No evidence was provided, but it is quite in keeping with prior reports on MHProNews that documents hundreds of millions from the Gates Foundation to the World Health Organization (WHO) which in turns is cited by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as the BL4 lab admits on their own website.
Another MHI source has provided some leaked emails to MHProNews which will be the topic of an upcoming report. More on that in the days ahead.
With that teaser, let’s pivot to the headline topic. From the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) website is the following bio on Edward Pinto, J.D.
Along with AEI Resident Scholar Stephen Oliner, Mr. Pinto created the Wealth Building Home Mortgage, a new approach to home finance designed to provide a more reliable and effective way of building wealth than is available under existing policies. This mortgage allows home buyers to maintain a buying power similar to a 30-year loan. It is aimed at a broad range of homebuyers, including low-income, minority, and first-time buyers.
Before joining AEI, Mr. Pinto was an executive vice president and chief credit officer for Fannie Mae until the late 1980s. Today, he is frequently interviewed on radio and television and often testifies before Congress. His writings have been published in trade publications and the popular press, including in the American Banker, The Hill, RealClearPolitics, and The Wall Street Journal. In addition, as the director of the AEI Housing Center, he oversees the monthly publication of the AEI Housing Market Indicators, which has replaced AEI’s monthly Housing Risk Watch and AEI’s FHA Watch.
Mr. Pinto has a JD from Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Experience
- Housing finance industry: Consultant, 1989–present
- Courtesy Settlement Services LLC: President and CEO, 1994–2018
- ICBA (Independent Community Bankers of America) SmartLender LLC: President and CEO, 2004–10
- Fannie Mae: Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer, 1987–89; Senior Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, 1985–87; Vice President, Negotiated Transactions, 1984–85
End of extended quote from the source shown. - Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation: Capital-Markets Program Manager, 1984; Senior Legal Counsel, 1982–83
- Michigan State Housing Development Authority: General Counsel, 1977–82; Staff Attorney, 1974–77”
Pinto and his colleagues work have periodically been the subject of reports on MHProNews for some time. The message below was provided to MHProNews by Pinto, was also published on the Real Clear Markets website and is used further below with permission.
As regular readers of this evening marketing/investor highlight know, that report is in our featured focus module further below, beyond our left-right headline and related market snapshot recap. Along with our standard fare, Pinto’s op-ed will be our featured focus this evening.
Every Business Nightly – Headline Insights-at-a-Glance.
Every weekday night that the stock markets are open, we provide headlines from left-of-center CNN followed by right-of-center Fox Business. It is sometimes surprising how much We share closing tickers and other related data courtesy of Yahoo Finance, and more. 5 to 10 minutes reading this MHProNews market report every business night could save you 30 minutes to an hour of similar reading or fact-gathering elsewhere.
Perhaps more important, you will get insights about the industry from experts that care, but also dare to challenge the routine narrative that arguably keeps manufactured housing underperforming during an affordable housing crisis.
Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business
- Who’s really in charge
- People keep social distance as they queue in front of the supermarket on April 11, 2020, in New York City. – The US overtook Italy on April to become the country with the largest death toll in the coronavirus pandemic, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. On april 10, the US reported 2,108 new deaths, the highest daily toll out of any country since the outbreak was first reported.
- ANALYSIS
- Americans, not politicians, hold the key to reopening the economy
- Workers across the globe are suffering. 16 of them share how they’re trying to hold on
- LIVE UPDATES Stocks close higher on optimism over better-than-expected trade data from China
- The IMF says coronavirus will lead to the worst recession since the Great Depression
- JPMorgan’s profit plummets nearly 70%
- Auto dealers are closed. Sales have plunged. Online sales are now the industry’s best hope
- These companies beg you not to use their products during the crisis
- This is another 9/11 for online travel companies
- McDonald’s apologizes after one of its stores in China banned black people
- Louis Vuitton, Burberry and Chanel are making face masks
- Trump rips from episode of Sean Hannity’s show for propaganda video
- A pedestrian wearing a protective mask walks past a Citigroup Inc. Citibank branch in New York, U.S., on Friday, April 10, 2020. Citigroup is scheduled to release earnings figures on April 15.
