(B)(N) Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae – A Love Story

Drama. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were sweethearts/Beloved of the Government and True as the Blue Blue Sky/And to the Wall Street they went to fetch a bag of money/And the market obliged and Fannie swooned and Freddie came tumbling after. The moral of this story is that when the government gets involved with any kind of investment such as in health care, pension plans, student loans, or mortgages and bank bailouts, just open your duffel bag or the back of your van and wait for the money to jump in – the $40,000 that we put into Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae in 2012 is now worth $1.4 million in cash (at the stop/loss prices) and it’s still paying us $17,000 a month in dividends.

This ♥extraordinary market♥ in just two stocks returned +3400% in dividends and capital gains in the last five years and an average of +104% per year with no risk at all and it just can’t stop paying us and we’re pleased to continue to work this market for as long as it exists; please Exhibit 1 below for more details.

The good news is that it wasn’t you, the taxpayer, who gave us all that money – at least not yet – but it was the other investors in these stocks who gave it to us – what else can we say – while they were trying to figure-out day-by-day, month after month, what the government was going to do next.

But we didn’t know either and all that we knew, for sure, was what and when the investors were willing to pay for these stocks and we didn’t need a crystal ball – all that we needed was a stock chart, a ruler, and a good eye and a little money to invest and ♥they did the rest♥; please see Exhibit 1 below (and click on it and again to make it larger as required).

Exhibit 1: (B)(N) Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae

For more examples of the (B)-class portfolio in difficult markets, please see our recent Posts on”The “W” Syndrome“, Steel,  Green Energy, UFOs and the High Flying Techs, and The Coal War which is heating-up again now; and the Canadian Mines have also taken-off – please see our recent Post “(B)(N) Extreme Economics – The (New) Canadian Mines” for a heads-up on that as well as The Great Rotation & Twenty Hot Canadians 2017.

And for more information and examples of the Free Market Yield and the terms that we have used above, please see our Posts “(P&I) The Dismal Equation (Ecclesiastes 9:1)” and “(B)(N) S&P 100 Volatility Risk and The Full Moon” and “(B)(N) NASDAQ 100 Volatility and The Stone Bunnies“ and for an introduction to The Barometer “(B)(N) What’s A Girl To Do” or “(P&I) The Swiss Franc Debacle“.

And for more information on real “risk management” in modern times and additional references to the theory and how to read the charts and tables, please see our Post, The RiskWerk Company Glossary and “(P&I) Dividend Risk and Dividend Yield“, and our recent Posts “(P&I) The Profit Box” and “(P&I) The Process – In The Beginning“; and we’ve also profiled hundreds of companies in these Posts and the Search Box (upper right) might help you to find what you’re looking for, such as “(B)(N) TLM Talisman Energy Incorporated” or “(B)(N) ATHN AthenaHealth Incorporated” or “(B)(N) PETM PetSmart Incorporated“, to name just a few.

And for more applications of these concepts please see our Posts which rely on the Theory of the Firm developed by the author (Goetze 2006) which calibrates The Process to the units of the balance sheet and demonstrates the price of risk as the solution to a Nash Equilibrium between “risk-seeking” and “risk-averse” investors within the demonstrated societal norms of risk aversion and bargaining practice. And for more on The Process, please see our Posts The Food Chain and The Process End-Of-Process.

And for more on what risk averse investing has done for us this year, please see our recent Posts on “(P&I) The Easy (EC) Theory of the Capital Markets” or “(B)(N) The Easy (EC) Theory of the S&P 500“, and the past, The S&P TSX “Hangdog” Market or The Wall Street Put or specialty markets such as The Dow Transports & Utilities or (B)(N) The Woods Are Burning, or for the real class action, La Dolce Vita – Let’s Do Prada! and It’s For You, Dear on the smartphone business.

And for more stocks at high prices, The World’s Most Talked About Stocks or Earnings Don’t Matter – NASDAQ 100. And for more on what’s Working in America, Big Oil, Shopping in America or Banking in America, to name just a few.

Postscript

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