What To Do about Fannie and Freddie?

Glaeser Edward L and Jaffee Dwight M

The Economists' Voice, 2006, vol. 3, issue 7, 5

Abstract: Edward Glaeser and Dwight Jaffee argue that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are actively pursuing great risk at taxpayer expense and private profit: the cure is a tax on their $1.5 trillion in borrowing that could yield as much as $6 billion a year.

Date: 2006
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