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The Wrap: Rate Cuts, FSOC Fantasy and CRE Deflation
The Trump FSOC document reads like a Marvel comic book and is entirely laudatory towards crypto fraud, but uses the same idiotic language as former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in describing the grave systemic risks posed by residential mortgage servicers. The report states incredibly: "The continued use of U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoins is expected to support the role of the U.S. dollar in the international financial system..."
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Dec 11, 20256 min read


Yellen's FSOC: Housing Policy Dreams vs Mortgage Market Reality
Yellen's proposal for a backstop is merely a canard to help Treasury avoid another fiasco next time a Ginnie Mae issuer fails
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Jul 30, 20246 min read


FSOC Frets About Nonbank Risk; Goldman Sachs Stepping Back?
GS has the weakest position in terms of funding of the top-ten banks and no real narrative for the business post-Marcus.
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Sep 21, 20236 min read


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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Dec 21, 20206 min read


Post-Election Liquidity Risk: FSOC and the CSBS
An equally informal group of researchers within the Federal Reserve System is also in the vanguard of those warning about nonbank risk...
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Nov 5, 20207 min read
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