Sunday, September 7, 2008

U.S. Losses on Fannie, Freddie May Be $300 Billion, Poole Says

(Bloomberg) William Poole, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said taxpayers may face a $300 billion bill to revive Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants being taken over by the Federal government.

``I would not be surprised if their total losses aggregate about 5 percent of their obligations'' of about $6 trillion, Poole said today in an interview on Bloomberg Radio. ``Five percent does not seem to me to be an outrageous guess.''

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