1. Why have Fannie & Freddie been kept in conservatorship for 15 yrs? Because of demand for GSE "reform" based on an anti-GSE narrative used to distract away from the fatal flaws & institutionalized fraud of private label residential mortgage securitizations. An explainer 🧵
2. First, the business models of GSE securitizations and private label securitizations are antithetical. The GSEs retain and diversify all credit risk; the private label industry does the opposite.