Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke this week endorsed the reduction in high-cost conforming loan limits set to be implemented in October. The Mortgage Bankers Association, meanwhile, called for an extension of the existing loan limits through the end of 2012. Major banks and other non-agency players are eagerly anticipating the decline in the top loan limit from $729,750 to $625,500. A number of banks have indicated that they are ready and willing to make non-agency jumbos. In separate testimony this week before two committees of Congress, Bernanke said lowering ...