Mark Workens News Today

If olive oil is made from olives, what is baby oil made from? The regulatory framework, some would say “tangled web,” facing lenders is made from hundreds of federal, state, state, local, and quasi-governmental bodies. Analogies aside, near the top of the heap is the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. The CFPB makes its priorities known and is concerned with redlining among other things. The CFPB can’t do anything about rising credit score costs, but for some reason people ...

While we await the release of the changes in the official conforming loan limits later today (many lenders and MI companies went to $750k in October, the CLL will probably increase around 6 percent for 2024 to around $770,000, and to $1,155,000 for high cost areas), both vendors and lenders continue with changes, instituting workweek reductions, furloughs, pay cuts, and layoffs due to overcapacity… Much different than a couple years ago when those same companies couldn’t hire peopl...