and move to have these. tized? absolutely, we ve got get them out of government ownership. it makes no sense that these are owned by the government and had been controlled by the government for as long as they have. okay. so tuesday, that guy gets picked for treasury secretary. wednesday, he goes on tv and says the government should privatize fannie and freddie. the government should release those two government run mortgage companies back into the wild. and then look what happened after he said that. one of the big jest jumps in stock trieses those companies have seen since the crash, since the government took them over in the crash of 2008. look at that. you know, when you re the nominee to be treasury secretary, your words can have an effect like that. one person says something, and the stock takes off like a rocket. you know, if you can imagine, right? if you re president or president-elect, could you make
says the government should privatize fannie and freddie. the government should release those two government run mortgage companies back into the wild. and then look what happened after he said that. boing. one of the big jest jumps in stock trieses those companies have seen since the crash, since the government took them over in the crash of 2008. look at that. you know, when you re the nominee to be treasury secretary, your words can have an effect like that. one person says something, and the stock takes off like a rocket. you know, if you can imagine, right? if you re president or president-elect, could you make a lot of money if you sent your people out to make pronouncements like that while you held investments that could benefit from the impact of their words. you could make a ton of money. you see where this is going? because we don t have the president-elect s tax returns but he did file a financial disclosure while he was running for president.
tuesday november 29th. the very next day, wednesday, november 30th, that same hedge fund guy went on tv and said what he thought should happen with a really big portion of the american economy. would you move to change fanny and freddie at this point and move to have these. tized? absolutely, we ve got get them out of government ownership. it makes no sense that these are owned by the government and had been controlled by the government for as long as they have. okay. so tuesday, that guy gets picked for treasury secretary. wednesday, he goes on tv and says the government should privatize fannie and freddie. the government should release those two government run mortgage companies back into the wild. and then look what happened after he said that. boing. one of the big jest jumps in stock trieses those companies have seen since the crash, since the government took them over in the crash of 2008.