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Obama Asks for Help from Public to Reform Housing Finance System?
First of all, I just want to say that part of me feels as if I’m responding to one of those Internet rumors that says something about “Obama’s Citizenship Case to be Quietly Heard by Supreme Court,” or...
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Obama’s Speech Avoids Using the “N” Word…
(This is the article I wrote the night President Obama gave his first speech on how his administration would handle the financial crisis.) I will admit that President Barack Obama is facing challenges...
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Bringing Up the Rear: Treasury Secretary Tim “Transparency” Geithner and his...
Yeah, I know… you’re thinking I picked an easy target. Like, maybe I’m getting lazy. Almost like going hunting and shooting a deer wearing bifocals and pushing a walker. Well, not true, my...
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Sen. Whitehouse Questions Expose a Kinder, Gentler and possibly more...
During a Senate Budget Committee meeting, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island went straight at Treasury Secretary Geithner over Treasury’s abysmal track record and unquestionable...
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The Care Bair – FDIC’s Sheila Bair Wants Principal Reductions from Banks With...
First posted in December 2009,… but re-posted at reader’s request. I’ve had a love-hate relationship going with FDIC Chair, Sheila Bair since 2006. In case you don’t remember, Sheila was the Bush...
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Optimism Lost, and by Optimism, I mean Ben Bernanke and the NYT
The New York Times ran a story yesterday under the headline: Gloom Grips Consumers, and it May Be Home Prices. And all I could think to say was… “MAY?” It “MAY” be home prices? Like maybe it’s NOT...
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HO, HO, HOmeless… A Sobering View of the Crisis Affecting Us All
Originally posted in December of 2009… how tragic is that? Read it and you’ll see why. HO, HO, HOmeless! The Real Story Behind the Crisis We Still Don’t Want to Understand. A 46 year-old single mother...
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Loan Modifications Stop Foreclosures, Study Shows. DOER ALERT!
The Center for Responsible Lending (“CRL”), a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that works to stop foreclosure during this housing crisis and protect homeownership and family wealth, in it’s June...
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President Obama, Bored With the Foreclosure Crisis. That Explains A Lot,...
Jean Braucher is the Roger C. Henderson Professor of Law at the University of Arizona law school. She occasionally guest posts on Georgetown Law School Professor, Adam Levitin’s blog, Credit Slips....
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End of Credit Markets to Beginning of Bailouts with D.C. Insider, David Min –...
David Min is a nationally recognized expert on financial markets regulation, the law and policy of banking, real estate finance, and capital markets. From 2007 through 2009, David was a Washington...
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Atty. Bruce Levitt of Kemp v. Countrywide – A Mandelman Matters Podcast
The more you learn about the Kemp v. Countrywide case, the more you realize how unlikely it is that anything like it will ever happen. This was the case on which the banking industry went to school....
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Alabama Slamma’ – Not for Better, Far Worse… As Foreclosures we Chart.
We seem to be having a national recovery in much of the media, but in the states themselves the numbers are refusing to cooperate. I guess if you can have a “jobless recovery,” then you can probably...
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Obama Asks for Help from Public to Reform Housing Finance System?
First of all, I just want to say that part of me feels as if I’m responding to one of those Internet rumors that says something about “Obama’s Citizenship Case to be Quietly Heard by Supreme Court,” or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obama’s Speech Avoids Using the “N” Word…
(This is the article I wrote the night President Obama gave his first speech on how his administration would handle the financial crisis.) I will admit that President Barack Obama is facing challenges...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bringing Up the Rear: Treasury Secretary Tim “Transparency” Geithner and his...
Yeah, I know… you’re thinking I picked an easy target. Like, maybe I’m getting lazy. Almost like going hunting and shooting a deer wearing bifocals and pushing a walker. Well, not true, my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sen. Whitehouse Questions Expose a Kinder, Gentler and possibly more...
During a Senate Budget Committee meeting, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island went straight at Treasury Secretary Geithner over Treasury’s abysmal track record and unquestionable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Care Bair – FDIC’s Sheila Bair Wants Principal Reductions from Banks With...
First posted in December 2009,… but re-posted at reader’s request. I’ve had a love-hate relationship going with FDIC Chair, Sheila Bair since 2006. In case you don’t remember, Sheila was the Bush...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Optimism Lost, and by Optimism, I mean Ben Bernanke and the NYT
The New York Times ran a story yesterday under the headline: Gloom Grips Consumers, and it May Be Home Prices. And all I could think to say was… “MAY?” It “MAY” be home prices? Like maybe it’s NOT...
View ArticleClik here to view.
HO, HO, HOmeless… A Sobering View of the Crisis Affecting Us All
Originally posted in December of 2009… how tragic is that? Read it and you’ll see why. HO, HO, HOmeless! The Real Story Behind the Crisis We Still Don’t Want to Understand. A 46 year-old single mother...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Loan Modifications Stop Foreclosures, Study Shows. DOER ALERT!
The Center for Responsible Lending (“CRL”), a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that works to stop foreclosure during this housing crisis and protect homeownership and family wealth, in it’s June...
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