FANNIE AND FREDDIE IN A MESS: “The foreclosure mess is now spreading to Fannie and Freddie, as our government-owned mortgage machines starts looking into what, exactly, its servicers have been doing with their loans. Meanwhile, I detect some overblown expectations on the part of various people; last night, after I gave a talk on a mostly unrelated subject, two different people asked me if this meant that they could simply walk away from their mortgages; it wasn’t clear if they were hoping, or horrified.”