Barrels Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Bethany McLean

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

These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government sponsored entities,…

— George Soros

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

— Barney Frank

And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in…

— Franklin Raines

“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

RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to…

— Gary H. Stern

As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5 billion accounting…

— Ann Coulter

My investigation found Sallie Mae put student borrowers into expensive subprime loans that it knew were going to fail.

— Lisa Madigan

If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.

— Charles Duhigg

There is no debate among any statured scientists of what is happening. The only debate is the rate at which it is happening.

— James McCarthy

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow…

— Janet Yellen