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Economy to get worse with debt hitting $12 trillion

in Sox First, on November 18, 2009

...th debt levels now topping $12 trillion . That only adds to pressure on the economy from weak bank lending, poor growth and high levels of unemployment which are expected to keep growing. Not surpri...

New fair value rule to face test

in Sox First, on November 16, 2009

... interest revenue that occurs today before a loss event is identified, and would better reflect the lending decision. Therefore, under the proposals, a provision against credit losses would be built u...

US unemployment to hit 13%

in Sox First, on November 12, 2009

...r the Democrats as the GOP continue to gain ground. The problem, he says, is that the banks aren't lending money so companies can't expand and put on workers. "While we may be getting close to a bott...

Is China about to collapse?

in Sox First, on November 12, 2009

...s poured into infrastructure, manufacturing, and real estate. The problem is that when you increase lending in that way, you overheat the economy by investing the money in shopping malls, luxury store...

Sen. Dodd's New Banking Bill Would Reshape the Financial World

in Bizinformer, on November 11, 2009

...a matter of self-interest on its own part... “Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbe...

Goldman Sachs and God

in Sox First, on November 9, 2009

...ld for the corporate greed that has left the global economy in a mess, that has stopped banks lending money and put so many people out of work....

Endless unemployment and the new pledge of allegiance

in Sox First, on October 21, 2009

...hich means companies won't have enough coming in to start hiring. And in any case, the banks aren't lending so businesses can't expand. That means joblessness will be the new normal. "This Great Rec...

How the ratings agencies sold out investors

in Sox First, on October 19, 2009

...ed at Moody's at the time described a culture of willful ignorance in which executives knew how far lending standards had fallen and that they were giving top ratings to risky products. 'I could see i...

How to Know You Made a Difference

in Business Computer Blog (UK), on October 13, 2009

... One of the online charity projects that has revolutionized the industry is Kiva. Kiva is a micro-lending charity. That means you aren't just giving money to help fill a need, you are financing some...

The Goldman Sachs lie

in Sox First, on October 11, 2009

...educing exposure but also the shuttering of several major subprime credit-card lenders." Banks are lending less and that doesn't sound like they are that healthy or attractive, regardless of what Gol...

A system to let institutions fail

in Sox First, on October 11, 2009

...it quickly with contractual obligations sold to healthy firms, assets sold off, intra-institutional lending, cancelling debt or equity and special protection to certain creditors. Levitt writes: "We ...

Four ways to create jobs in the recession

in Sox First, on October 6, 2009

...all businesses tax credits for creating jobs. And finally, the Small Business Administration's lending programs need to be expanded because the banks aren't lending anymore. Reich says there...

Writedowns reduced but bad loans to increase

in Sox First, on September 30, 2009

...n is now in full swing. Rising unemployment and vacancy rates, falling property prices, and tighter lending conditions, are contributing to distressed sales and delinquencies in the United States. Eur...

The phoney bull market

in Sox First, on September 24, 2009

...t corporations are still shedding workers and slashing payrolls. And the big banks still aren't lending to Main Street." Maybe the so-called bull market will continue for some time, thanks t...

US taxpayer bailout for subprime firms

in Sox First, on August 31, 2009

...he Center for Public Integrity presents a new report showing that firms that created the subprime lending frenzy, including subsiiaries of Countrywide, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, are now get...

A W-shaped recovery

in Sox First, on August 12, 2009

...n. Kellner says: "Lack of jobs will combine with lost wealth, high debts and low savings, less lending, excess capacity in real estate and production, and premature efforts to remove liquidity an...

Mortgage firms get to tell Obama their side of the story

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 27, 2009

Do you trust mortgage firms to carry out Pres. Barack Obama's programs designed to keep people from losing thier homes to foreclosure? How about the government itself? Do you trust it to do anything meaningful to keep people from falling into foreclosure? I know I have my doubts. That's why...

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children 克劳德 1:1 First tsurug

in Wangtam, on 2009-07-23

...eer to peer lending platform • Prximity NYC - Where You Are, What To Do • Palmood :: How Are You ? • goBookmaker - Use goBookmaker's online sportsbook software to become a succesfull sports ...

