Hot Air

We Won’t Get Fooled Again – HotAir

        Anyone remember back in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and the stock market crashed, with many tens of millions of Americans seeing their lifetime savings nearly wiped out?





        Apparently the politicians in Washington are suffering amnesia — even though it was the worst crash since the Great Depression.

        What else has been conveniently forgotten inside the swamp is that the institution that lost the most money and required the biggest tax bailout wasn’t any of the major banks that teetered on the verge of bankruptcy but Fannie Mae — the government-guaranteed enterprise that insures federal mortgages and was supposed to NEVER fail. Fanny received nearly $200 billion of taxpayer rescue funds.

        Fannie Mae, which now resides in one of the glitziest nearly 1 million-square-foot high-story office buildings in the…

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