1.   Blinder said Thursday that he had originally intended to give another speech to the mortgage bankers but changed his plans after the stir over his Wyoming speech.

2.   A group of mortgage bankers fail to show for their appointment.

3.   A proposal from accounting standard-setters could make a popular financing tool more expensive for mortgage bankers.

4.   All mortgage bankers agree that getting a mortgage has become easier for those who have a steady income.

5.   Brimmer says mortgage bankers insist on it because they use the after-tax costs to determine if a potential buyer can afford a home.

6.   By bundling ordinary home mortgages as securities and selling them to investors, mortgage bankers can make more loans.

7.   City Line, a smallish, eight-year old family-owned mortgage banker in San Diego, is not being charitable.

8.   Consider Jeff Wade, a mortgage banker in Washington who just refinanced his own mortgage.

9.   For McDonough, a former short-lived mortgage banker, that touch appears to spring from a consuming love of the material.

10.   However, other federal officials said they will look more closely at whether mortgage bankers, mortgage brokers and consumer finance companies are practicing lending discrimination.