More real estate culprits still making money off industry

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 21, 2009

...g this, are now trying to sell homes to clients. Is it any wonder so many people view the mortgage-lending and real estate industries as a bit of a cesspool? The Center for Public Integrity cites on...

Some mortgage villains faring quite well

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 20, 2009

...nfortunately, we don't always get justice. And this seems to be especially true in the mortgage-lending business. It's clear that a big reason for the country's current economic mess are ...

Banks misused TARP funds

in Sox First, on July 20, 2009

... their executives, and they will be able to see how these actions are impacting the overall flow of lending and the cost of borrowing." At the time, he said people would be able to see all the d...

The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest

in Sox First, on July 3, 2009

...itizens broke and starving, they begin the entire process over again, riding in to rescue us all by lending us back our own money at interest, selling themselves as men above greed, just a bunch of re...

It's getting tougher to get a mortgage-broker license

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 2, 2009

...s impossible to keep all the bad eggs out of an industry. But back when I was covering the mortgage-lending industry in the mid- to late-1990s, I'd come across lenders who knew nothing about banki...

Gem Designs by Palermo Jewelry

in The Jewelry Weblog, on July 2, 2009

... 14K link chain crosses over the center stone's top and wraps around the ring's gallery, lending the unique piece a romantic medieval sensibility. $600 14K Gold Palermo Gemstone Hidden F...

Is plain vanilla the right goal?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009

... or any of the other fancy stuff that got so many borrowers in trouble during the subprime mortgage-lending crisis — if they choose. But the Washington Post today asks an important question: Wh...

Beware the China bubble

in Sox First, on June 29, 2009

...an asset price bubble in that market. There was 4.57 trillion yuan (or about $US670 billion) of new lending pouring into the market but most of that was on speculative assets, not the real economy. F...

Did Sonia Sotomayor's mortgage views help send county into recession?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 23, 2009

.... The middle-class greed buyers, again, are just one small part of the problem. The entire mortgage-lending industry is to blame, everyone from sleazy mortgage brokers to greedy borrowers to easily pu...

Survival strategies for a deepening recession

in Sox First, on June 23, 2009

...nomy will shrink by nearly 3 per cent this year, a situation created by plunging trade and business lending. And world trade will contract by a gob-smacking 48%, from $707 billion in 2008 to an antici...

Beware of loan-modification scams

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 22, 2009

...The key to avoiding these scams is to do one of two things: First, work directly with your mortgage lending company to forge a solution to your mortgage-payment problems. If you're uncomfortable d...

Mafia cashes in on crisis

in Sox First, on June 19, 2009

...berg reported about the mafia's money laundering and using its hoard of cash for investing and lending money to those who can't get it from the banks. As reported here , Italy's shopkee...

Do you trust the government to protect you from mortgage lenders?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 18, 2009

...ministration is pushing for the creation of a new consumer agency designed to oversee the mortgage-lending process . If you answered "no" to the question? Then you're probably less tha...

How'd the mortgage meltdown happen? NPR knows

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 15, 2009

...an learn everything you ever wanted to know — and then some — about mortgage loans, bad lending practices, subprime mortgages and the reasons why the mortgage industry went so wrong: It...

Subprime and racism

in Sox First, on June 8, 2009

...ts that Well Fargo employees employees referred to blacks as "mud people" and to subprime lending as "ghetto loans". Furthermore, there are claims that the bank targeted black chur...

Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009

...inpoint the villains who really brought on the housing mess, look at the top levels of the mortgage-lending industry. That's where you'll find people like Angelo Mozilo, former head of Co...

Mortgage delinquencies not slowing

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 3, 2009

...;ll still open my paper tomorrow morning. Maybe, just maybe, there'll be a bit of good mortgage-lending news inside it. You never know, right?...

Be honest with your finances before taking on a mortgage

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 2, 2009

Many things have caused the housing slump the country is still working through. But one of the biggest factors? Borrowers weren't honest with themselves before taking on their mortgage loans. A mortgage loan is a huge responsibility. For most people, it's the biggest monthly expense they&...

