| Wall St. is using Washington’s revolving door to try to take mortgages away from Fannie and Freddie |
Monday, December 7, 2015 7:59 AM EST |
| Seven years after their dubious lending practices helped push the United States economy to the brink of disaster, the nation’s largest banks are closing in on a long-sought goal: to unseat Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage finance giants, and capture their share of the profits in the country’s $5.7 trillion home loan market. |
| Taking place largely behind the scenes, the movement to take over the mortgage market has been propelled in part by a revolving door between Washington and Wall Street, an investigation by The New York Times has found. |
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Wall St. is using Washington’s revolving door to try to take mortgages away from Fannie and Freddie
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