White House says: FNMA IS A PRIVATEly owned company(!): The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) is a Government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) in the housing finance market. As a housing GSE, Fannie Mae is a federally chartered, privately owned company with a public mission to provide stabil- ity in and to increase the liquidity of the residential mortgage market and to help increase the availability of mortgage credit to low- and moderate-income families and in underserved areas. Fannie Mae engages primarily in two forms of business: guaran- teeing residential mortgage securities and investing in portfolios of residential mortgages