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Short Takes: Time to Sell GSE ‘Juniors’? / Bruce Berkowitz, True Believer / What Fannie, Freddie and Sears Have in Common / Whatever Happened to Sears Mortgage? / Texas Capital Accumulating MSR Assets / First Franklin Settles FHA Charges

February 9, 2017

Paul Muolo

Besides the GSEs, one Fairholme’s most speculative investments is Sears Holdings Corp., the struggling retailer…

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