Privatizing America’s Housing Giants: How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Could Reshape Bond Markets for Investors
15 min readIntroduction: Why GSE Privatization Matters to Investors Given their oversized role in home mortgages, any discussion of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s potential privatization tends to capture investors’ attention. Recent developments suggest that the Trump administration is exploring plans to sell the government’s stakes in the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) through an initial public offering (IPO)…