As nearly a thousand capital markets staff, managers, and vendors head home from Manhattan, united in trying to help borrowers, in a...

A mullah, a rabbi, and a priest walk into a bar here in New York. The bartender says, “What is this, some kind of joke?” What isn’t a...

People who don’t attend the National Secondary here in Manhattan wonder what happens behind the scenes. Here you go. We had the MCT...

My son Robbie told me that yesterday, on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, he was in line a few places behind the Dalai Lama at a hot dog cart....

This weekend is when many of us head to Manhattan for the MBA’s National Secondary event. For those flying in, check your ticket: NJ...

“There’s a splendid saying about the definition of an economist being someone who “will know tomorrow why the things they predicted...

As Roy Cohn once instructed a young Donald Trump, much can be accomplished by attacking first and dealing with the consequences later. I...

No one in places like Florida or Myrtle Beach or Colorado’s Glenwood Springs wants to wake up to a headline, sensationalist or not,...

Nearly a thousand of us head to Manhattan in less than a week for the MBA’s Secondary Conference. In 2025 Q1, the median asking rent in...

As noted earlier this week in the Commentary, builders report that the number of unsold homes is the highest since 2009, and in Sunbelt...

Here’s something that our Fed can’t do anything about, inflation-wise: coconut prices have doubled due to extreme weather events. (More...

“Why did the homeowner take so long in remodeling his home? He had trouble with da siding.” There are LOs, or correspondent investors,...

Most good loan originators are keenly aware of demographics in their area. Aren’t you tired of talking about a lack of inventory and...

This is the month of the MBA’s National Secondary in Manhattan. For some trivia, the nickname "The Big Apple" originated in the 1920s in...

Today celebrates Mexico’s victory over France in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. (In this country, Hispanic home ownership numbers...

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.” There’s plenty of...

Fortunately for the readers of this Commentary, we don’t receive federal funding, so it won’t be cut… Unlike groups like NPR and PBS ...

May Day… whether you celebrate today as “about” halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's Spring equinox and Midsummer solstice...