Fed Chair: Trump Won’t Make Me Step Down

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has told lawmakers he would not quit his job as the nation’s top central banker if the president requested it. So reports the BBC. Read more...

Meeting America’s Affordable Housing Needs Requires GSE Reform, and More

Post from the JCHS of Harvard University By Michael Stegman Much of the writing that I will undertake in my fellowship year at the Joint Center for Housing Studies will address the Trump administration’s and Congress’s administrative and legislative efforts to reform the secondary mortgage market, including determining the fate of the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)… Read more...