http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/fannie Questions tagged with 'fannie' at Ask MetaFilter. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:04:49 -0800 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:04:49 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/104996/Looking%2Dfor%2Dlost%2Dinfographic%2Don%2Dcompanies%2Dmarket%2Dshare%2Din%2Dsubprime%2Dmarket Looking for an infographic I once saw that showed the market share of the major players in the subprime market and the money they'd lost. In September, I think, I saw a great infographic in a major publication online that showed the market share of the major players in, I think, the secondary subprime market. Could have been broader than just the subprime market, but it was all the names you saw in the news that were being affected by it due to their holdings. I could have sworn it was on the NYT's site but haven't been able to find it there again. <br> <br> It was 2D, but I think maybe interactive with rollovers. Each company, such as Lehman, Merrill, Fannie/Freddie, etc. were represented by differently colored squares of different sizes that represented proportionally their share of the market, or perhaps their overall market value? The squares all together represented the size of the whole market. The grid took up most of the screen, but there was a thinner vertical strip to the left with some other info. <br> <br> And there was information about the value of these companies at some point back in the Safe Time When Things Were Good, and then now (September whatever, in the thick of the meltdown.) So one or two of the companies' values were listed as zero because they had gone bust. I don't think that's what the square size represented - I think size represented their share of the market - but I think the real point of the infographic was to show the comparative drops in value of all of these companies in the subprime boat together.<br> <br> Did you see this? Do you have a link? Thanks. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.104996 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:04:49 -0800 economiccrisis fannie financialmeltdown freddie lehman merrill morgan mortgage resolved subprime Askr http://ask.metafilter.com/103119/Did%2DFannieFreddie%2Dcause%2Dthis%2Dmess Did Fannie and Freddie cause the current financial crisis? A co-worker and I are debating if Fannie and Freddie are at the center of the current financial meltdown we are experiencing. <br> <br> His hypothesis is something like Fannie and Freddie wanted to loan money to poor people, the democrats didn't want to stop that, and thus Fannie and Freddie made all the bad loans to poor people.. and finally the current meltdown..<br> <br> My hypothesis (which I have stole and synthesized from a few sources) is that Fannie and Freddie have his issues of the years but the majority of the bad loans were made by unregulated institutions and so Fannie and Freddie are more of a victim of this crisis.. not the cause. The issue really is that these unregulated lenders made a ton of bad loans.. sold them off.. and now no one knows what their piece of the 'shit pile' (h/t atrios) is worth.<br> <br> Lazyweb, please help me fight this battle. I'll take supporting evidence for either side.. I just want the truth. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.103119 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:44:20 -0800 credit fannie freddie market cowmix