{"id":200198,"date":"2010-01-19T18:44:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/2010\/01\/19\/affected-by-government-pollock-on-sox-massachusetts-2mm-jobs-bill-dudley-on-low-rates-obama-fee-exit-effects-mods-roubini-gse-costs-mauldin-on-ending-qe\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T18:44:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T23:44:37","slug":"affected-by-government-pollock-on-sox-massachusetts-2mm-jobs-bill-dudley-on-low-rates-obama-fee-exit-effects-mods-roubini-gse-costs-mauldin-on-ending-qe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/200198","title":{"rendered":"Affected by Government: Pollock on SOX, Massachusetts, 2mm Jobs, Bill Dudley on Low Rates, Obama Fee, Exit Effects, Mods, Roubini, GSE Costs, Mauldin on Ending QE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billcoppedge.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bill-coppedge-dec09-1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bill-coppedge-dec09-119.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"112\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"original content selection by MortgageNewsClips.com\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/original-content-selection-by-MortgageNewsClips.com19.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"52\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/inst-risk-analyst1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"inst-risk-analyst1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/inst-risk-analyst1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"57\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us1.institutionalriskanalytics.com\/pub\/IRAMain.asp\"><strong>The Institutional Risk Analyst: Why Big is Bad; Alex Pollock on Sarbanes-Oxley and the Financial Crisis<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp; &#8211; Christopher Whalen &#8211; In this issue of The IRA, we discuss why Big is Bad when it comes to large banks.&nbsp; Then we feature a comment by Alex Pollock on \u201cSarbanes-Oxley in the Light of the Financial Crisis\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/business-insider1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"business-insider\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/business-insider_thumb1.png\" width=\"105\" height=\"66\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Massachusetts May Drag Feet On Seating Republican If He Wins To Save The 60th Vote On Medicare<\/strong> &#8211; Joe Weisenthal &#8211; A clever way of overturning the will of the people. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/massachusetts-may-drag-feet-on-seating-republican-if-he-wins-to-save-the-60th-vote-on-medicare-2010-1\">The Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/yahoo-finance.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"yahoo-finance\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/yahoo-finance_thumb.png\" width=\"184\" height=\"37\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>White House credits stimulus with up to 2M jobs<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100113\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_obama_jobs\">AP Yahoo<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bloomberg5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bloomberg\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bloomberg_thumb5.gif\" width=\"175\" height=\"39\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fed\u2019s Dudley Says Rates May Stay Low for as Long as Two Years &#8211;<\/strong> by Joshua Zumbrun &#8211;&nbsp; New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley said short-term interest rates may remain low for at least six months and possibly for as long as two years.&nbsp; \u201cShort-term rates are going to stay low for a considerable period of time to come,\u201d Dudley said yesterday, according to the transcript of an interview with PBS Television\u2019s Nightly Business Report. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=alMn.vj7PrN8\">Bloomberg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama Bank Fee to Hit 50 of the Biggest U.S. Financial Firms &#8211;<\/strong> By Julianna Goldman &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=a2qItTskcWQk&amp;pos=1\">Bloomberg<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surlytrader.com\/interest-rate-outlook\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"st1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/st1.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"211\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/surly-trader2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"surly-trader\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/surly-trader_thumb2.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"39\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Interest Rate Outlook &#8211; &#8230;&nbsp; So, what comes next?<\/strong>&nbsp; &#8230;&nbsp; The fed is now interested in \u201ctesting\u201d the strength of this recovery.&nbsp; How does it do that?&nbsp; By letting long term interest rates rise to where the market thinks they should be.&nbsp; <strong>Think of it as an experiment.&nbsp; How will the fed facilitate this experiment? By slowly shutting down its asset-purchase programs. &#8230;<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surlytrader.com\/interest-rate-outlook\/\">Surly Trader<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/nypmasthead21.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"nypmasthead2\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/nypmasthead2_thumb1.gif\" width=\"195\" height=\"39\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fanning Fannie worries &#8211;<\/strong> By PAUL THARP &#8211; As the White House pushes its plan to yank billions in taxes from financial firms, two of the biggest and dysfunctional companies are getting a free pass.