How Once-Doomed Mortgage Giants Gained New Lease on Life
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 13, 2019–Andrew Ackerman, Nick Timiraos (subscription)
For years after the 2008 mortgage-market meltdown, Republicans and Democrats agreed on little about what to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac except one thing: Get rid of them. A Trump administration housing-finance roadmap released last week would do the opposite.
