In his zeal to crack down on false market rumours, here are a couple of places for Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox to start looking: the US Treasury Department and the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight.

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</p><p class='TableClas'>In a statement on July 10, with shares of Fannie and Freddie in a freefall, Lockhart 

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