Blame Barney for Fannie Mae's $7 Trillion in Liabilities

From Chris Fountain at For What its Worth comes this "surprising " news.

Gee, thanks a lot Barney.

Fannie Mae – “we’re even more bankrupt than we’ve admitted”

$7 trillion in liabilities, oh, taxpayer – that’s half the US debt. This one you really can blame on Barney “Fannie Mae is in no danger” Frank. This should be fun.

From ZeroHedge:

The bankruptcy of America is getting borderline hilarious, even as stock capitalization surges by about $1 trillion based on funny money to be printed by the ECB with the Fed’s assistance. In the second coming of moral hazard, one piece of news that some may have missed is Fannie Mae’s earlier announcement that the mortgage lender is now more bankrupt than ever before – the firm lost $13.1 billion in net income on $3 billion in revenue. “The first-quarter loss resulted in a net worth deficit of $8.4 billion as of March 31, 2010, taking into account a $3.3 billion reduction in our deficit related to the adoption of new accounting standards, as well as unrealized gains on available-forsale securities during the first quarter. The Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has therefore asked Treasury to provide us $8.4 billion on or prior to June 30, 2010.” Additionally, the Fed backstopped entity also announced that “there is uncertainty regarding future of business after conservatorship terminated and expect this uncertainty to continue.” But since in America asset prices have not reflected fundamentals in over a year, nobody gives a rat’s ass. And the political whores in DC feel like beating up anyone who even dares to mention this particular $7 trillion dollar question mark which is equivalent to 50% of total US debt, so expect no reform to happen here, just like nothing happened with HFT, until the markets hits 1 quadrillion or zero. For all intents and purposes, the two outcomes are equivalent.