Back in March of last year, the FHFA warned that Fannie and Freddie may well go bankrupt at which point taxpayers would once again be on the hook for subsidizing their own bad mortgage debt.
As you might recall, the Treasury changed the rules when it came to the GSEs a while back.
While many have observed that instead of pleading the Fifth, Martin Shkreli should have at least commented on his pricing practices which have been the cause of much consternation, one thing is clear: the young indicted CEO just declared war on Congress by tweeting that it is "Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government."
Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government.
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 4, 2016
As far as I know, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) is the first member of Congress to make a case against U.S. support for the war on Yemen in public. He spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations Friday:
Submitted by Richard Ebeling via EpicTimes.com,
President Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union address on January 12, 2016, and devoted most of the time to defending his “legacy” of bigger and more intrusive government, with an emphasis on the other aspects of personal and social life he wished could come under the blanket of more political paternalism, if only there was enough time before he leaves office on January 20, 2017.
Submitted by Justin Raimondo via AntiWar.com,