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GSE ‘Sweep’ Increases Taxpayer Risk

October 19, 2012
Advocates for GSE reform say recent actions by the Treasury and the Federal Housing Finance Agency have made it more important than ever for policymakers to start moving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac away from government support or risk seeing the two enterprises enveloped forever within the federal budget. Two former Bush administration Treasury officials made their case this week in a Washington Post opinion piece, citing the government’s recent sale of stock in insurance giant American International Group to recoup the bailout billions Uncle Sam floated the company during the financial crisis as an admittedly inexact blueprint for Congress and the White House to follow to get the feds out of Fannie and Freddie.
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