Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be on the agenda after trade deals and ...

The movie “The Big Short” — dramatizing the reckless behavior in the banking and mortgage industries that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis — captures much of Wall Street’s misconduct but ...

President Trump says he'll decide soon whether to take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public — a move that was vocally sought by ...

Trump’s idea to take the mortgage giants public has triggered a debate about the risks and potential benefits.

Trump appears to be pushing forward with a plan to publicly list shares of government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and ...

The conservatorship imposed rules ... regulators and the public to evaluate financial risks better. Limiting the types of mortgages that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can guarantee would also reduce ...

One of the chief concerns of taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac private is how it would influence mortgage rates and could ...

Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at ...

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square holds 2% of Fannie Mae’s equity and has a plan for privatizing the GSEs that is well-calibrated ...

The prospect of a financial windfall has revived Trump's interest, while conservatives believe that government control should ...