Uncle Sam has finally taken over Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE). Yesterday, the Bush administration placed the mortgage giants under a conservatorship, putting billions of dollars of taxpeyers’ money at risk in the process.

The Treasury says it will stump up $200 billion to back the companies in exchange for a 79.9% stake in each. The government is now the biggest player in the US mortgage market.

Don Rich warns that the government’s bailout spells trouble for anyone holding US dollars.

Dom Rich says the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)’s estimates of the taxpayer losses from the bailout of Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) are implausibly conservative. The real estate bubble of this decade was the biggest of any asset class in history. Rather than the CBO’s $25 billion figure, Dom says the real cost is at least $1.3 trillion, and could be as high as $2.5 trillion. And this doesn’t even account for the inflationary consequences of rescuing Wall Street. The Fed is on a money printing binge session, and anyone holding dollars will be picking up the tab…