Private shareholders own 20 percent of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but collect none of the profits. Is it legal?
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The Lender Of First Resort

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Private lenders took a flop when the housing bubble popped. Now the government offers them another chance to kick that football.
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Wanting Spinach To Taste Like Ice Cream

The president wants to fortify the housing market with some policy spinach, but he promises to make it taste like ice cream.
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Some people go along to get along, but when going along means wasting taxpayers’ money, Ed DeMarco lacks such social graces.
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Congress isn’t as much fun without the gavel, so Barney Frank is moving on.
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A Bloomberg columnist challenged readers to “prove” Obama is a bad president. Here you go.
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Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is a personal friend whom I have known for 35 years. My college roommate was his …
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Three years after the housing market’s collapse, the federal government finds itself backing nine out of every 10 new residential …
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President Obama is moving aggressively to stamp out what he calls “reckless risk” on Wall Street. The place for reckless …
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With unemployment in double digits and elections less than a year away, the search for an economic boogeyman is in …
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