The Institutional Risk Analyst

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The Fed and Housing

Issuing CMOs via the GSEs could help the FOMC out of its trading mess, but represents a monumental irony.

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Anti-Money Laundering, Know Your Customer and the End of Offshore Crypto

Could the tether market and a small, little-known private bank in the Bahamas be the precursor of the next systemic market event in the US?

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Jim Parrott on GSE Reform and the Road Ahead

The GSEs will never be worth more than about $250 billion regardless of how much additional taxpayer money is contributed....

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Joe Biden Must Fire FHFA Director Calabria

If you sent somebody to deliberately sabotage the US housing market, you could not find a better perpetrator than Director Calabria.

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The Myth of GSE Release

The prospective ejection of the GSEs, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, from government control seems finally to be dead for the next four years.

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