Easy to understand explanation of FHA mortgage insurance.

The Onion’s laugh-out-loud take on summer superhero movies.

Summary of Friday’s fundamentals: personal income/spending, PCE inflation, consumer sentiment (forgot to click Publish yesterday!).

Get your cool back for the weekend.

Today’s Originations linkfest is on how to keep up to speed on Europe—which is critical for U.S. rate markets.

Roundup of today’s GDP, jobless claims, corporate profits.

Can anything be done about political paralysis holding back markets?

Rate outlook with charts.

Why housing will continue bumping along bottom nationally. The real deals exist locally.

Today’s data recap.