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

— Charles Duhigg

We need a system that provides mortgage credit in good times and bad to a broad range of creditworthy borrowers.

— Jerome Powell

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

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

“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

In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions…

— Ben Bernanke

I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change…

— Timothy Geithner

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

— Bethany McLean

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

— Christina Romer

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a…

— Anonymous

Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too…

— Dave Brat

Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

— Suze Orman