Bush and Fed Step Toward a Mortgage Rescue
Story date: 2008-03-04 03:53:00
Added on: 2008-03-05 22:29:39
New York Times - And he urged the two government-sponsored mortgage companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , to raise more capital so they could buy more mortgages.
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