{"id":67458,"date":"2025-08-14T22:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67458\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:40:11","slug":"to-sell-fannie-and-freddie-trump-must-answer-a-7trn-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67458\/","title":{"rendered":"To sell Fannie and Freddie, Trump must answer a $7trn question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">\u201cNothing is so permanent\u201d, noted Milton Friedman, \u201cas a temporary government programme\u201d. Friedman died in 2006, a couple of years before Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two enormous government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that provide liquidity to the American mortgage market, were bailed out during the global financial crisis. The firms were taken into \u201cconservatorship\u201d, a form of temporary government control. It has now been in place for almost 17 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cNothing is so permanent\u201d, noted Milton Friedman, \u201cas a temporary government programme\u201d. Friedman died in 2006, a couple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,11925,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-67458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-finance-economics","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}