• February 13, 2012
  • A LITTLE TOO LONG ON THE BUSINESS DESK: Here’s a wry bit of Gallows Humor from the Associated Press: “Kellermann’s death is the latest in a string of blows to Freddie Mac, which owns or guarantees about 13 million mortgages and us the No. 2 mortgage finance company after sibling Fannie Mae.” [AP]

{ 26 comments }

honkeyman April 22, 2009 at 2:17 pm

“string of blows” – heh.

Carrie_Okie April 22, 2009 at 2:19 pm

Did he die with his trucknutz on?

Custerwolf April 22, 2009 at 2:25 pm

Jimmy darling, it appears U and I are a little mixed up.

groove April 22, 2009 at 2:25 pm

[sic] that “us.” Should be “is.”

Bothered the crap out of me…

ihasasad April 22, 2009 at 2:26 pm

Yes, but who is Kaption King or Qaption Queen?

JMP April 22, 2009 at 2:27 pm

Now see, top executives of AIG, Citibank, Wachovia/Wells Fargo, Lehman Bros., etc.: this is how it’s done. Mr. Kellerman has provided a good example for you to follow.

lukewarm April 22, 2009 at 2:27 pm

us?

Zbigniew Chrysler April 22, 2009 at 2:27 pm

Hm, the typo was (still is) in the original.

lukewarm April 22, 2009 at 2:28 pm

you guys are faster.

SayItWithWookies April 22, 2009 at 2:30 pm

I hope they’re both doing better soon.

Come here a minute April 22, 2009 at 2:33 pm

Here’s a guy who was serious about going Galt.

chascates April 22, 2009 at 2:38 pm

Poor Freddie Mac! Committing suicide just as he was needed. Jerk!

proudgrampa April 22, 2009 at 2:45 pm

Pathetic.

BlueStateLibtard April 22, 2009 at 2:48 pm

Come here a minute: You laugh, but who’ll be left to ruin the rest of our financial industry and and send U.S. jobs to Southeast Asia? Libs never have an answer for that.

Bronkers April 22, 2009 at 2:48 pm

If Freddie owns me, I want to be a major legatee in the will. Nuts to Fannie; sis can be left with a pittance (which may be truer than I wish to contemplate) If he guarantees me, man, I want to know just what ’bout me he’s guarantee-ing.

Aurelio April 22, 2009 at 2:49 pm

Kellermann’s death is the latest in a string of blows to Freddie Mac…. Yep, just like a worthless derivative. Did a human being write this stuff?

KittyLitter April 22, 2009 at 2:57 pm

I didn’t realize Freddie Mac owns the AP. THAT explains Ron Fournier.

Lord Growing April 22, 2009 at 3:02 pm

Roxana Saberi’s imprisonment in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison is the latest in a string of blows to the newspaper industry…

Scandinavian Fetus April 22, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Was this another Crickett caption?

Mad Farmer Manifest April 22, 2009 at 3:27 pm

[re=296508]Aurelio[/re]: No, they have soulless homonculi to write this sort of thing.

brown_recluse April 22, 2009 at 3:47 pm

Why do all of these powerful, unfailable conglomerates have names straight out of The Waltons?

DangerousLiberal April 22, 2009 at 3:48 pm

This totally sucks. Whatever is up at Freddie Mac (christ, who names these things?) it’s not worth killing yourself. Dude probably had a family. I personally feel really shitty about this.

You may now return to your originally scheduled snark.

Custerwolf April 22, 2009 at 4:02 pm

[re=296604]DangerousLiberal[/re]: Well, I have to say that this guy spent YEARS fashioning his own noose – I just don’t think he believed the day would actually come when the course of events would kick the chair out from underneath him. And now his family are the one’s left hanging. It’s a shitty, shitty, shitty deal. Yes.

Aurelio April 22, 2009 at 4:12 pm

In Japan, this would be an obligation.

smellyal8r April 22, 2009 at 8:10 pm

Well, I guess since he killed himself, there’s a lot more to this story than we all know. I suspect graft on a massive scale that will be uncovered by FOX News or the Washington Times in about 15 minutes.

Bruno April 22, 2009 at 8:52 pm

I’m tired of the expression ‘going postal’ can we start saying ‘going freddie’ now?

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