BLUELINE Blog
Downside Risks in the Mortgage Market
07
April,
2020
/ by Michael Clark, Ph.D.
Published April 7, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is not a housing crisis in its nature, but there are several places throughout the industry where the pandemic or policy response to it has hit at some vulnerabilities in the market. For the most part, these vulnerabilities tend to [...]
The CARES Act and its Impact on the Economy and the Mortgage Market
03
April,
2020
/ by Michael Clark, Ph.D.
Published April 3, 2020
There are two primary concerns for the mortgage industry in regard to the pandemic: one is the secondary market losing liquidity and the primary market drying up; the other is the possibility that the pandemic will cause a wave of unemployment and lack of [...]