The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, also known as FHLM and Freddie Mac, is a federally-chartered corporation that purchases residential mortgages, securitizes them, and sells them to investors. this provides lenders with funds for new homebuyers, and thus creates a "circle of loans".

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