GSE Reform Considered Likely to Address Limitations On Retained Portfolios at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
April 15, 2005
Analysts and backers of the government-sponsored enterprises will be looking closely at language that GOP leaders in the House and Senate are expected to craft as part of reform legislation that could significantly curtail Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s MBS investment activities. It’s clear that the Bush administration wants Congress to provide a new GSE regulator with some guidance in this direction, after Treasury Secretary John Snow and Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary…