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Old 09-06-2008, 02:42 AM
 
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as soon as this weekend in a monumental move designed to protect the mortgage market from the failure of the two companies, which together hold or guarantee half of the nation's mortgage debt, a person briefed on the matter said Friday night.

Government may soon back troubled mortgage giants: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080905/mortgage_giants_crisis.html - broken link)

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Old 09-06-2008, 03:40 AM
 
Location: America
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Gotta protect those foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds.
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Old 09-06-2008, 03:56 AM
 
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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You ever wonder who the "person briefed on the matter" is?
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Old 09-06-2008, 09:48 AM
 
Location: Backwoods of Maine
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Hey - whaddaya mean, $4 trillion??? The WSJ says $5 trillion! That "person briefed on the matter" better get his briefs on right! Yeah!
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Old 09-06-2008, 09:53 AM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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Well this will be inflationary when we pay off the GSEs bond holders. Increase in the monetary base here we come. Enjoy.
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Old 09-06-2008, 10:02 AM
 
Location: Backwoods of Maine
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Well this will be inflationary when we pay off the GSEs bond holders. Increase in the monetary base here we come. Enjoy.
Got my Gold. I'm Good to Go.
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