The time has come to set Fannie and Freddie free, said in the New York Daily News . The two U.S. mortgage giants "are as healthy as they have ever been." They have returned $300 billion to the government, more than repaying their $191 billion bailout in 2008. That's why President Trump's proposal last week to take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public is a sound idea. The real payoff for taxpayers will come if the Treasury finally sells off its 80% stake in what would be the largest stock offering in history. "Depending on how it is structured, the government can get 85% or more of the proceeds from this transaction—or at least $150 billion in new, unallocated money." That money could be used to support the construction of new housing and ease the affordability crisis that has currently fr

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