FedFin: Buying Freddie?
A Bloomberg article tells a fascinating tale of high-flying personal real-estate investment and other alleged acts of self-dealing at the expense of the seemingly-hapless Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Internal controls may come and go, but the striking policy take-away from the reporting is that Bank employees launched a credible Home Loan bank System effort to acquire Freddie Mac. What next?
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