Foreign governments fled US agency bonds
Foreign governments, whose purchases of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae agency bonds had helped to sustain the house price bubble in the US, began flee over the summer from the agency bonds to the US Treasury bonds guaranteed by the US government.
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