- Banks’ big, fat dividends are under fire as profits plunge
- 5 ways to get along with your new coworker – your spouse
- F6F9J5 RELEASE DATE: March 9, 1984 MOVIE TITLE: Splash DIRECTOR: Ron Howard STUDIO: Touchstone Pictures PLOT: Alan Bauer nearly drowned as a child but has memories of being saved by a young mermaid. When he is jilted as an adult and loses his wallet in the surf, the young mermaid tries to return it. They are soulmates who have been meant for each other, but Madison fears how he will react when he finds out she is not human.
- Disney+ edited ‘Splash’ by covering Daryl Hannah’s butt with long hair
- MARKETS
- THE GIG ECONOMY
- FALMOUTH, MA – APRIL 8: Instacart shopper Loralyn Geggatt makes a delivery to a customer’s home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Falmouth, MA on April 7, 2020. Some Amazon, Instacart and other workers protested for better wages, hazard pay and sick time.
- People lure Instacart shoppers with big tips, then change them to zero
- Gig workers struggle to access unemployment help
- Uber updates brand-new coronavirus pay policy
- Quarantined Lyft and Uber drivers fight for sick pay
- For delivery workers, the pay — and the risks — are bigger than ever
- HOUSING
- Neat line of suburban houses in Fairfax, Virginia. (Photo by: Robert Knopes/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
- Why you should think twice about delaying your mortgage payments
- More Americans are having trouble paying their rent
- Here’s what to do if you can’t pay your rent
- How to handle a real estate deal in a pandemic
- Opinion: The Trump administration may turn a health crisis into a housing crisis
Headlines from right-of-center Fox Business
- Dow jumps 558+ points, Nasdaq exits bear market as coronavirus concerns ease
- Wall Street analysts predict S&P 500 earnings will tumble 9 percent from a year ago, the first quarterly decline since the financial crisis.
- Coronavirus prompts fat cat investors to hoard most cash since 9/11
- Next wave of layoffs hits staffers working from home as sales plunge
- Kudlow: Trump planning ‘important’ reveal
- NY virus hospitalizations fall for first time
- Rite Aid expands testing across 7 states
- Boeing crisis deepens with cancellations
- Find out when your relief check will arrive
- Small biz loan fund running out of cash
- IMF: World to see worst slump since ’30s
- Opinion: US ready to shape global energy markets with this game-changing power
- Fauci: America not read on key steps to reopen economy
- CDC reveals coronavirus crisis’ horrible toll on health care workers
- Coronavirus survivors tell Trump hydroxychloroquine helped
- Cellphone companies: Coronavirus lock down changing how Americans talk
- 1957-2020
- SPORTS
- Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dead at 63
- Dairy prices spiraling as quarantined customers dry up
- Facebook, LinkedIn allegedly ‘eavesdropped’ on Zoom video calls
- Burning Man officials sue to prevent release of financial information
- State won’t order residents stay home despite pork plant coronavirus outbreak
- Restaurants offering free food during pandemic
- Airlines consider coronavirus social distancing and face masks
- ‘SAFE FLIGHT’ TAKES NEW MEANING
- AIRLINES
- Airlines consider coronavirus social distancing and face masks
- PUT PANTS ON!
- Fed-up judge has stern message for lawyers appearing on Zoom
- Exclusive island off Florida pays to test every resident for coronavirus
- Coronavirus deaths hit 45 at Virginia care home called ‘virus’s dream’
- Fiat Chrysler recalls more than 550,000 pickups and SUVs
- Coronavirus boosting sales of these popular treats, Nestle USA CEO says
- Buying a car during coronavirus? CarMax adds contactless curbside pickup
- Etsy CEO: Coronavirus face masks now being sold by 20,000 shops
- Apple, Google coronavirus tracking tool will require verification
- SEE IT: Truck driver rescued from cab dangling 70 feet over river
- Fed’s Bullard says coronavirus shutdown costs US up to $25B daily in lost output
- Varney: Coronavirus conversation shifted towards getting America back to work
- How much money you should have in emergency fund right now
- Hartzler: Dems must start to work with Trump before we really run out of money
- WebMD launches feature for people concerned they may have coronavirus
- White House touts billions in coronavirus grants for innovators
- Obama endorses Biden, after months on 2020 campaign sidelines
- Local realtor steps up for health workers at gas station
- MLB commissioner: When you can expect to see baseball’s return
- California to release coronavirus restrictions rollback plan
- Nancy Pelosi says testing and protective equipment are keys in the coronavirus fight
- FDA approves coronavirus saliva test
- Union president Trumka: We must have ‘disease standard’ before returning to work
- Two of world’s biggest pharma giants partner to find coronavirus vaccine
- JPMorgan profit shrinks, recession threat forces hike in loan reserves
- Varney: Trump, governors leading coronavirus response is ‘as it should be’
- Ayn Rand’s dystopia is here right now and ‘Atlas’ is shrugging
- Why largest US retailers are slashing access to inventories
- When you can expect to see summer blockbuster movies
- Storms rip across southern states, killing dozens and scrambling power lines
- Pandemic forces campaigns to shakeup fundraising strategies
- Coronavirus stimulus cash could come on prepaid cards
- IRS prepares to launch resource to speed up stimulus checks
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Featured Focus – Where Business, Politics and Investing Can Meet
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:36 PM Edward Pinto wrote to MHProNews: “This opinion piece of mine appeared earlier today.”
