Government-Sponsored Enterprises Add To Financial Crisis
22 November 2017
John Berlau, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses why Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still endanger the U.S. economy and how taxpayers may be in danger of another massive mortgage bailout.
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