December 17, 2025
Federal Home Loan Banks during Financial Stress
I was happy to participate in the discussion group process for the Government Accountability Office’s report, Federal Home Loan Banks: Role During Financial Stress and Members’ Borrowing Trends and Outcomes (GAO-26-107373). The Highlights of the report include The Federal Home … Continue reading
December 17, 2025 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
November 11, 2025
Trump & Pulte’s 50-Year Mortgage
Politico quoted me in ‘Band-Aid,’ ‘Distraction’: Experts Slam Pulte, Trump 50-Year Mortgage Idea. It opens, The Trump administration is entertaining a potential plan for the government to back 50-year mortgages to address a housing affordability crisis. But, in a housing … Continue reading
November 11, 2025 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
October 2, 2025
Retrenchment and Rollback: Federal Consumer Protection and Housing
I will be speaking on Retrenchment and Rollback: Federal Consumer Protection and Housing in an ABA Professor’s Corner webinar on October 14th at 12:30 ET with Kathleen Engel, Suffolk Law School Rosa Newman, Elon School of Law Julie Patterson Forrester … Continue reading
October 2, 2025 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
September 16, 2025
The FHFA’s @Pulte Acts on X Alone
Business Insider quoted me in Mortgage Regulator Bill Pulte Has Posted at Least 13 Agency Orders on His Personal X Account (behind a paywall). The story reads, in part, Until he became the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency … Continue reading
September 16, 2025 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
July 2, 2025
Bullying the Fed
Central Banking quoted me in Economists Denounce Trump’s ‘Bullying’ of Fed Chair (sign up required). It opens, Economists have attacked what they regard as US president Donald Trump’s bullying of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, describing it as dangerous for the … Continue reading
July 2, 2025 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
May 30, 2025
Fannie, Freddie and Trump
Central Banking quoted me in Fannie, Freddie . . . and Donald. It reads, in part, IIn a client note on May 13, investment management firm Pimco said any privatisation of Fannie and Freddie would be a solution in search … Continue reading
May 30, 2025 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
April 29, 2025
Defend the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
I signed on to this important letter, along with hundreds of others: 349 Consumer, Civil Rights, Labor, Legal Services and Community Organizations April 29, 2025 U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC Re: Support the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Dear Representative, … Continue reading
April 29, 2025 in Regulation | Permalink | No Comments
