“The firm, along with a sibling corporation named Freddie Mac, is at the heart of a US mortgage market that imploded during the financial crisis. The two firms received some of the biggest taxpayer bailouts in 2008. But now, as housing markets are recovering, so are their fortunes.  Fannie Mae has drawn some $116 billion in financial support from the US Treasury since the firm was taken over in a federal conservatorship in 2008. Some $35.6 billion of that has, in effect, been paid back through dividend payments to the Treasury since 2009.  Executives at Fannie and Freddie are touting the role they’ve played in buoying the housing market since the recession ended.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0402/Fannie-Mae-record-profit-How-long-until-it-pays-back-bailout-money

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