Administration Won’t Estimate Total Losses of Fannie and Freddie

Posted by Kendall Harmon

This is the culmination of an unprecedented policy disaster, inflicted on the American taxpayer by congressional supporters of Fannie and Freddie who refused over many years to approve new and tougher regulations for the two GSEs. Now that many of these folks are in charge of the House and Senate committees that deal with financial reform, they have suddenly found new respect for regulation and are trying to apply it to the entire financial system. Perhaps the American taxpayers, acting as voters in 2010, will decide that one disaster per career is all they should be allowed.

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Filed under: * Economics, PoliticsEconomyHousing/Real Estate MarketThe U.S. GovernmentThe National DeficitPolitics in GeneralHouse of RepresentativesSenate

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