The administration will likely attempt to unshackle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage guarantors, from their current position as wards of the state, analysts believe and Scott Turner ...

The efforts to free the firms from government control would also involve the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie and Freddie.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have long been the government’s safety net for loans, but for the last 17 years, they have required a safety net of their own. That could change, signaling a seismic ...