books.google.com - In the late 1980s and 1990s, Fannie Mae grew rapidly into the largest firm in the U.S. housing finance system and a major global financial institution. The Enterprise achieved double-digit growth in earnings per common share (EPS) for 15 straight years and leveraged its extraordinary financial success...http://books.google.com/books/about/Fannie_Mae_And_Freddie_MAC.html?id=iD8-bWporl8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFannie Mae And Freddie MAC