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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
S/O Fannie and Freddie political contributions
Since Fannie and Freddie were supported by the gov't, why were they allowed to contribute to politicians? I still don't understand the relationship between the gov't and these companies except that FDR started Fannie.
Edit: changed are to were since I'm talking about the past.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
A new beginning Lap Band in Nov. '11
Re: S/O Fannie and Freddie political contributions
Freddie/Fannie are pseudo-gov't oligopolies. They were technically privatized (they were owned by shareholders) but had a gov't backing which allowed them to be reckless, knowing the gov't would bail them out when they got in over their heads. They're called GSEs b/c they were chartered by the gov't. Fannie was at one time gov't owned and a monopoly in the secondary mortgage market. Freddie was created in the 70s as a private GSE for "competition" with Fannie. Apparently congress didn't know 2 gov't backed monoliths =/= competition.?
Here's an article on them:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11781.html?
Thanks for answering Caden!
If they had a gov't backing, should they have been allowed to contribute to politicians?