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On regulators' crackdown on misleading mortgage ads:

"If Congress had simply outlawed mortgage brokering, 99% of the problems would have been solved. Instead, we got a byzantine set of rules that produce dizzying disclosures that lenders cannot explain and borrowers cannot understand."

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On Fannie Mae's bid to lower force-placed insurance premiums:

"If Fannie is balking [at] the premiums, imagine what they did to regular borrowers struggling to make payments."

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On examiners' fears that decisions will be overturned by CEOs' calls to Washington:

"The supervisory process is so unnecessarily layered with people [who] don't understand the industry that the 'tough calls' may be dead out wrong or changed in the supervisory review process without any input at all by the financial institution."

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On whether borrowers should pay higher mortgage guarantee fees in states where foreclosures take the longest:

"Passing the costs of one state's consumer protections to consumers in other states where the degree of such protections are not the same is yet another instance of wealth redistribution."

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On Fed Governor Elizabeth Duke's call for two-tiered mortgage regulation:

"Good for you, Gov. Duke. Thank you for recognizing that small banks may want to do things differently than the bigs."

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On community banks' lobbying to extend the Transaction Account Guarantee program:

"The TBTFs don't need TAG because they already have the implicit taxpayer guarantee for all their deposits. The 7,400 non-[TBTF] banks have to buy the coverage."

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On bank customers' lack of interest in personal financial management tools:

"Never equate what your few Quicken clients want with what the vast majority of your customers really want and do."

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On bankers' lobbying for a safe harbor for all qualified mortgages:

"The QM rule was intended to restrict the types of mortgages and easy credit previously offered … Politics is taking this rulemaking in the opposite direction."

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On Umpqua Bank providing branch customers with hot lines to its CEO:

"If they really want to hear from customers, how about publishing his number on the website?"

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On community groups urging that Wells Fargo receive a failing grade for Community Reinvestment Act compliance:

"Wells Fargo should be worried."

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On bankers' concerns about the increasing burden of new mortgage disclosures:

"This is preposterous nonsense. Get your computers prepared and the documents come rolling out. Bankers are such a bunch of loser whiners."

Related Article: Proposed Mortgage Disclosure Forms Increase Burden, Banks Say

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