(siehe Link in # 410) auf Seeking-Alpha.
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https://www.ariva.de/forum/...f-verdreifachung-bis-juli-574209#bottom
Doppelganger522 24 Jun. 2021, 3:21 PM | So here's my beef with this article... when you talking about shorting something after it's already gone down like 80% in the past year... you're pretty confident that the thing is going to zero. Also... when you're talking about shorting something that's already gone down 80% in the past year, you're kind of an ass. Because if you thought it was a good short opportunity, you should've written this article a week ago explaining why.
Looking in the rearview mirror AFTER a 60% drop in a day and recommending that people possibly short this thing NOW is just a massive fail imo.
What, prey tell, is the impetus for FNMAS moving meaningfully lower? Do you think the SCOTUS is gonna come out with a more harsh ruling? What's the catalyst to drive this thing down lower at this point? Honest question. Because i see nothing more than a consolidation / stabilization phase now, where people have updated their risk / reward forumulas, recalculated what they believe these things to be worth, and it's about where we're at now.
Is there an impetus for 20% of fannie mae to be worth zero? Because that's what the privately owned shares represent. 20% of the companies. If they're worth zero, then the entire companies are worth zero. Because you frankly can't say "only the 80% of the company that party x holds has value, but the 20% that party y holds is worthless." That pig doesn't fly.
The government can't just say, "we're gonna take 80% of these things, run them for 10 years in CONSERVATORSHIP STATUS, then declare they're worthless... and give the remaining 20% holders nothing in return. That's just not how anything, ANYTHING works. So much corporate and financial law would be undone by such a precident. Because remember, this isn't just the government versus private shareholders, it's also MAJORITY / tier 1 shareholder versus minority / common shareholders. If the majority shareholder is ruled to be allowed to just say, "nah plebs, you get nothing," people need to reassess all their berkshire and google investments.
Hell... everything with a majority controlling shareholder and multiple share classes would fall into that quagmire. I honestly believe it'd be the end of "investing in america." Because you're basically telling people that not only can the government take anything that they want, at any time, for any reason, just because it suits them to do so... you're also telling people that the government doesn't even need to compensate them... and you're also telling them, "oh by the way, it's not just the government, it's literally anyone with any power, influence, or control, anywhere, can just take your stuff."
I always use this example, but here it is again. Facebook is a national security concern. The government decides to nationalize them, so that they can better control the "potential damage to election integrity." And they just tell the shareholders, yeah... we're just gonna take ownership, take profits, and leave you as the figurehead owners of 20% of the shares, but you have no right to sue, or receive any compensation.
Tell me again how that CAN'T happen if we live in this imagined world of F&F where shareholders (particularly JPS) get nothing?
If the government wanted to nationalize these things, they should have done so LEGALLY by putting them into receivership (as allowed by HERA), selling the pieces to themselves, and buying the bulk of the business for whatever the market value was at the time. Just because they tried to skate around all existing corporate, shareholder, and constitutional law, making new rules as they went along doesn't make it okay, right, or legal.
This isn't a walgreens in san franscisco. You don't just get to go and take whatever you want without paying. And frankly, if the impression that shorties have is that the government CAN do whatever they want, then you should be shorting the entire economy, every american company, and the entire world financial system, because you're basically saying that every investment can go to zero, at literally any point just because the government decides to make it so. |