Mortgage Market Roundup, Oct. 5 

It’s certainly been an interesting week – there’s a word used as a descriptor for those times when an entire industry decides to take its lumps in one quarter, in the hopes that will purge the bad once and for all. The word is escaping my usually quick mind as I write this, but that’s clearly what’s been taking place this week. Here’s a look at some commentary and news from across the Web as we head into the weekend, so feel free to jump off wherever you feel like it: