Ops, MLO jobs; Marketing, Subservicing, HFA, Warehouse Products; Agency/GSE Changes May 19 2021, 8:02AM
Face facts: There are many differences between men and women. One of which is that when returning home from the grocery store, women typically are more level-headed and carry normal bag loads, whereas men typically carry as many bags as possible to save trips, sometimes with unfortunate consequences. I bring this up because the same bag of groceries seems to cost more as time passes, but (here’s your Tuesday Trivia) more shipping containers have been lost, off of ships at sea, in the first two months of this year than normally are lost during an entire year! Economists love talking about how raising the minimum wage impacts the labor force, and inflation, and Bank of America’s announcement yesterday that it is raising its minimum wage to $25/hour by 2025 (catchy) turned a lot of heads. (More inflation news below in the capital markets section.) Tod
Sales Jobs; Retention, Purchase, Servicing, Reverse Products; Webinars and Training; Interview With Economist Elliot Eisenberg May 10 2021, 7:58AM
Here at the MBAG event in Northern Florida some of the topics of conversation is the economy, the inability to predict interest rates, families, and lending. It has been reported that 25 to 34-year old’s spend more on mothers than any other age group for Mother’s Day, which hopefully is not a mea culpa that they should have called more during the course of the year. For the millions of Americans that celebrated Mom yesterday, the hope was probably that they could put a smile on her face after all the ones she had put on theirs over the years. For us parents, there’s no better feeling than seeing excitement on the face(s) of our children. While the frequency of that may wane after they grow up and finally leave the house, my son Robbie told me he is more excited about today’s podcast interview with econ