1999 Article Warns of Pending US Bailout to Come

This is a little off my usual category of blog posts, but considering what's going on now....
My husband shoots me this email with this link in it to a Sep. 30th, 1999 article from the New York Times titled the following:
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending

I think that possibly my favorite part of the whole article was this:
"Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits."
And probably my second favorite part of the article was this:
"In moving, even tentatively, into this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's."

''From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,'' said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ''If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.''
Almost prophetic.