Fed takes boldest action since the Depression to rescue US mortgage industry

2008-03-13 — telegraph.co.uk

'The US Federal Reserve has taken the boldest action since the 1930s, accepting $200bn of housing debt as collateral to prevent an implosion of the mortgage finance industry and head off a full-blown economic crisis.'

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