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The now-interim leader of the Federal Housing Finance Agency would give the mortgage industry much-needed stability following Calabria’s calamities, writes the head of Whalen Global Advisors. → Read More
There are people creating a lot of unrealistic scenarios about market risk. → Read More
How we resolve millions of delinquent mortgages due to COVID is the only question that matters. → Read More
As California attorney general, she was more than willing to live large off of business and the productive. → Read More
This proposed Libor replacement is an imaginary, backward-looking benchmark dreamed up by the economists at the Fed with no discernable market. → Read More
As businesses and the wealthy flee Gotham, the progressives' infantile fiscal solutions are driving the city right back to 1975. → Read More
Whalen: "It is tempting to think that low interest rates will cure all ills in the housing sector, but this view is seriously in error, as we learned in 2008." → Read More
Any intention that Ginnie Mae may have had to slow prepayment rates by changing the rules on RPLs seems to be thwarted by the grim economic reality facing the big banks. → Read More
Beijing has reacted to economic crisis by cracking down domestically, which could have unintended consequences. → Read More
What the cyclical nature of riskier lending over the last half century can tell us about today's market. → Read More
FHFA Director Mark Calabria stated that he was directing the GSEs to "add liquidity" to the markets, but the actions of the FHFA say precisely the opposite. → Read More
FHFA head Mark Calabria and his FSOC counterparts need to sit down with the Treasury and fashion an emergency capital plan for the GSEs. → Read More
Simply stated, the federal forbearance of mortgage payments is perhaps the largest unfunded public mandate in American history. → Read More
A number of proposals have been floated for debt payment holidays and other types of moratoria, but such approaches offer solutions that are worse than the problems. → Read More
Trillions in global debt could default, while the economic cleanup from COVID-19 could take much longer than anticipated. → Read More
With the return of volume and profitability to mortgage lending, it is no surprise that commercial banks are coming back to the market. → Read More
Why do GOP Senators Shelby and Toomey believe that a candidate for the Fed cannot have conservative views? → Read More
Xi Jinping's massive insecurity complex has led to a crisis that's beginning to affect global markets, too. → Read More
To paint nonbanks as a source of systemic risk, particularly given the track record of commercial banks in causing the 2008 subprime mortgage fiasco, seems absurd. → Read More
The fact that the more operationally skilled nonbanks have come to specialize in government mortgages is hardly surprising if you assess the cost to originate and service these loans. → Read More