Lending

For Starbucks Chairman/ CEO Howard Schultz, waiting for Washington to come up with tangible plans to generate more jobs is not a likely course of action these days.

The NCUA will likely have much to consider as it reads through more than 280 comment letters that came in on the agencys proposal to amend the CUSO rule.

Credit unions by and large have been seen as the good guys in the ongoing housing finance crisis. In general, more conservative underwriting prevented most credit unions from making the mortgage loans that were most likely to wind up delinquent.

Two members of the House add support; 218 needed.

GSE expense trimmed to $124 billion.

Previous limit of $300,000 can now be exceeded "in certain circumstances."