The Lede

Wall Street Journal, Oct. 16, 2015--Lowenstein, Roger Antipathy to the central bank is a uniquely American tradition. No federal agency, except the Internal Revenue service, is held in lower regard than the Federal Reserve, according to public opinion surveys. The left accuses the Fed of being too cozy with banks; the right says it is planting the seeds of a massive inflation.

Denver Post, Oct. 16, 2015--Rusch, Emilie Nearly one million square feet of new office space came online during a strong third quarter for the Denver commercial real estate market, according to CBRE.

Wall Street Journal, Oct. 17, 2015--Karmin, Craig; Brown, Eliot A banker and a former politician from Kazakhstan tried to launder tens of millions of dollars of stolen money through New York real-estate holdings, a civil lawsuit alleges.

Wall Street Journal, Oct. 18, 2015--Chung, Juliet; Krouse, Sarah Profit-crunching low interest rates have banks judging cash too costly to keep.

U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 16, 2015--Soergel, Andrew The number of job openings in the U.S. fell at the end of August, as more workers were hired and despite the fact that the number of employees voluntarily leaving their jobs reached a five-month high.

USA Today, Oct. 18, 2015--Huang, Jayue The days of slogging through four overlapping, complex mortgage disclosure forms are gone. The new Know Before You Owe rules aim to clear up the confusion.

Wall Street Journal, Oct. 18, 2015--Grant, Peter There was both good news and bad news last week at an event hosted by Rubicon Venture Capital for the dozens of technology startups trying to muscle into New York's real-estate-services industry.

The Mortgage Bankers Association's Commercial/Multifamily Technology Officer Roundtable takes place Nov. 4-5 at MBA headquarters in Washington, D.C. 

MISMO seeks qualified nominations for its Standards Governance Committees for two-year terms beginning in January. The nominations deadline has been extended to Friday, Oct. 30.

SAN DIEGO--The Mortgage Bankers Association's 102nd Annual Convention & Expo kicks off in earnest this morning with a full slate of activities.