who built those brings in record time, i m send them to the southern border to do the wall. come on, joe, let us get it done. martha: that s a taste of it there. the former president trump heads to iowa monday. iowans like to see the candidates and they re getting a good look in the early going. he s virtually tied with desantis in iowa in terms of favor ability among republicans. more and more we ll see these two on the debate stage in five months, folks. it s far away until it s not. let me tell you, it s not really far away anymore. let s bring in jason chaffetz, joe concha and robert wolf, former economic adviser to president obama. all are fox news contributors. great to have you on set, gentlemen. this does feel like the kickoff. this thing is in motion. i m sure. it s a coincidence that he s going to iowa and nevada. just happened to be in the first four that they get to vote. he s formidable. he had the best election in 2022 with tim scott. i think it shows republ
Today I head to Phoenix area for the AzAMP annual conference, and am reminded that, “Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.” The mortgage industry is constantly changing, although Freddie and Fannie have been a somewhat stabilizing influence. But explaining to someone not in the mortgage business what they, the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) do, is not easy, but in another one of his Mortgage Musings, attorney Brian Levy offers his thoughts on 15 years of being in conservatorship and whether that means it’s time to drop the “S” in GSE. Let’s just hope they don’t become another Amtrak. (Sign up for Musings here.) One topic that has come up at a few conferences, besides Agency buybacks, is demand for “LIP” and “VLIP” borrowers. Are F&F pushing hard for Low Income Purchase and Very Low Income Purchase business, and requesting high percentages of those products with the “t
Is because that it provides a reason for the fed to maybe not be as aggressive with regard to interest rates and that maybe is one of the reasons why the stock market is getting a little bit of a it s not to say the stock market will necessarily go higher, but all of that interest rate discussion is what is punishing the parts of the stock market that has risen the fastest over the past two years. that s the reason the stocks are leaning to the downside the last couple of days are the ones so unfocused. the technology ones. the facebooks. the alphabets. the microsofts of the world. those tech stocks are going to be a key part of the market narrative going forward and they are a little more interest rate sensitive because the values of those stocks are driven in large part by lower interest rates. let s play politics for a moment. the president has a right to take credit for supercharging the markets or the economy. whether it s deregulation, or the massive tax cuts.