Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve started a rate-cutting cycle on Sept. 18, 2025, lowering its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points (bps) to a range of 4.75% to 5%. The cut was the first since March 2020 after the Fed raised interest rates to a 23-year high point to cool the economy and quell inflation. The Fed cut rates two more times in 2024, each by 25 basis points. It has not cut interest rates so far in 2025.
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Schumer: Feds Need to Investigate Countrywide’s FHLB Advances
Nov 26, 2007U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) on Monday called for federal regulators to probe billions of dollars of loans made by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta to Countrywide Financial. By the end of September, Countrywide had borrowed $51.4 billion from the FHLB system, 37 percent of the Atlanta bank’s outstanding advances, leading Schumer to charge the Calabasas, Calif.-based lender with using the government-backed lending programs “like its personal ATM.”
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Bernanke Surprise: An Explicit Government Guarantee for Jumbo Mortgages?
Nov 08, 2007 -
WSJ: Fed Injects $41 Billion in Liquidity
Nov 02, 2007 -
Merrill Lynch’s Rosenberg: “The Fed is Too Late”
Oct 29, 2007 -
NetBank Folds on Subprime Trouble: Biggest Bank Failure Since S&L Crisis
Sep 28, 2007 -
Fixed Mortgage Rates Rise for Second Straight Week
Sep 27, 2007 -
HUD Official: Mortgage Defaults Not ‘Drastically’ Increasing
Sep 24, 2007 -
Fed Drops Target Rate 50 Basis Points
Sep 18, 2007 -
Federal Banking Regulators Encourage ‘Proactive’ Loss Mitigation Strategies
Sep 04, 2007 -
Bernanke: No Such Thing as Containment, Fed Will ‘Do What is Needed’
Aug 31, 2007 -
Fed’s Concern Over Mortgage Markets Grows
Aug 29, 2007 -
The Borrower Bailout Fallacy: Why PIMCO’s Bill Gross is Flat-Out Wrong
Aug 25, 2007
