Freddie Mack

As U.S. Government Props Up Housing, Taxpayers Are On The Hook For Billions

washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business


In the go-go years of the U.S. housing boom, virtually anybody could get a few hundred thousand dollars to buy a home, and private lenders flooded the...