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Dubai's Technosphere Concept Would Fit Right Into a Disney Park
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-02
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• 27-inch iMacs reported to have Flash playback issues
• Google's fade-in homepage confuses
• How Google Voice Is Growing
• Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com
• Twitter Tri...
Commercial real estate: an accounting shell game
in Sox First, on November 1, 2009
...rtgage crisis with a soaring delinquency rate and building owners struggling to finance the massive loans they took out when the market was booming. What's even more alarming now is the directive ...
Seen that? - Why the SBA may not be the best bet for entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on October 23, 2009
...e Fortune Small Business Magazine, senior editor Richard McGill Murphy argues that the agency's loan programs reach less that 1 percent [...] Read More Balance especially important f...
Seen that? - Saskatchewan Business Tax Revamp Improves Outlook
in Small Business Unplugged, on October 21, 2009
... just over 25% in Alberta and [...] Read More How the Canada Small Business Financing Loan Program Can Help You Start or Grow Your Business at Small Business Unplugged ...
Seen that? - Case studies in Micro Finance #1
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 21, 2009
...ed to wonder how defined those words 'microfinance' and 'microcredit' and 'microloans' are. How different are these words? Are they all just saying the same thing, just in a di...
The Goldman Sachs lie
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...problem finding credit. Small businesses, on the other hand, have never had a harder time getting a loan ... I believe that we are only in the early stages of the second half of this credit cycle. I e...
Luxury hotels the latest victims of the recession
in Sox First, on September 25, 2009
...be in danger of default as once loyal customers cancel or stay away. Examples include a $90 million loan secured by the Four Seasons San Francisco. That's 90 days delinquent and foreclosure procee...
魔鬼辞典之金融危机
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-23
...大理论纷纷出台时的社会状态。这些理论常冠以宏大的名字，如《经济大萧条》(The Great Contraction)、《适度的终结》(The End to Moderation)和《泡沫时代》(The Bubble Era)，而它们实际上还是解释不了我们为什么处在这样一个无底洞中。
反馈循环 (FEEDBACK LOOP)，名词。一件事情的意义因为不断重复而放大的过程。出处：CNBC电视频道。...
Loan deals Italian style
in Sox First, on August 24, 2009
...pped Italian food producers plan to put up expensive wines and dry-cured hams as collateral on bank loans. Italian banks already store massive wheels of parmesan cheese as collateral so why not do the...
More Ways to Save Money While in School
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 15, 2009
...a distance learning situation. It will take a little more self-discipline.
Consider Your School Loans Wisely
I mentioned yesterday that you should get all the scholarships you can. If you still d...
Foreclosures dogging the middle class
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 14, 2009
...s that the couple is struggling mightily to pay their mortgage on time. They're hoping to get a loan modification from their mortgage lender. But so far — like many other struggling homeowne...
Loan clinic the cure for mortgage ailments?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 13, 2009
...res. Barack Obama has put an increasing amount of pressure on mortgage companies to restructure the loans of homeowners who are struggling to make their monthly payments. Many homeowners, though, have...
Mortgage rates on the rise, again
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 12, 2009
... that average stood at 5.26 percent.
This week, the average rate for a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage loan across the country hit 4.69 percent, up from 4.62 percent one week earlier.
If you're thin...
Family to lose home because of seven cents
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 11, 2009
...acing mortgage lenders, and with the current presidential administration working so hard to promote loan modifications designed to keep families from losing their homes, that Bank of America, the mort...
Odds are good you'll be "underwater" by 2011
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 10, 2009
...ot;underwater" by 2011.
No homeowner wants this. It's when you owe more on your mortgage loan than what your home is worth. According to a news story in the Victorville Daily Press, nearly ...
US mortgages underwater
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...rts that the US Government is considering plans to take hundreds of billions of dollars in troubled loans out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, stick them into a so-called "bad bank" and create...
What to do when those mortgage payments get hard to make
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 6, 2009
...rtgage payments? What if you've already fallen behind?
Your best bet is to call your mortgage loan officer. Immediately.
Your mortgage company doesn't want you to lose your house. It certai...
Loan modifications not fast enough for foreclosures
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 5, 2009
...seen some successes: Mortgage companies have offered to modify more than 406,000 existing mortgage loans, hopefully to keep homeowners from losing their residences to foreclosure. The program seems to...
Mortgage companies falling down on loan-modification help
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 4, 2009
...country's housing and financial crises. Many blame the companies for passing out risky mortgage loans to borrowers who never should have qualified for mortgage financing in the first place.
Now m...
Want a good retirement? Pay off that mortgage loan first
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 3, 2009
...households, of course, choose to invest their extra money rather than use it to pay down a mortgage loan. Financial experts say this is a mistake. It's far better to relieve yourself of extra debt...
Putting the presidential squeeze on the mortgage firms
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 29, 2009
... his team wanted to put some pressure on mortgage-servicing firms to do more to rework the mortgage loans that homeowners are struggling to pay. More loan modifications equals fewer foreclosures, in t...
