Residents of Edmonds, Washington, have been receiving hoax letters on the letterhead of the city government announcing their property is being seized to shelter illegal immigrants. The letters begin with this warning: “Upon the Biden administration’s suspending...
Bob Broeksmit is president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). This article is adapted and edited from a May 15 speech delivered at the Exchequer Club’s May 2024 meeting. My topic is familiar to many of you. It’s the administrative state—the...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Warren Buffett hosted his annual Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) shareholders meeting this past weekend, and during the event the billionaire executive was quizzed about artificial intelligence (AI). “I don’t know anything about AI,” he said,...
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appeared to take on the role of campaign surrogate for the Biden-Harris re-election effort in a speech promoted to consider the “economic case for democracy.” In prepared remarks delivered before the McCain Institute in Washington,...
A coalition of trade organizations representing housing providers, lenders and residents sent a letter to the Biden administration and members of Congress detailing bipartisan policies that can cost-effectively expand housing supply while improving housing equity and...
Small Mortgages Fall Below 3% of Originations, Exposing Rural Lending Gap
