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Friday, January 27, 2012

Antoinette Schoar: The case for unwinding Fannie and Freddie

MIT Sloan Experts



Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:17 AM PST
From CBS News Today Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–two government-sponsored enterprises originally designed to increase the availability of loans and thereby raise levels of home ownership–dominate the US mortgage lending market. Fannie Mae, which was established in 1938 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, provides local banks with federal money to finance home [...]

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