On today’s episode of the Knowledge Brokers Podcast, Byron Lazine, Lisa Chinatti, and Tom Toole break down President Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh as the next Fed Chair and key takeaways from the latest Fed meeting and Powell’s press conference.
They also dig into the Rocket Mortgage steering lawsuit and CoStar’s response to the investor letter criticizing the billions spent building Homes.com.
⏰ Timestamps
00:00–01:32 Intro
01:32 TOPIC 1: Trump nominates Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair
11:43 “GDP is ripping…”
16:01 TOPIC 2: Fed Meeting & Powell’s press conference
24:05 Colleges can’t keep up with AI evolution
30:11 TOPIC 3: Rocket Lawsuit
37:47 Do Rocket, Zillow, etc. know something about RESPA that we don’t?
44:10 TOPIC 4: Costar responds to Third Point letter attacking its Homes.com spend
51:32 Byron’s response to critiques of Andy Florance’s executive pay