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Economic Commentary

Mortgage Brokers and Fair Lending

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Fair-lending issues have gained new prominence over the course of the last decade. Spurred in part by the controversial findings of the now-famous “Boston Fed Study,” financial institutions have come under more intense scrutiny over compliance with fair-lending laws, with the Department of Justice taking action in more than a dozen lendingdiscrimination cases since 1990.

05.15.1999ISSN 2163-3738 EC 5/15/1999

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Longhofer, Stanley, and Paul Calem. 1999. “Mortgage Brokers and Fair Lending.” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary 5/15/1999.

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