Stephen Basaja
speaker
961 appearances
129 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard yesterday
Stephen Basaja’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 129 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 38.
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Builders are dealing with rising construction costs and high interest rates.
Most of the builders responded before the Trump administration announced new housing policies, like ordering Fannie and Freddie Mac to buy up $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities to lower mortgage rates.
The average 30-year mortgage is down.
It's just over 6%.
But that's still well above COVID-era rates that make many homeowners reluctant to sell.
Stephen Passaha, NPR News.
A district court judge has temporarily blocked many of the administration's actions to dismantle the CFPB, but also recently wrote the agency is, quote, hanging by a thread.
Rohit Chopra was fired from his role leading the CFPB early in Trump's current term.
He says the agency's purpose is to protect people's pocketbooks.
The Bureau's acting director, Russell Vogt, has argued that staff have unfairly punished small lenders and financial institutions.
Stephen Basaja, NPR News.
Visa and MasterCard are by far the biggest credit card payment networks.
And when you swipe one of their cards, the seller has little choice beyond accepting their fees.
But Republican Senator Roger Marshall and Democrat Dick Durbin are reintroducing a law that would let merchants sometimes use other networks, ideally with lower fees to save money.
They're re-upping the bill after President Trump supported it in a social media post.
Trump is also pushing to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, another policy with bipartisan support in Congress.
One estimate put credit card swipe fees in 2024 at more than $236 billion.
Stephen Passaha, NPR News.
Trump spoke with reporters aboard Air Force One and said credit card companies are abusing customers with those high rates.
Because, you know, some of them are 28, almost 30 percent.
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