FHFA’s Calabria said capital rules for Fannie and Freddie don’t take place in a vacuum; they influence other financial decisions as well.

Fannie warns that the loss reserves required by the new FASB standard may exceed its retained earnings in the first quarter of 2020.

Economists test whether increasing conforming loan limits raises the level of homeownership.

When the Federal Reserve has finally “normalized” its balance sheet, allowing much of the $4.25 trillion in Treasuries and agency securities that it acquired through quantitative easing to gradually run off, there will still be as much as $1 trillion on the ledger, according to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last week.

After a year and a half of following its carefully scripted plan to normalize its balance sheet and return to good, old-fashioned monetary policy, the Federal Reserve muddied the waters at last week’s meeting of the Federal Open Markets Committee.

Speaking at a public forum recently, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the Fed will continue to offload the massive $4 trillion portfolio it acquired through quantitative easing in the wake of the housing crisis.