{"id":362925,"date":"2010-02-25T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2010\/02\/25\/bernanke-suggests-privatization-for-platypus-fannie-freddie\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T16:11:06","slug":"bernanke-suggests-privatization-for-%e2%80%98platypus%e2%80%99-fannie-freddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/362925","title":{"rendered":"Bernanke Suggests Privatization for \u2018Platypus\u2019 Fannie, Freddie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal Reserve<\/strong> Chairman <strong>Ben Bernanke<\/strong> referred to mortgage-finance giants <strong>Fannie Mae<\/strong> and <strong>Freddie Mac<\/strong> as a \u0093platypus,\u0094 saying they were \u0093neither fish nor fowl.\u0094 He suggested strongly that the companies should be privatized during his appearance before the <strong>Senate Banking Committee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bernanke didn\u0092t specifically direct Congress to privatize the government-sponsored firms, but did go as far as saying it was an \u0093interesting direction to go,\u0094 which in Fedspeak often means something.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/rfOF2lWT34jGlh2tbnPDimnuc9Y\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/rfOF2lWT34jGlh2tbnPDimnuc9Y\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/rfOF2lWT34jGlh2tbnPDimnuc9Y\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/rfOF2lWT34jGlh2tbnPDimnuc9Y\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=YOXWhhc35kA:UMXOpOilFxg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=YOXWhhc35kA:UMXOpOilFxg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?i=YOXWhhc35kA:UMXOpOilFxg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=YOXWhhc35kA:UMXOpOilFxg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?i=YOXWhhc35kA:UMXOpOilFxg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?a=YOXWhhc35kA:UMXOpOilFxg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/wsj\/economics\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/wsj\/economics\/feed\/~4\/YOXWhhc35kA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke referred to mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as a \u0093platypus,\u0094 saying they were \u0093neither fish nor fowl.\u0094 He suggested strongly that the companies should be privatized during his appearance before the Senate Banking Committee. Mr. Bernanke didn\u0092t specifically direct Congress to privatize the government-sponsored firms, but did go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}