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unusual facts about Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation



American Banker

The newspaper has won praise for its coverage of important policy issues, including passage of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, congressional debates surrounding regulation of government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the near-constant wave of mergers and acquisitions that affect banks.

United States Senate Banking Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development

The subcommittee oversees urban mass transit systems and general urban affairs and development issues, HUD community development programs; the Federal Housing Administration; the Rural Housing Service; and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, federal corporations that help Americans with the costs of homeownership.


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Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

On September 6, 2008, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), James B. Lockhart III, announced his decision to place two Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation), into conservatorship run by the FHFA.

FRE

Freddie Mac, (formally the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation), whose NYSE stock symbol was FRE until it delisted

Maxine Baker

Maxine B. Baker (born 1952), Vice President of Corporate Relations for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and President and CEO, (1997–present) of the Freddie Mac Foundation