After all, the GSEs have been around since the 1970s, and the financial markets have become quite accustomed to dealing with them and their debt.

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"But reality is quite different, " and big hurdles remain in getting customers, most of whom are accustomed to pay little attention to their power bills, to micromanage their energy use and accept energy market price risk.

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