Did Treasury Secretary Paulson Give Hedgies a Tip to Short Fannie and Freddie in 2008?

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Nov 30, 2011
Details have emerged from a July 21, 2008, meeting Secretary Hank Paulson had with various hedge fund managers as the world was beginning to fall apart:


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-29/how-henry-paulson-gave-hedge-funds-advance-word-of-2008-fannie-mae-rescue.html


William D. Cohan, author of “Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World,” speaks on the meeting:





And here Bloomberg looks at Hank Paulson’s discussion of the actions taken to address the crisis: