Lou in the Media
Lou’s opinions are occasionally featured in national media such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, as well as local outlets like The Denver Post and Boulder’s Daily Camera. Here is a sampling:
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Lending Logjam Curbs Growth 11/17/11
Rate Drop Spurs Home Refinancing 9/24/11
Fed Launches New Stimulus 9/22/11
Tighter Lending Crimps Housing 6/25/11
Rise in Rates Is Headwind for Housing 2/10/11
Mortgages: Why It May Be Time to Refinance Your Loan 4/10/10
Low Rates Put Some Borrowers In a Quandary 4/16/09
Self-Employed Are Frozen Out of Mortgages 12/2/08
Mortgage Plan Isn’t Cutting Rates 10/30/08 – PDF
FHA Loans Grow Costly as Banks Add Fees 4/4/08 – PDF
U.S. Puts Faith in Fannie, Freddie 3/28/08 – PDF
Fed Rate Cut Halts Market Free Fall, But Recession Fears Are Mounting 1/23/08 – PDF
Mortgage Pain Hits Prudent Borrowers 12/11/07
Paulson Urges Congress To Act on Loan Woes 12/4/07 – PDF
Why Libor Defies Gravity 9/5/07 – PDF
How Credit Got So Easy And Why It’s Tightening 8/8/07
THE NEW YORK TIMES
No Extra Credit 9/20/11
A Market Frozen By Fear 8/28/2010
Analysts Question a Threat by Fannie 6/24/10
The Bailout Bill Comes Due, Vexing Agencies 9/18/09
Tight Mortgage Rules Exclude Even Good Risks 7/10/09
Woes Afflicting Mortgage Giants Raise Loan Rates 7/23/08
Credit Time Bomb Ticked, but Few Heard 8/19/07
TIME MAGAZINE
Verbatim 7/27/09 – PDF
THE DENVER POST
Fed hopes $400 billion “twist” lowers long-term lending rates 9/22/11
Buyers still feeling chill of downturn 8/15/2010
Jury’s out on what will happen after tax credit for homebuyers expires 4/12/10
Fed’s Hoenig says low interest rates may set up new problems 4/4/10
Rise looming in home down payments, loan rates 12/11/07
DAILY CAMERA
Fourth-quarter Boulder- and Broomfield-area home sales drop 11 percent 1/12/11
Colorado foreclosure sales down 4 percent 2/4/10
Foreclosures climbing 11/18/07 – PDF
BOULDER COUNTY BUSINESS REPORT
Boulder Valley housing market offers reassuring signs 5/13-26/11 – PDF
