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While here in Denver I received an email. “Rob, does what’s going on in Florida impact lenders?” I had to figure out if the author was asking about Disney/DeSantis, new Florida Man news, climate change, or insurance issues. Florida has a lot of cool things: manatees, Dry Tortugas National Park, Epcot Center, and cigar rollers in Tampa who do parties. Unfortunately it now has an additional insurance fee, as Florida has imposed a 1 percent “emergency” fee to property insurance premiums due to property-insurer insolvencies. Lenders in Florida often mention the A...

I head to Colorado Springs this morning, the scene of $3,000 mountain bikes in bike racks on top of $500 cars. There are roughly 380 bank branches in the city, including mortgage lender NBH. On the flip side, do you work at a non-depository bank, like a mortgage bank or broker? You should know that the Treasury’s Financial Stability Oversight Council voted unanimously to issue (for public comment) new proposed interpretative guidance on the Council’s procedures for designating nonbank financial companies for Federal Reserve supervision and enhanced prudential standards to replace...

The way bond math works, every man, woman, and child that owns a fixed-income security issued when rates were lower is now underwater on that bond or that security. As long as they continue to collect payments on that coupon, and don’t have to sell it, fine. If they are forced to sell the security at a loss and book it, that’s a different story. When people want their money out of a bank, and the bank needs to sell securities to pay off depositors, well, we’ve seen how that plays out. Along those lines, big bank problems make the headlines, but there are plenty of smaller ...

Three Dreamlike Spots With More Than Meets the Eye on North, Central, South Oregon Coast - Undiscovered parts of Oceanside, Newport, Coos Bay

One Shortest Day of the Year on Oregon Coast Leads to Shipwreck Missing for 50 Years - Adventures around the towns of Seaside, Cannon Beach, Manzanita and Rockaway Beach