UNITED STATES: Fannie, Freddie remain policy tools

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  • Original objectives
  • Strange transformation
  • Short-term profit focus
  • Implied guarantee
  • Increasing troubles
  • Excess leverage
  • Policy pressure
  • Conservatorship
  • Operations under conservatorship
  • Massive losses
  • Reform options
  • Status quo, plus re-regulation
  • Nationalisation
  • Privatisation

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