2009-02-25reuters.com

Total delinquencies jumped 0.26 percentage points last month to 1.98 percent, nearly three times that of a year earlier, according to data on the company's Web site.

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Freddie Mac said last month it expected fourth quarter losses may force it to draw up to $35 billion from the Treasury to maintain a positive net worth.

America is very quickly going to find out that a nationalized mortgage market is not going to come for free. It's not the government conservatorship that's the problem -- it's the insistence (almost NEVER questioned) that we should keep subsidizing mortgages in general.



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