At a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Fed Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles was asked by Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, Democrat for North Dakota, whether a government guarantee was “essential” for “retaining” the 30-year mortgage instruments. Quarles replied: “My belief today is probably not.”
Heitkamp indicated she disagreed strongly.
“There are a number of people in smaller or mid-sized institutions who believe it would be difficult to take a 30-year interest-rate risk without some kind of assurance they could offset that risk,” Heitkamp said.
Is stagflation temporary?
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I have been gazumped by two red-hot inflation reports in two days, even as
growth slows sharply in Australia and the US. First, in Australia,
quarterly d...
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