This week, Bill Bodnar discusses the impact of slowing global economies, keeping economic expansion alive, the Fed rate cut, and the upcoming jobs report.

Purchasers of homes do not appear to have been held back by recent weeks’ uptick in interest rates. So reports CNBC, citing a pair of reports from the Mortgage Bankers’ Association.

Don Layton, Senior Industry Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University and CEO of Freddie Mac from May 2012 until June 2019, offers his perspectives on the the US Treasury’s much-awaited Housing Reform Plan.

As U.S. home mortgage rates dipped to new three-year lows, mortgage applications to buy or refinance a home increased in early September, the Mortgage Banking Association’s weekly data show. So reports Reuters.