Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.
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With his support in Florida polls falling just two days before that state's primary, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stepped up the attack on frontrunner Mitt Romney, warning that, as happened in the past, a moderate Republican nominee would face defeat.
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