November 10, 2017
How Important Is Skin in The Game?
Haoyang Liu has posted a paper to SSRN that challenges the effectiveness of skin-in-the-game market discipline: Does Skin-in-the-Game Discipline Risk Management? Evidence from Mortgage Insurance. The abstract reads, Many mortgage reform proposals suggest replacing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) … Continue reading
November 10, 2017 in Federal Housing Finance Agency | Permalink | No Comments
October 27, 2017
Fannie and Freddie Visit the Supreme Court
Fannie and Fredddie investors have filed their petition for a writ of certiorari in Perry Capital v. Mnuchin. The question presented is Whether 12 U.S.C. § 4617(f), which prohibits courts from issuing injunctions that “restrain or affect the exercise of … Continue reading
October 27, 2017 in Federal Housing Finance Agency | Permalink | No Comments
October 4, 2017
FHFA’s Strategic Plan for Fannie and Freddie
The Federal Housing Finance Agency released its Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2018-2022 for public input. As discussed in yesterday’s post, Director Watt is very focused on maintaining the health of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Strategic Plan reiterates … Continue reading
October 4, 2017 in Federal Housing Finance Agency | Permalink | No Comments
October 3, 2017
Watt’s Happening with Fannie and Freddie?
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Watt testified before the House Committee on Financial Services today and gave a good overview of the decade-long conservatorship of Fannie and Freddie. He also gave some sense of the urgency of coming up with … Continue reading
October 3, 2017 in Federal Housing Finance Agency | Permalink | No Comments
September 27, 2017
Fannie, Freddie and Climate Change
The Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute issued its September 2017 Housing Finance At A Glance Chartbook. The introduction asks what the recent hurricanes tell us about GSE credit risk transfer. But it also has broader implications regarding … Continue reading
September 27, 2017 in Federal Housing Finance Agency | Permalink | No Comments
July 3, 2017
Easy Money From Fannie Mae
The San Francisco Chronicle quoted me in Fannie Mae Making It Easier to Spend Half Your Income on Debt. It reads in part, Fannie Mae is making it easier for some borrowers to spend up to half of their monthly pretax … Continue reading
July 3, 2017 in Federal Housing Finance Agency | Permalink | No Comments
June 26, 2017
FHFA’s Asks from Congress
The Federal Housing Finance Agency released its 2016 report to Congress. Of particular note are its legislative recommendations. The first is one that I and every other housing policy analyst has been saying for years. The second two are very … Continue reading
June 26, 2017 in Federal Housing Finance Agency | Permalink | No Comments
