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Uncommon ‘too-big-to-fail’ market utility label possible for Fannie, Freddie
June 28, 2019
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“Fannie and Freddie continue to represent giant moral hazard, as they always have,” Alex Pollock, a senior fellow at the Washington think tank R Street Institute, said in an opening statement. “Since they now have virtually zero capital, they are even more dependent on the Treasury’s credit support and its implicit guarantee than they were before.”
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