November 13, 2014
Reiss on Privatization of Fannie and Freddie
BadCredit.org profiled an article of mine in Brooklaw Professor Pushes for Privatization of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. The profile opens, Since the end of the Great Recession, policymakers, academics and economists have been struggling with a very difficult question — what … Continue reading
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October 29, 2014
Reiss on Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Proposed Rulemaking
I have submitted a Comment on Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Proposed Rulemaking to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Basically, I argue The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Home Mortgage Disclosure Act proposed rulemaking (proposed Aug. 29, 2014) is a reasonable one. … Continue reading
October 29, 2014 in CFPB | Permalink | No Comments
October 28, 2014
Reiss on Who Should Be Providing Mortgage Credit to American Households?
I have posted a short Response, Who Should Be Providing Mortgage Credit to American Households?, to SSRN (as well as to BePress). The abstract reads, Who should be providing mortgage credit to American households? Given that the residential mortgage market is … Continue reading
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October 23, 2014
Tall Mortgage Tales
Todd Zywicki has posted The Behavioral Law and Economics of Fixed-Rate Mortgages (and Other Just-So Stories) to SSRN. The article contains SPOILER ALERT! a spoof, in order to make a larger point. The abstract reads, A major cause of the … Continue reading
October 23, 2014 in CFPB | Permalink | No Comments
October 10, 2014
Dodd-Frank Mortgage Rules Readiness Guide
The CFPB issued Version 3.0 of its 2014 CFPB Dodd-Frank Mortgage Rules Readiness Guide “to help financial institutions come into and maintain compliance with the new mortgage rules outlined in Part I of this Guide. . . .. This Guide … Continue reading
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October 9, 2014
A Framework For Housing Finance
The Government Accountability Office has released Housing Finance System: A Framework for Assessing Potential Changes. The GAO writes, To help policymakers assess various proposals for changing the single-family housing finance system and consider ways in which the system could be … Continue reading
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September 16, 2014
Gimme More Mortgage Data!
People are always talking about the value of data about web browsing habits. They don’t talk nearly enough about the value of data about mortgage shopping habits. Regulators and researchers do not know nearly enough about how borrowers and lenders … Continue reading
September 16, 2014 in CFPB | Permalink | No Comments
