low interest rates, flawed credit ratings, and insufficient regulation of markets for mortgages and derivatives. Governments responded with bank bailouts and stimulus spending, while also implementing new regulations and international capital standards.
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The declining values in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stocks
in 2007–2008 were the result of risky mortgages and foreclosures.
This led to a surplus of declining real property values
in the United States and a significantly negative impact on
equity prices and financial markets in the United States and
around the world. It’s likely that this topic will be studied
for many years, as Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve
Chairman, has referred to it as a once-in-a-century “financial
tsunami.”
On the following page are graphic representations of the stock
price per share for Fannie Mae (FNM) (Figure 1) and Freddie
Mac (FRE) (Figure 2), the holders of approximately 50 percent
of the mortgages in the United States.
Instructions
Read the boxed article, “Reinflating Real Property Values,”
by A. J. Cataldo and Anthony P. Curatola, from Strategic
Finance, October 2008. Then respond to the questions that
follow. Feel free to use Google, Wikipedia, or any other reliable
Internet sources for your research. Be sure to verify your
answers by checking multiple sources.
reinflATing reAl ProPerTy VAlUes
By A. J. Cataldo, CMA, CPA, and Anthony P. Curatola
Reprinted with permission from Strategic Finance, October 2008.
On September 8, 2008, Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) and Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM), the holders of approximately 50% of mortgages in the United States, were seized by the U.S. government in a “bailout” that may cost American taxpayers between $100 billion and $300 billion. Effectively, owners of common equity saw the value of their holdings in these two firms decline by 80% to 90% as the common stock price per share for Freddie dropped from $5.10 to $0.88 per share and the common stock price per share for Fannie dropped from $7.04 to $0.73 per share.
Because short positions effectively increase the number of shares issued and outstanding, more than 110% of the shares of both Freddie and Fannie were held by institutions. Approximately
50% of the shares of Freddie and Fannie were traded on Monday, September 8, 2008, following the news of the seizure over the preceding weekend. While many possible solutions may be
under consideration, one possible fiscal policy-based answer may be to simply reduce the depreciable lives for residential real property, effectively increasing the net present value (and, therefore, the value) of these properties, if held for trade or business purposes. Some
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