Business Quote by Ben Bernanke

Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and…

— Alex Berenson

Congress created Fannie Mae in 1938 and Freddie Mac in 1970. For many years, these institutions prudently pursued their core mission of enhancing the…

— Jerome Powell

These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more…

— Barney Frank

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans.

— Charles Duhigg

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - two bloated and corrupt government-sponsored programs - contributed heavily to the crisis.In order to prevent another crisis, we…

— Carly Fiorina

“For that purpose, partly as the result of Ranieri’s persistent lobbying, two new facilities had sprung up in the federal government alongside Ginnie Mae.…

— Michael Lewis

Analysts say that one reason Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were privatized in the first place was to prevent political whims from dominating the…

— Charles Duhigg

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis,

— Barney Frank

The financial collapse of 2008 got its start with predatory mortgages, that weren’t sold by community banks and credit unions, they were sold by…

— Elizabeth Warren

“The not-so-astonishing results: By late 2008, Fannie and Freddie were on the verge of collapse and were taken over by the government. Thus their…

— Yaron Brook

Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.

— Bethany McLean

We gotta get Fannie and Freddie out of government ownership. It makes no sense that these are owned by the government and have been…

— Steve Mnuchin