Just What Is the Public Getting With Its Bailout Bucks

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Now that the nation’s taxpayers are the owners of the two mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government’s overseer, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, should open the books, the New York Times Gretchen Morgenson writes. That would let the public see just what happened over the past 10 years and just what they now own. (9/15/08)