A few links on the bailout:
Barney Frank, Fannie Mae’s Patron Saint
John McCain & Sarah Palin promise: We’ll Protect Taxpayers From More Bailouts
Politics and the Fannie Mae Piggy Bank
Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick, and some very cooked books.
Larry Kudlow blogs More Fan-Fred Questions than Answers
Overseas debt drives bailout of Fannie, Freddie
Some U.S banks take big loss
One Hand On Your Wallet Dept. (Note: this link didn’t show the first time I posted it, and now the HTML is correct. Sorry for the omission.)
Last but not least, Maxed Out Mama‘s roundup and opinion.
I hope they’ll truly privatize Freddy and Fannie and take it off the government’s hands. Sometime.
Hey Fausta,
Thanks for this round up on Freddie and Fannie, Shane and I are going to be doing a show on the credit crisis and these articles you linked up here are perfect.
Thanks again
Frank