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 Federal Housing Finance Agency | 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 Federal Housing Finance Agency | 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 Federal Housing Finance Agency | 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 Federal Housing Finance Agency | 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 Federal Housing Finance Agency | Permalink | No Comments
April 10, 2025
What Happens if Fannie and Freddie Go Private?
I was quoted in Fintech Nexus’ Home Invasion: What Happens if Fannie and Freddie Go Private. It reads, in part, The Trump Administration has telegraphed significant changes to GSE mortgage lenders — with massive implications for the industry Since his … Continue reading
April 10, 2025 in Federal Housing Finance Agency | Permalink | No Comments
March 26, 2025
Trump’s Plans to Privatize Fannie and Freddie
I was interviewed on WBUR-FM’s On Point (distributed by American Public Radio), hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti for an episode on How Trump Plans To Get Government out of the Mortgage Business. The link has the recording of the show as … Continue reading
March 26, 2025 in Federal Housing Finance Agency | Permalink | No Comments