Loan-modification program not meeting its goals
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 28, 2009
...program to reduce the number of home foreclosures across the country by modifying existing mortgage loans. Problem is, the program hasn't had the impact that administration officials had hoped for...
Mortgage firms get to tell Obama their side of the story
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 27, 2009
...ming under intense criticism for not doing enough to help homeowners rework their existing mortgage loans into ones they can actually afford to pay.
Scan most newspapers' archives, and you'll...
Making mortgages easier to understand
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 24, 2009
...he collapse of the housing market. They approved borrowers who couldn't pay back their mortgage loans. They pushed other homebuyers to take out risky mortgage loans that these borrowers didn't...
Buffett cleans up on Goldman Sachs
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
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US taxpayers did well when Goldman Sachs repaid US Treasury's TARP loan of $10 billion. According to Bloomberg , they made a return of 23% which is not too bad at all in any market, let alone...
More real estate culprits still making money off industry
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 21, 2009
...Yesterday, I wrote about a shady mortgage loan officer who is now working for a loan-modification company. This individual, who helped talk his clients into risky loan products that often landed them ...
Some mortgage villains faring quite well
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 20, 2009
...res taking place across the nation. And why are so many people unable to pay their monthly mortgage loans? It's because so many mortgage loan officers — paid, by the way, to watch out for th...
Paulson, Goldman Sachs and the four tiers of US Government
in Sox First, on July 18, 2009
...ncial disaster a few years down the road. The next crisis could look something like the savings-and-loan mess of the 1980s, in which deregulated banks gambled with, or in some cases stole, taxpayers&#...
Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
...uity.
Another popular scheme involves groups using straw buyers to default purposely on a mortgage loan. The group then buys the property at a deep discount from a mortgage lender through a short sal...
Beware loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009
...try this one published yesterday by the Los Angeles Times. It details the devastating effects that loan-modification scammers can have on their victims.
The Times' story details the plight of a ...
Taking out a mortgage loan without going mad
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 6, 2009
...There's one secret to taking out a mortgage loan without losing your mind: Don't obsess over those mortgage interest rates.
Unfortunately, this is the one piece of advice very few borrowers l...
Neverland's future: up for grabs
in Sox First, on July 4, 2009
...towards bankruptcy. He was believed to be paying 20% debt interest on approximately $270 million in loans or roughly $54 million per year and with insufficient income, he was sinking deeper into debt....
It's getting tougher to get a mortgage-broker license
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 2, 2009
...ll far below where they stood just one year ago. Getting clients today isn't nearly as easy for loan officers. During the housing boom years, they could wait for their phones to ring with new busi...
Are you ready for a mortgage loan?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 1, 2009
...ot;yes" to any of these questions, you might not be ready to own a home. Taking out a mortgage loan is a big financial responsibility. You have to make these payments on time. At the same time, y...
Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
...gage lenders would have to offer customers what Obama is calling "plain vanilla" mortgage loan products alongside more complex mortgage options.
The goal here is to make sure that consumers...
Would you walk away from your mortgage loan?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 29, 2009
If your home lost half of its value — not too unbelievable of an occurrence in today's housing market — would you be willing to simply walk away from your mortgage? Would you have any qualms about not making that monthly payment and simply leaving your house behind?
Surprisingly, a ...
Michael Jackson's debt legacy
in Sox First, on June 27, 2009
...Journal tells us, he left this world with $500 million in debt after defaulting on a $24.5 million loan backed by Neverland. A big chunk of this debt was a $200 million loan secured against his bigge...
Don't believe the homeownership hype
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 24, 2009
...imple reason for this: Homes aren't as good of an investment as real estate agents and mortgage loan officers make them out to be.
Yes, homes historically have risen in value. There's no deny...
Can Wind Power Make a Profit?
in IfEnergy, on June 23, 2009
...ng that the juice would be worth $30,000 a year. It's hard to cover the interest on a $500,000 loan with a $30,000 annual payback. It's not an unusual example.
One solution no one likes to t...
Beware of loan-modification scams
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 22, 2009
... of housing foreclosures across the nation continue to rise, something else is on the upswing, too: loan-modification scams.
The scammers target homeowners who have fallen behind in their mortgage pa...
A new wave of mortgage foreclosures on the way?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 19, 2009
...omeowners who during the housing boom took out option adjustable rate mortgages . In these type of loans, borrowers can decide to pay less than what their monthly balance is. The difference is simply...
Do you trust the government to protect you from mortgage lenders?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 18, 2009
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Do you have faith that the government can protect you and other borrowers from bad mortgage loans pushed by shady mortgage lenders? If you answered "yes" to this question, you'll be...
Does owning a home have to be the American Dream?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 17, 2009
... and bought homes that were too expensive for them. Mortgage lenders were lazy, and passed out home loans to people who clearly couldn't pay them back. Real estate agents didn't do enough to d...
The slow recovery
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
...e, Reuters reports analysts saying that Bank of America Corp is experiencing "horrific" loan losses and may set aside $46 billion in loan loss provisions this year. There might be a recov...
