2010-04-25nytimes.com

"The Treasury secretary is bedeviled over what to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the bailed-out mortgage giants that have cost the taxpayers upward of $125 billion with as yet no end in sight. Shutting them down is not so easy because — get ready for this — since their bailout, in September 2008, Fannie and Freddie have become more, not less, important to the U.S. housing market."



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