Federal National Mortgage Association
Americannoun
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She settled in San Antonio in 2005 and was a past director of the Federal National Mortgage Association.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2018
In 1994, he left the government and joined the Federal National Mortgage Association, better known as Fannie Mae.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2016
The Federal National Mortgage Association, or “Fannie Mae”, was made private in 1968, and was joined by a twin, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, “Freddie Mac”, in 1970.
From Economist ● Apr. 10, 2014
New Deal policy makers created Fannie Mae, originally called the Federal National Mortgage Association, to buy mortgages from local banks and mortgage companies and sell them to insurance companies and other investors.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2012
Builders have pressed for years to expand HUD's Federal National Mortgage Association into a central bank trading in conventional as well as FHA and VA mortgages, to which it is now confined.
From Time Magazine Archive
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