Cashing in on the disgust with banks

in Sox First, on May 19, 2009

...nancial crisis. To put it bluntly, banks will be losing market share to such forces as peer-to-peer lending, Islamic finance, boutique advisory firms and retailers setting up their own banks. All of t...

Financial crisis winners to hurt banks

in Sox First, on May 16, 2009

...their reputations and damaging relationships. Another big winner comes in the form of peer to peer lending platforms where savers pool money and lend to borrowers. Some good examples are Prosper wh...

More bad news: Housing foreclosure activity remains at record levels

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 14, 2009

You can always count on RealtyTrac for bad news, at least these days. The online provider of foreclosure data didn't disappoint this month, when it released its April foreclosure report . The report showed that housing foreclosure activity remained at record levels during the month. Acc...

Looking to buy? Your mortgage loan might be smaller than ever

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 13, 2009

...day. And qualifying for a mortgage loan today is more difficult, as lenders, stung by the subprime lending crisis, are doing everything they can to avoid passing out mortgage money to borrowers who m...

Downturn easing without recovery

in Sox First, on May 12, 2009

...the Fed's measures and government guarantees mean that banks have access to low-cost funds, and lending rates are high. If nothing nasty happens - losses on mortgages, commercial real estate, busi...

No recovery yet

in Sox First, on May 9, 2009

Is the US economy on its way to recovery or not? Some would point to the results of the bank stress tests as a green shoot with 10 of the 19 largest banks needed to boost their capital by a combined total just shy of $75 billion. Not as much as many expected, prompting officials and industry ex...

HP拟1亿美元新建科罗拉多州数据中心

in Wangtam, on 2009-04-30

...s for Lending • 国美大批关店 苏宁加速扩张 • Microsoft debuts Vine in Seattle: Twitter+Facebook on steroids • MLB Nearing $1 Million In iPhone Revenue • Clive Thompson on Puzzles and the Hive Mind • Glas...

The story of the Kiva from its founder

in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 22, 2009

... Jessica Jackley Flannery, an MBA graduate who founded Kiva, the micro lending website has written the story of she came up with the idea of her company in Stanford Social Innovation Review (It...

Ideas for social entrepreneurship in crisis times

in Audeamus - How dare we..., on March 22, 2009

...y's environment. You can also feel free to add yours in the comment section: 1) Peer to Peer lending businesses: Africa has low cash now; there are several reasons behind this: There are less ...

Should Businesses Take on Debt Now?

in Biz Plan Hacks, on March 22, 2009

...g a recession. The piece in timely because the Obama Administration recently unveiled plans to spur lending to small businesses. Karen E. Klein talks in the article to Sanford Ehrlich, executive dir...

Obama Set to Help Small Business

in Biz Plan Hacks, on March 17, 2009

...ke it easier for small business owners to borrow money, using $730 million in stimulus funds to cut lending fees, boost loan guarantees and expand other programs, officials said. "We know that s...

James Galbraith: Obama not solving the financial crisis

in Sox First, on February 28, 2009

...stimony here and elsewhere: they will not return to ordinary commercial, industrial and residential lending until they can see a reasonable way to make money at it... More likely, they will hunker dow...

Auto catastrophe

in Sox First, on February 28, 2009

... No doubt, the US Government will continue bailing out the auto industry. But until the banks start lending again, the car makers will continue to bleed badly. And cost US taxpayers billions....

The vagueness of Obama

in Sox First, on February 27, 2009

... CFO.com reports , it was just too vague on important issues like how the banks are going to start lending again and what's needed to make them do it. And there are still questions over whether b...

The Bernanke-Obama dance

in Sox First, on February 25, 2009

...cover in 2010. That, of course, is assuming that the White House's latest bail-out will unblock lending to households and businesses. in a nice two-step routine, Barack Obama has come out saying...

Citigroup - first National Bank?

in Sox First, on February 24, 2009

...nancial rescue. That test would assess whether they would have enough capital necessary to continue lending and to absorb more losses. So what to make of this? It's not clear whether this has bee...

