Greetings from the Arch MI meeting room space! Heard in the hallways here at the MBA’s Secondary conference in Manhattan: “Our loan officers are telling their clients, ‘Yeah, the best time to buy a house was five years ago. The second-best time is… now.’” People’s memories are short, no one writes about how our industry helped millions of people during the pandemic, and the mainstream press is always looking for sensationalism. The latest example is “zombie mortgages”: 2nd mortgages taken out during 2008-2010 and that haven’t been paid. And we’re to blame? UWM’s DPA program, purportedly tied to Freddie, has garnered some interest. There’s another saying: the stock market is not the economy. But last week the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 40,000 for the first time in history. Apparently, investors have confidence the Federal Reserve will get inflation under control without throwing the country into a recession. Should we attribute this to the policies advanced by President Joe Biden and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen? Some will. On an annualized basis, during the Trump Administration the Dow rose 11.8 percent, Barack Obama (+12.1 percent) and Bill Clinton (+15.9 percent). (Found here, this week’s podcasts are Sponsored by Truv. Truv lets applicants verify income, employment, assets, insurance, and switch direct deposits. Unlock the power of open finance, with Truv. Today’s features an interview with attorney Jay Beitel on the Supreme Court finding the funding of the CFPB constitutional.)