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To: Clintonfatigued; Kaslin
If they're too big to fail, can they be broken up into regional agencies?

There is no need to break them up and remake them because there is no need for these Great Depression era FDR-created GSE services to begin with - they only distorted the normal housing/mortgage market and have been privatizing profits while socializing the risk / liabilities / losses.

Fannie and Freddie aren't Too Big To Fail (TBTF) - they are Too Big To Succeed (TBTS). So is the rest of the Big Government (e.g., look at Greece and the PIIGS of EU).

6 posted on 06/14/2011 2:03:21 AM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: CutePuppy; Clintonfatigued; Kaslin

though, I’m no economist, but what happens if Fannie and Freddie DO collapse and fall? Does that bring down the US economy? Anyone have a clear picture that they can tell me?


7 posted on 06/14/2011 3:14:55 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.)
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