&nbsp; <strong>Mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are exempt from the proposed tax, despite having played central roles in the financial crisis<\/strong>. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/business\/fanning_fannie_worries_UzOsLelsoBZQnHPtkhnmDN#ixzz0cgjEZ85m\">NY Post<\/a>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/reuters10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"reuters\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/reuters_thumb10.png\" width=\"153\" height=\"51\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Banks, experts eye possible ways around Obama fee &#8211;<\/strong> By Dan Wilchins \u2013 No sooner does Washington propose a new tax than an army of experts tries to figure out ways to avoid it.&nbsp; That is already the case with U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s proposed fee on banks, designed to ensure that Wall Street banks pay up to $117 billion to reimburse taxpayers for the financial bailout: Bankers, lawyers and consultants are already considering ways to avoid paying the fee.&nbsp; &#8220;<strong>This law could be a real boon for lawyers and consultants like me. There are tremendous opportunities for coming up with new mechanisms to avoid it,&#8221; said Bert Ely<\/strong>, a bank consultant in Alexandria, Virginia. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20100114\/bs_nm\/us_obama_banks_avoidance\">Reuters<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ustreasury-press-release.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ustreasury-press-release\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ustreasury-press-release_thumb.png\" width=\"253\" height=\"59\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Administration Releases December Loan Modification Report,<\/strong> Update on Conversion Drive &#8211; More Than 850,000 Homeowners Now with Median Payment Reductions Exceeding $500; More Than 100,000 Permanent Modifications Approved to Date &#8211; Aggressive Administration Campaign Significantly Accelerates Conversion Rate; December Push Doubles Number of Permanent Modifications Over Life of Program &#8211; thanks Marty Rosenblatt &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treas.gov\/press\/releases\/tg508.htm\">US TreasuryPress Release<\/a> <br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/forbes_home_logo5.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"forbes_home_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/forbes_home_logo_thumb5.gif\" width=\"130\" height=\"45\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis<\/strong> &#8211; Nouriel Roubini and Arpitha Bykere &#8211; Will investors move out of their &#8216;&#8217;safe haven&#8221; markets? &#8211; In 2009, <strong>downgrades and debt auction failures in countries like the UK, Greece, Ireland and Spain were a stark reminder that unless advanced economies begin to put their fiscal houses in order, investors and rating agencies will likely turn from friends to foes<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/01\/13\/sovereign-debt-crisis-opinions-colummnists-nouriel-roubini-arpitha-bykere.html\">Forbes<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hw14.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"hw1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hw1_thumb4.gif\" width=\"266\" height=\"35\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fannie, Freddie Cost the Government $291bn in 2009<\/strong> &#8211; DIANA GOLOBAY &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/2010\/01\/14\/fannie-freddie-cost-government-291bn-in-2009\/\">HousingWire<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/investors-insight.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"investors-insight\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/investors-insight_thumb.png\" width=\"328\" height=\"49\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/johnm-frontline1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"johnm-frontline\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/johnm-frontline_thumb1.gif\" width=\"233\" height=\"44\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>On the ending of QE &#8211; When the Fed Stops the Music<\/strong> &#8211; John Mauldin&#8217;s Thoughts From The Frontline &#8211; &#8230; This is yet another uncertainty. We simply have no idea, no relevant marker, for what happens when a country goes so cold turkey, coming off a central bank bond-buying binge. <strong>And this in the midst of a massive deleveraging and with stock market valuations basically where they were in 1987 &#8211; except there was at least large earnings growth then. &#8230;<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investorsinsight.com\/blogs\/thoughts_from_the_frontline\/archive\/2010\/01\/15\/when-the-fed-stops-the-music.aspx\">Investor&#8217;s Insight<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=kBmJZ13cn7c:3bsD4X-OEho:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=kBmJZ13cn7c:3bsD4X-OEho:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=kBmJZ13cn7c:3bsD4X-OEho:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=kBmJZ13cn7c:3bsD4X-OEho:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=kBmJZ13cn7c:3bsD4X-OEho:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=kBmJZ13cn7c:3bsD4X-OEho:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=kBmJZ13cn7c:3bsD4X-OEho:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe\/~4\/kBmJZ13cn7c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Institutional Risk Analyst: Why Big is Bad; Alex Pollock on Sarbanes-Oxley and the Financial Crisis&nbsp; &#8211; Christopher Whalen &#8211; In this issue of The IRA, we discuss why Big is Bad when it comes to large banks.&nbsp; Then we feature a comment by Alex Pollock on \u201cSarbanes-Oxley in the Light of the Financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}