... the analogy of the financial crisis as a major war, then in the same way that the academic writers acted as the strategists, diplomats, and gadflies of the crisis, the financial reporters were the ... each impending phase of the crisis taking place while he and the Treasury Department managed to weather the collapse of Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the financial ... to participate as a publicly-traded company on the one hand, but maintained the privileges granted by its federal charter on the other Financial markets believed that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...