How'd the mortgage meltdown happen? NPR knows
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 15, 2009
...where you can 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 w...
Want a better credit score? Manage your money
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 12, 2009
...r most, though, the credit score is the key to determining whether they will qualify for a mortgage loan.
Lenders want to see a high credit score — a numerical figure that encapsulates borrower...
Is it time to refinance your mortgage?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 10, 2009
... resulted in lower mortgage interest rates. That means it's a good time to refinance a mortgage loan.
Of course, even with low interest rates, refinancing doesn't make sense for everyone. CNN...
Are reverse mortgages the next trouble spot?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 9, 2009
...s for more than a decade now.
I can see why others, though, might listen intently to what mortgage loan officers tell them. Say you're a first-time home buyer. You're undoubtedly thrilled and...
Wells Fargo accused of pushing bad loans on African-Americans
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
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Whenever I tell people that borrowers shouldn't always be blamed for the bad mortgage loans that they take out, I get sneers. These borrowers should have done their homework before taking out...
What next for GM?
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
...65 billion in taxpayers' money is all part of the subterfuge. Instead of being handed over as a loan, it's money converted into an illiquid 60% stake in the car maker. And this is where the pr...
Mortgage delinquencies not slowing
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 3, 2009
...ng payments or struggling to make them. Your lender is much more likely to want to restructure your loan terms than watch you slowly lose your grip on your home. Remember, losing your home doesn't...
Be honest with your finances before taking on a mortgage
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 2, 2009
...f 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 expe...
Even Hollywood hates mortgage loan officers these days
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 1, 2009
...i, received mixed reviews last week. But it certainly can't be the critical darling of mortgage loan officers.
That's because the star of the film, the person being dragged to Hell, is a mort...
A Week With the 2010 Subaru Impreza 5-door Proves Hatchback Superiority
in carzz.org, on May 28, 2009
...mm" effect) which can improve both economy and performance.
Thanks to Subaru Canada for the loan of this vehicle, which included an extra-cost Sports Package. Our American friends can learn m...
Mortgage interest rates went up. Don't panic!
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 28, 2009
...interest rates rose this week. According to Bankrate.com , the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan carried an interest rate of 5.45 percent. That's up from 5.24 percent a week ago.
Rates ro...
Is your credit score falling?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 27, 2009
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There's one number that means more than all the rest when you're applying for a mortgage loan: your credit score.
Also known as your FICO score, this number condenses your history of payin...
Loan modifications not always helping homeowners
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 26, 2009
...esn't appear to be working.
A recent story in the Wall Street Journal, looks at the success of loan modifications. These are an important part of the federal government's efforts to halt fore...
You can lower your mortgage interest rate -- BEFORE you take out that loan
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 26, 2009
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The average mortgage interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan last week was still below 5 percent. Historically, that's an amazing rate.
That doesn't mean, though, that there...
How low will interest rates go? Who knows?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 22, 2009
...Applying for a mortgage loan — whether it's a new loan or a refinance — sometimes feels like a big gamble.
Interest rates on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan may stand at 5.1 perc...
The refi money is still flowing
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 21, 2009
...at have resulted in lower mortgage interest rates.
This means that buyers who qualify for mortgage loans at an interest rate at or slightly below 5 percent — not unusual these days for a 30-yea...
How bad is the housing market? That depends
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 19, 2009
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So you're looking to buy a home. You're interested in a mortgage loan. But you're wondering: You've heard some good news recently regarding the U.S. housing market. Has a recovery...
Will federal mortgage loan assistance hurt your credit rating?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 18, 2009
...ew Making Home Affordable program — which lets homeowners refinance their existing mortgage loans or modify them to make their payments more affordable — might be a blessing.
The feder...
Times' reporter's story a reminder: It's easy to fall into foreclosure nightmare
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 15, 2009
...y tell me that they're frustrated that homeowners who were simply greedy, and took out mortgage loans with artificially low initial interest rates, are now placing a burden on the rest of us taxpa...
More bad news: Housing foreclosure activity remains at record levels
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 14, 2009
...'t happen.
Often, lenders will work with homeowners to renegotiate the terms of their mortgage loans to make sure that these owners can keep their homes.
I know it's embarrassing, and fright...
Looking to buy? Your mortgage loan might be smaller than ever
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 13, 2009
...h; than it's been in years. And this means that many buyers will be taking out smaller mortgage loans in order to purchase these homes.
Bloomberg reported that the nation's median housing pr...
Navigating the new mortgage roadmap
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 12, 2009
...I applied for my most recent mortgage loan back in 2006. You might remember that this was right before the housing boom ended and the housing crash began. Bad timing on my part. Today, my home is wort...
No recovery yet
in Sox First, on May 9, 2009
...off. Add to that the reports that US consumer credit fell by a record $11.1 billion in March and loan delinquencies continue to rise , although they're starting to level off. As a result, bank...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
... a growing disrespect for law and civil society. The 1991 recession was preceded by the savings and loan (S&L) crisis, the 2001 recession by Enron and the latest by the totally amoral selling of s...
