The Basis Point is hosting a Close To Home affordability workshop to update lenders & realtors on consumer finance & homeownership trends.
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ICE Experience 2025 is the largest mortgage fintech conference in America. The Basis Point Live Blog has all the details.
Trump nominated former FDIC board member and senior FHFA policy counsel Jonathan McKernan as CFPB director, pending quick Senate confirmation
Former Treasury Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew, Yellen detail “the risks of arbitrary and capricious political control of federal payments” by DOGE
Trump administration ordered Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all work, effectively shutting down agency created to protect consumers after 2008 financial crisis
Musk Department of Government Efficiency has is now embedded inside Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, step one in dismantling agency
Bloomberg did the first extended interview with new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, covering every major issue facing America. Worth the watch.
U.S. economy added 143k jobs in January, and December was revised up to 307k. Healthcare, retail, government jobs led way. Will this change as Trump thins out government?
New CFPB acting director halts all key activities day one. Here's what may come next.
Former headge fund manager Scott Bessent who was just confirmed as Treasury Secretary, has now also been named acting head of America's top consumer finance regulator, the CFBP
Homebuilder tariffs would make U.S. home affordability even worse. Buyers of newly built homes already need to make $131,000 per year to qualify.
This interview with DeepSeek founder clarifies his thoughts on AI vision, pricing, competition, and endgame
Trump fires CFPB director Rohit Chopra. Here's a Linkage roundup of the key news on America's top consumer finance regulator.
The big deal about DeepSeek isn't that it's a new AI competitor. It's that it represents lower AI costs for mortgage lenders and other firms.
Josh Brown at Ritholtz Wealth Management explain the scale of Nvidia's DeepSeek loss, and whether DeepSeek is hype or not

