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Trump Infrastructure Building Plan May Collide With His Immigration Crackdown President Trump will begin to map out his highly anticipated ideas for repairing roads, bridges and airports tomorrow (Tuesday) in a speech to a joint session of Congress...

Despite both the recent release of a set of “GSE reform principles” by the Mortgage Bankers Association and Treasury Secretary Designee Steven Mnuchin’s promise to prioritize reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as matters stand such reform seems likely...

Coming Up this week in DC The Bipartisan Policy Center is hosting a GSE conference on Thursday, featuring Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.). The politicos are followed by a panel of industry types, moderated by Harvard’s Nic Retsinas...

by Jesse Eisinger At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, the country heatedly debated whether to nationalize the failing banking system. Both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations rejected that path as excessive government intrusion...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is delivering a speech on the housing market in Atlanta. Some of the key points, via Bloomberg: Bernanke said the Fed will do what it can to back the housing recovery and reiterated that the Fed would use its policy...