Despite these developments, FBR Capital Markets analyst Edwards Mills said passage of the Hensarling legislation is unlikely. “We continue to believe that major Congressional action on financial regulation is a 2018 event,” he writes in a new client note.
In June of last year, DeMarco co-authored a Milken Institute white paper entitled “Why Housing Reform Still Matters." In it, he argues: "…we need to preserve the liquidity and capacity of an active, globally financed MBS market…”