Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac won't have to worry so much about the shortening duration of their mortgage portfolios.

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Suggesting he was a Washington insider, but one no-one could work with, that he'd taken money from the hated Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae government mortgage companies (as "a historian") and that he was a loose cannon.

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