If the corp pays you (or any shareholder) a dividend, that's paid using the corporation's after tax money.

They should be completely privatized immediately, and the shareholders should be subject to the same risks that any other stock has.

If you WERE a share holding in Fannie and Freddie, run along and enjoy the beating.

How is that in their best interest or to the benefit of their shareholders?

As a shareholder of Wells Fargo, I invite all to bring their deposits to Wells Fargo.

All profits and losses pass right through to the shareholders.

You can also do it as an LLC with the investors buying units.Normally in a winding down, lenders come ahead of shareholders/members in the distribution of any remaining funds.

While we are all sleeping the FED uses our personally deposited funds to make investments for it's shareholders in the overseas markets.

The other way is once you reach a certain size in asset value and shareholder equity and number of shareholders they will relax it.

In a lawsuit, the residents of a condo building, or SHAREHOLDERS, can be liable and sacked with a small or very large "special assessment"I'd also watch out for any upcoming construction on the building, and any plans for construction around the building.