Freddie and Fannie to Buy $40 Billion a Month in Toxic Sub-prime and Alt-A Mortgages. Posted by mybudget360 in bailout, banks 0 Comments .
. . This is actually breaking news that has the potential to really destroy the U.S. taxpayer. There is a report out by Bloomberg and now being reported by CBS MarkeWatch that Federal regulators are going to order Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to start buying $40 billion a month in troubled mortgages each month. Keep in mind this is money on top of the $700 billion that is allocated in the bailout package just singed a few days ago: