About 24 hours away from the first debate between president ial contenders joe biden and donald trump. It also brings forward the conversation about wealth disparity in the u. S. The wealthy and businesses looking to take advantage of the tax system. Missable budgets are strained amid the pandemic. Just this weekend, asking for low tax, well governed states to give him a call, he is looking to move may be. This whole theme today back in the spotlight. President trump responding to that New York Times report yesterday. Pres. Trump total fake news. Actually, i paid tax. You will see that as soon as my tax returns. It is under audit and they have been under audit for a long time. Predictably, trump calling the report fake news, but not refuting it in any way and, and of course he could by releasing his taxes. That report and more coming. Romaine for all of the ethical and character issues that this may raise, it does not appear that he did anything wrong in terms of the law. The tax code
That gets a ding the federal trade Commission Just approved pepsis purchase of Rockstar Energy drinks. Its going to be so annoying at restaurants when they order a coke and a red bull and the waitress says, sorry, is pepsi and rockstar okay . Thats right, pepsi now owns mountain dew and Rockstar Energy drinks. Pepsi, who are you fooling just start making meth and call it a day come on. This is exciting last night, espn aired the first two parts of their Michael Jordan docuseries, the last dance. Yeah, its something sports fans cant pass up, sort of like Michael Jordan, any time he had the ball. Oh [ ding ] wow. President obama was interviewed for the series and a lot of people laughed at the description the filmmakers gave him check it out they just call him former chicago resident. Thats like calling jesus former carpenter. And they were like, our mistake, it should have just said michelles husband. [ ding ] i see that disney brought back its bedtime hotline to help kids through the p
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Now, i know that the end of the last panel, or the first panel, they got a little bit into credit risk, so they tried to take our territory, and this one should be better, so everyone should understand that. I just, maybe ill introduce the panelists first. It is going from my last, to the far left, mike calhoun first, the president for the center for responsible lending, and then dana ganford now the ceo of the Global Mortgage Group at rg capital. And lori goodman is next, here at the urnen institute, she is the Vice President for Housing Finance policy and then last is David Finkelstein who is the chief Investment Officer for analy capital management. And i think we start with lori who has a couple of slides, and will take us through some of the data on history and development in credit Risk Transfer. Yes, just for a very short time, i think you did such a good job of mentioning, credit Risk Transfer actually started in 2012. And the idea was to reduce the overall risk of fannie and f
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