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The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Bleeker & Williamson	Who's More to Blame: The SEC or Fannie and Freddie? March Madness series: Which government-ish entity do you choose? The SEC has more than enough complicity in this mess, but Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were set up to fail from the start.
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The Motley Fool September 3, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Kiss the Global Financial System Goodbye? China is by far the largest foreign investor in U.S. long-term agency debt. These days, the Chinese are fretting over Fannie and Freddie.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Freddie Mac Is No Investment If you own Freddie Mac shares, the problem is that no one knows what their ultimate losses will be. And that's just one source of significant uncertainty surrounding Freddie and its big sister, Fannie Mae.
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The Motley Fool September 9, 2009 Alex Dumortier	One Year Later: The Big Risk We're Still Facing This fundamental risk is larger than ever. Banks that are "too big to fail" benefit from an implicit taxpayer subsidy since their funding costs do not adequately reflect the risk of failure.
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The Motley Fool October 9, 2008 Alex Dumortier	The Next $350 Billion Hole Lehman goes out with a bang.
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The Motley Fool July 11, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	The Financial System Is Cracking Banking news: Things got worse in the credit crisis this week as the market speculated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could need a government bailout.
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The Motley Fool November 28, 2008 Dan Caplinger	Last Call for Smart Homeowners The Fed's recent move has triggered a sharp downtick in mortgage rates. If you want to refinance, it may be now or never.
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The Motley Fool September 22, 2004 Bill Mann	Three Financials Behaving Badly With each of these three massive financial institutions, representing the largest banking, mortgage, and insurance participants respectively, the taint of ongoing fraud ought to make minority shareholders awfully nervous.
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The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Alex Dumortier	The Truth About Naked Shorts There's been a lot of information and misinformation about short selling recently. Read on to bring yourself up to speed and bust some myths along the way.
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The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Rich Duprey	Obama's Glass Ceiling Resurrecting the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act won't solve anything.
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