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Housing Market Needs an Explicit Government Guarantee
American Banker, Mar. 14, 2018–David Stevens
MBA President and CEO rebuts a recent op-ed calling for recapitalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, asserting such a strategy would “decimate the ability of community banks and smaller lenders to participate in the secondary mortgage market.”