HELOC, Marketing, Down Payment Products; STRATMOR Tech Survey; Compliance Based on Customer Expectations

Today we hear from the U.S. Federal Reserve. We can expect no change to overnight fed funds. As pointed yesterday by Dr. Paul Brewbaker, the economist who spoke here at the MBA Hawai’i conference, the Fed can only shoot at one target at a time: inflation or employment. They have to pick one and have picked inflation. So far so good. Besides that, he tore into tariffs, and their result on what individuals and countries do in response to them as evidenced by what happened during the first Trump Administration: China moving its manufacturing facilities to non-tariff countries to circumvent the tariffs. But back to the Fed… Industry…