🏛️ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac get taken out of conservatorship
Chamath's named-mechanism call inside the housing debate: the administration figures out how to get Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of conservatorship, ending the taxpayer-funded guarantee wrap that has been propping up the US mortgage market and the artificially inflated home prices it supports. The GSE common equity is the direct expression of an exit; the read-through for housing itself is lower prices once the prop is removed.
⚖ Why this verdict
fully deterministic — evaluate.py replays this from daily closes; nothing below is editable or hand-set
- Window: 2025-03-15 → 2026-03-15 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▲ LONG FNMA (primary play). FNMA rose 4.8% over the window → direction-adjusted R = +4.8% (the call made money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +18.1% → α = +4.8 − (+18.1) = -13.3% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
- Rule fired:
· HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5· PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0▶ MISS — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a MISS earn 0 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. supported: Chamath | proxy-sensitive: FMCC→PARTIAL (+9.1%)
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2025-03-15)
Plays
| expression | symbol | kind | relevance | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ LONG | FNMA | stock | PRIMARY | Fannie Mae common — the direct instrument on a conservatorship exit |
| ▲ LONG | FMCC | stock | adjacent | Freddie Mac common — same policy catalyst, trades as a pair with FNMA |
Mention log
Who built this conviction
each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -29.8 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E219 2025-03-15 | init | +35.7 | 35.7 | E219 born by Chamath (explicit_prediction x2) [w=1.02] |
| E220 2025-03-22 | decay | -1.4 | 34.3 | E220 silent |
| E221 2025-03-29 | decay | -1.4 | 32.9 | E221 silent |
| E222 2025-04-05 | decay | -1.3 | 31.6 | E222 silent |
| E223 2025-04-11 | decay | -1.3 | 30.3 | E223 silent |
| E224 2025-04-19 | decay | -1.2 | 29.1 | E224 silent |
| E225 2025-04-26 | decay | -1.2 | 28.0 | E225 silent |
| E226 2025-05-02 | decay | -1.1 | 26.8 | E226 silent |
| E227 2025-05-09 | decay | -1.1 | 25.8 | E227 silent |
| E228 2025-05-17 | decay | -1.0 | 24.7 | E228 silent |
| E229 2025-05-24 | decay | -1.0 | 23.8 | E229 silent |
| E231 2025-06-13 | decay | -1.0 | 22.8 | E231 silent |
| E232 2025-06-21 | decay | -0.9 | 21.9 | E232 silent |
| E233 2025-06-28 | decay | -0.9 | 21.0 | E233 silent |
| E234 2025-07-04 | decay | -0.8 | 20.2 | E234 silent |
| E235 2025-07-11 | decay | -0.8 | 19.4 | E235 silent |
| E236 2025-07-19 | decay | -0.8 | 18.6 | E236 silent |
| E237 2025-08-01 | decay | -0.7 | 17.8 | E237 silent |
| E238 2025-08-09 | decay | -0.7 | 17.1 | E238 silent |
| E239 2025-08-15 | decay | -0.7 | 16.4 | E239 silent |
| E240 2025-08-22 | decay | -0.7 | 15.8 | E240 silent |
| E241 2025-08-29 | decay | -0.6 | 15.2 | E241 silent |
| E242 2025-09-07 | decay | -0.6 | 14.6 | E242 silent |
| E243 2025-09-19 | decay | -0.6 | 14.0 | E243 silent |
| E244 2025-09-27 | decay | -0.6 | 13.4 | E244 silent |
| E245 2025-10-03 | decay | -0.5 | 12.9 | E245 silent |
| E246 2025-10-10 | decay | -0.5 | 12.4 | E246 silent |
| E247 2025-10-17 | decay | -0.5 | 11.9 | E247 silent |
| E248 2025-10-24 | decay | -0.5 | 11.4 | E248 silent |
| E249 2025-10-31 | decay | -0.5 | 10.9 | E249 silent |
| E250 2025-11-07 | decay | -0.4 | 10.5 | E250 silent |
| E251 2025-11-14 | decay | -0.4 | 10.1 | E251 silent |
| E252 2025-11-22 | decay | -0.4 | 9.7 | E252 silent |
| E253 2025-12-06 | decay | -0.4 | 9.3 | E253 silent |
| E254 2025-12-13 | decay | -0.4 | 8.9 | E254 silent |
| E255 2025-12-19 | decay | -0.4 | 8.6 | E255 silent |
| E256 2025-12-31 | decay | -0.3 | 8.2 | E256 silent |
| E257 2026-01-10 | decay | -0.3 | 7.9 | E257 silent |
| E258 2026-01-17 | decay | -0.3 | 7.6 | E258 silent |
| E259 2026-01-30 | decay | -0.3 | 7.3 | E259 silent |
| E260 2026-02-07 | decay | -0.3 | 7.0 | E260 silent |
| E261 2026-02-13 | decay | -0.3 | 6.7 | E261 silent |
| E262 2026-02-28 | decay | -0.3 | 6.4 | E262 silent |
| E263 2026-03-06 | decay | -0.3 | 6.2 | E263 silent |
| E264 2026-03-13 | decay | -0.2 | 5.9 | E264 silent |