Comments on: Lockhart On The Fall of Fannie and Freddie http://housingdoom.com/2008/09/24/lockhart-on-the-fall-of-fannie-and-freddie/ Thu, 24 May 2012 01:57:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: twist http://housingdoom.com/2008/09/24/lockhart-on-the-fall-of-fannie-and-freddie/#comment-14211 twist Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:57:07 +0000 http://housingdoom.com/?p=1649#comment-14211 Metro- The Manhattan housing market should get interesting. There's a lot of new supply coming on as the bonuses are dropping off. While GS said it had no plans for layoffs, as CNBC pointed out, what do they do with the traders? Turn them into bank tellers? NYC is heavily dependent on the financial industry. This isn't going to be pretty. Metro-

The Manhattan housing market should get interesting. There’s a lot of new supply coming on as the bonuses are dropping off. While GS said it had no plans for layoffs, as CNBC pointed out, what do they do with the traders? Turn them into bank tellers?

NYC is heavily dependent on the financial industry. This isn’t going to be pretty.

]]> By: metroplexual http://housingdoom.com/2008/09/24/lockhart-on-the-fall-of-fannie-and-freddie/#comment-14210 metroplexual Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:19:04 +0000 http://housingdoom.com/?p=1649#comment-14210 Yeah MikeC, But you can bet that that headline was poorly timed. they won't get it if Paulson wants his package. All of the excess of this gilded age is over. Mark my words, the guys who caused this are mud, so no bonuses. FYI, I live in the suburbs of NYC and this will wreak havoc on the local economy, afterall the financial center of the US has moved from NYC to DC /NOVA. Yeah MikeC,

But you can bet that that headline was poorly timed. they won’t get it if Paulson wants his package. All of the excess of this gilded age is over. Mark my words, the guys who caused this are mud, so no bonuses.

FYI, I live in the suburbs of NYC and this will wreak havoc on the local economy, afterall the financial center of the US has moved from NYC to DC /NOVA.

]]> By: MikeC http://housingdoom.com/2008/09/24/lockhart-on-the-fall-of-fannie-and-freddie/#comment-14209 MikeC Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:40:06 +0000 http://housingdoom.com/?p=1649#comment-14209 Methinks "bankrupt" doesn't mean what I thought it meant.: "Lehman Brothers Still Paying Out $2.5B of Bonuses to 10,000 Workers" http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/23/lehman-brothers-still-paying-out-25b-of-bonuses-to-10000-workers/ Methinks “bankrupt” doesn’t mean what I thought it meant.: “Lehman Brothers Still Paying Out $2.5B of Bonuses to 10,000 Workers” http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/23/lehman-brothers-still-paying-out-25b-of-bonuses-to-10000-workers/

]]> By: metroplexual http://housingdoom.com/2008/09/24/lockhart-on-the-fall-of-fannie-and-freddie/#comment-14208 metroplexual Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:56:13 +0000 http://housingdoom.com/?p=1649#comment-14208 And did you catch this one about Davis in the McCain Campaign? I have been told it is all true by someone who knows the guy. Nice to see it is impacting the Presidential election. Freddie is toast. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html And did you catch this one about Davis in the McCain Campaign? I have been told it is all true by someone who knows the guy. Nice to see it is impacting the Presidential election. Freddie is toast.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html

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