The stress tests address potential financial performance under three economic scenarios: baseline, adverse, severely adverse.

Freddie Mac, following in the footsteps of Fannie Mae, is offering buyouts to a portion of its workforce. A byproduct of the recap-and-release plan? It certainly looks that way.

One Freddie shareholder quipped: "It sounds like something their advisors would have recommended – to improve proforma [earnings] going into a capital raise."  

In 2017, Judge Sweeney ordered the government to produce many of these documents...

Ed Pinto: Owners of GSE common have no right to expect a bailout.