Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve started a rate-cutting cycle on Sept. 18, 2025, lowering its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points (bps) to a range of 4.75% to 5%. The cut was the first since March 2020 after the Fed raised interest rates to a 23-year high point to cool the economy and quell inflation. The Fed cut rates two more times in 2024, each by 25 basis points. It has not cut interest rates so far in 2025.
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The economy can ill-afford to wait for Fannie and Freddie reform
Dec 29, 2010The Federal Reserve reaction to the Great Recession was remarkably swift. In the months following the summer of 2008 not only did Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and AIG collapse but Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were also taken under the government’s wing.
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The nation’s disconnect on loan officer compensation
Dec 21, 2010 -
Wells Fargo: A multilingual, multinational company
Dec 08, 2010 -
US investors in Europe finish what the Fed starts
Dec 08, 2010 -
Broadsmoore CEO: Illiquidity hangover may last for generations
Dec 02, 2010 -
Bailing out the big banks and taking Europe with it
Dec 01, 2010 -
Recovery beckons and so do similarities to the Great Depression
Nov 10, 2010 -
Recovering from foreclosure: Prime vs. subprime borrowers and strategic defaults
Nov 10, 2010 -
The more the Fed changes, the more it stays the same
Nov 03, 2010 -
Disposing of the GSEs and reviving private securitization
Nov 02, 2010 -
Reality check at the FDIC/Fed mortgage symposium
Oct 29, 2010 -
The woeful inadequacies of self-policing mortgage servicing
Oct 27, 2010
