policymakers being driven. The other sector that, again, which was more on the monetary side, was immigration reform. So, you know, the prison stocks that had a very big run as a result of immigration being a major problem that they're trying to tackle. And the other thing that just came up, which I think is very, very, very important, and I'm shocked that it appeared only on page 14 of the Financial Times this weekend, is that there is a possibility for a major housing reform, whereby Freddie Mac applied to the FHFA, the Federal Housing Association, to offer secondary mortgages to people. So, just to make it simple, right now, the Fannie Freddie, they only offer primary mortgages. And there's a lot of equity that's trapped in the housing market. Now, if you have a mortgage with Freddie, you can, what Freddie wants is they want you to come to them and you take an additional mortgage at a favorable rate and you release equity from your house. So, Meredith Whitney wrote this article that (32/57)
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