Among the mortgage giant's new house rules: Demonstrate humility.

So, yes, he had heard of the mortgage giants before they started imploding.

The scandal highlights the extent to which these mortgage giants are underregulated.

The financial sector's performance has been hurt by the fall in the stock of Fannie Mae, the mortgage giant.

Palin points to McCain's call for more oversight of the mortgage giants.

These mortgage giants have played an important role in making housing more affordable in the United States.

The Bush administration seized control of the mortgage giants in September 2008.

We have bailed out broken banks, broken car companies and broken mortgage giants.

It also announced that the chief executives of the two government-controlled mortgage giants would be getting compensation packages worth $6m a year.

The Treasury Department put them into conservatorship and gave each of the mortgage giants a $100bn line of credit to cover future losses.