Fed Chair Pressed on Housing Crisis Amid Political Pressure to Cut Rates
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell faced intense congressional scrutiny this week over the housing market and his approach to interest ...
Tag: Bill Pulte
Fannie and Freddie Will Consider Crypto in Mortgage Applications, Says FHFA Director
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte announced on X (formerly Twitter) this afternoon that the GSEs—mortgage giants Fannie ...
National Housing Conference Outlines Goals of GSE Privatization
Since assuming office in January 2025, President Donald J. Trump and his administration have maintained their goal of releasing Freddie ...
Federal Reserve Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged in June Meeting
At the latest Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on June 18, the Federal Reserve board of governors once more ...
Trump ‘Working On’ GSE Privatization, Will ‘Keep Its Implicit Guarantee’
Though President Donald Trump has made it clear that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will exit conservatorship, he announced that ...
Mortgage Mix: U.S. Home Purchase Cancellations Rise in April; Privatization of GSEs Back in the Spotlight
Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s biweekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it every other Friday ...
Trump ‘Giving Very Serious Consideration’ to Privatizing Fannie and Freddie
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are once again on President Trump’s radar. In a Truth Social post Wednesday, Trump shared ...
GSEs Conservatorship on the Backburner as Experts Highlight Risk
Libby Cantrill (left), with Warren Kornfeld, (right) speaking at MBA's Capital & Secondary Markets Conference in New York City on ...
FHFA Director Compares Potential Cuts to GSEs to DOGE
Above, MBA's Laura Escobar speaks with FHFA Director Bill Pulte at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Secondary and Capital Markets Conference ...
Fannie Mae Has Fired Over 100 Employees, Citing Fraud
On Tues. April 8, government sponsored-enterprise Fannie Mae announced that over the past few weeks, it had fired over 100 ...
3 Ways to Reclaim Your Work-Life Balance
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