Geithner's vague debut

in Sox First, on February 11, 2009

...detail on the price for bad assets and how much capital needs to be injected into banks to get them lending again. Instead, the administration is giving the world the impression that it's flounder...

Bank bailout failure

in Sox First, on February 3, 2009

...doors before the year is out. Then there is the latest Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices showing that two out of three banks have tightened lending standards and demand f...

Citigroup greed

in Sox First, on February 2, 2009

...riticism all around, including questions raised by President Obama. The it got into trouble over lending its name to a new stadium for the New York Mets baseball team. And now, we have reports t...

Microsoft launches supply chain center of excellence with Infosys

in Supplychainer, on February 1, 2009

... Center is the first initiative from the two companies following the inking of an alliance aimed at lending a helping hand to manufacturers when it comes down to the complex management process associa...

The meltdown's rogue gallery

in Sox First, on January 26, 2009

...he housing bubble to develop as a result of his low interest rates, who failed to regulate mortgage lending, who defended the derivatives business which mushroomed under his regime and who backed sub-...

What's ahead for US financial institutions?

in Sox First, on January 7, 2009

...ebuilding infrastructure, reinventing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to keep firms alive by lending them money to roll out their operations and fund their growth and raising the basic Social S...

Economic forecasts - dark days ahead

in Sox First, on December 22, 2008

...he worst since the Great Depression of 1929. "The lack of confidence is total. The inter-bank (lending) market is not functioning and this is generating vicious cycles: consumers are not consumin...

younoodle - or what is your startup worth?

in TJ's Weblog, on December 18, 2008

...Its approach is certainly interesting - credit score algorithms have helped to create a much bigger lending market in the US that reduces complexity and risk (at least as long as you make many loans)....

Bernanke the banker

in Sox First, on December 17, 2008

...and the banks want to hoard it. When things start returning to normal, the banks will want to start lending it out. If that much money is left in the monetary base, it would be extremely inflationary,...

Why did the housing meltdown happen in the US?

in Sox First, on December 8, 2008

...g riskier loans. And finally, there was the unique role of securitisation which encouraged subprime lending. The big question for the US now is whether the egg can be unscrambled. Given that this is ...

Why the bailout won't save automakers

in Sox First, on December 3, 2008

...board member Jerome York has told Bloomberg that they will need lots more. He says just their lending arms will need another $100 billion. As columnist Jack Kelly writes, it's not going to...

The Subprime Solution - Robert Shiller

in Sox First, on December 1, 2008

... experience several years of a bad economy, as occurred, for example, after the profligate mortgage lending booms in both Sweden and Mexico in the early 1990s. There could be another 'lost decade&...

Merkel's attack

in Sox First, on November 27, 2008

...or causing the economic crisis by flooding the system with cheap money and then the banks for not lending money. But you would have to wonder about Merkel's inflexibility, particularly her refu...

Nicky Butler Jewelry

in The Jewelry Weblog, on November 21, 2008

...st oval rose quartz stone (approx. 10x14mm) sparkles from a bezel setting at the ring's center, lending a sweet pink hue to the ring. $80 The heirloom-like jewelry Nicky Butler is known for stems...

AIG's bigger bailout

in Sox First, on November 10, 2008

...rotection. A second vehicle would be set up to solve the liquidity problems in AIG's securities-lending business. The business involves lending out securities to short sellers or others and invest...

Deutsche Bank's accounting shell games

in Sox First, on November 5, 2008

... rose in value, showing the banks to be strongly capitalized. The message: the banks are capable of lending even more. But when the US subprime loan market collapsed, resulting in the credit crunch, t...

Prosper.com: No New Loans

in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 16, 2008

...e's been a lot of hype about a newish Web site called Prosper.com that facilitates peer-to-peer lending. In short, you can go to the site and either try to secure a loan from other people that vis...

Discounted holidays for redundant bankers

in Wandalust, on October 14, 2008

...your area? The fact is that we'll all probably end up poorer as a result of the irresponsible lending by banks and the tax payers money being poured in to bail out the banks. ...