Coronavirus, and the Media’s Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Reading breathless headlines such as this, one would never know that the on a cases per million population basis, the United States is on par with Germany, often held out as a European country with a low incidence of cases, and well below the rates for Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, and Switzerland.
But wait, this must be because of the US’s low testing rate, notwithstanding that our testing rate per million is above that of Spain, France, the UK, and Switzerland.
“The United States is reporting 20,000 coronavirus deaths, more than any other country” – CNN
This headline gives no hint that the US has one of the lowest death rates per million, when compared to Western European countries. In fact, the rate for Spain is about 6 times the US, with Italy, France, Belgium, and UK, being 5 times, 4 times, 6 times, and 2.5 times respectively. Only Germany has a rate lower, at about half the US’s.
“What California is doing right in responding to the coronavirus pandemic” – CNN
Yes, California does have a low rate per million of cases and deaths. But Texas is lower on both metrics and is little praised. In terms of cases, California is at 572 per million, but Texas, the second most populous state, has an even lower rate of 474. What about the much maligned state of Florida? Yes, its rate is higher at 939, but this is about half the rate in Pennsylvania, and one tenth the rate in New York. The multiples for New Jersey, Michigan, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Illinois, Georgia, Connecticut, Washington, Maryland, Indiana, and Colorado are all higher. Of the 16 states with the largest number of cases, Texas, California, and Florida have the lowest numbers of cases per million.
“How California Has Avoided a Coronavirus Outbreak as Bad as New York’s…So Far: Earlier stay-at-home orders and a less dense population have helped state manage pandemic, but risk remains high, particularly in L.A.” – WSJ
This reporting on California seems to confuse correlation with causation. Texas’s stay-at-home order (March 31) came much later than California (March 19), yet, as already noted, its metrics are much better that California’s. Florida’s order came a day later than Texas’s and, as already noted, has the third lowest case per million. Its deaths per million stands at 22, only somewhat higher than California’s 16. And Texas’ stands at 10, one of the lowest rates in the country. The facts around California, Texas, and Florida, suggest that stay-at-home orders be unnecessary in these large, less, densely populated states. Social distancing, limits on crowd size, and a focus on vulnerable populations may be a much more sensible solution, one that inflicts much less damage on the economy and economic well-being of most American households.
Providing the complete facts to the American people is of the utmost importance as we debate and decide how and when to start reopening the economy and begin some normalization of activities. The data demonstrate that the pandemic has been most severe in 8 states with the highest number of cases per million population: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Louisiana, and Connecticut. These 8 states account for 67% 0f all cases and, as recently as April 11, accounted for 71% of new cases. With the exception of Mardi Gras–plagued Louisiana, 7 of these hard-hit states are in the Northeast and Midwest.
The sooner we begin to take measured steps in the weeks ahead to start reopening the economy and begin some normalization of activities, the sooner we will stop inflicting incalculable harm on our economy and American households.
Edward J. Pinto
Director, AEI Housing Center
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American Enterprise Institute
1789 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20036
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MHProNews Additional Insights, Analysis and Commentary
Arguably not unrelated to AEI Housing Center Director Pinto’s op-ed is the spirited exchange yesterday following a video played by President Trump during the White House coronavirus media briefing. The first video is from right-of-center Fox News.
Fox 10 provided this video clip. This clip from the 4.13.2020 press conference includes the White House communication’s team timeline video that touches on points similar to those made by Pinto.
Additional related topics, both general and manufactured housing specific, are found below.
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Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Closing Equities Tickers
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