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The Epic Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Bailout

[ 2 ] September 19, 2008

Last week we saw the unprecedented move by the US Federal government when they seized the assets of floundering mortgage goliaths Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.  In doing so they instituted a 15 month nationalization program which was popularly viewed as a temporary necessity in order to curb the further unraveling of the national credit [...]