Fannie, Freddie Benefit from Subsidies

12/23/2003 Mises Wire Robert Blumen

According to the New York Times, the Fed is preparing a report finding that quasi-public quasi-private “Government Sponsored Agencies” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac actually pass on most of their subsidy to their share holders rather than to home buyers as they claim.

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