“The review, which involves several government agencies regulating different parts of the mortgage industry, was spurred by the release of new banking data last month by the Federal Reserve, which for the first time compiled statistics on high-cost loans,” writes today’s Washington Post. “The Fed analysis found that about a third of blacks got high-price loans when they bought a house in 2004, compared with about 9 percent of non-Hispanic whites. About 20 percent of Hispanics got the more costly loans.