Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) today announced that he will retire from Congress at the end of 2024. Luetkemeyer currently is chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance and International Financial Institutions. He has served in Congress since 2009 and previously spent 30 years in the financial services industry working as a state banking examiner and community banker.
New homes sales edge up in October
Sales of new single-family houses in October 2025 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 737,000, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is...








