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Sarbanes Oxley on trial

in Sox First, on December 4, 2009

...investor protection. But despite these costs, the law did nothing to warn about the meltdown of mortgage-backed securities, much less expose Bernie Madoff or other fraudsters." On the other hand, the...

Goldman Sachs loading up on guns

in Sox First, on December 2, 2009

...as if the financial crisis never happened. After paying back billions of dollars in taxpayer funded bailout money, it paid annual bonuses that rivaled the record payouts it made in 2007, at the height...

2009 年最热英文单词

in Wangtam, on 2009-12-01

... Cartel — In Mexico, at the center of the battle over drug trafficking ...

Bankruptcies soar with no recovery in sight

in Sox First, on November 27, 2009

... this sort of data 25 years ago. Despite the banks receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer funded bailout money, they are not willing to repay the favor. But then, the banks aren't lending because t...

One in seven US home loans at risk of foreclosures

in Sox First, on November 20, 2009

What chances of a US recovery? Don't hold your breath. As reported here , foreclosures will keep rising through 2010 and one in seven US home loans is now past due or in foreclosure. The quarterly delinquency measure is at its highest level since 1972. br />All up, just over 14% of US home l...

Taxpayers lose out on bank bailout

in Sox First, on November 13, 2009

...ctor general for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), otherwise known as the bank bailout or banking welfare program, has conceded that the program will result in a loss to taxpa...

Seen that? - Big Sur Bonanza #2

in The Outdoor Weblog, on November 9, 2009

Big Sur Bonanza #2 at The Outdoor Weblog I was feeling my oats a little bit that fateful morning. A recent string of sessions at OB had me pumped and overly confident. When we walked down to the bluffs to check it, we knew it was going to be big b...

FFXIII Anagram Solved: Announcement Nov Thirteenth

in Wangtam, on 2009-11-08

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Schon gesehen? - Zur Konjunktur: Die Abkühlungszeichen verdichten sich, Immobilienmarkt

in Das Börsen Weblog, on 07.11.09

...rtikel: Immobilienflaute trifft einige Bundesstaaten heftig. So kommen am Mittwoch: Mortgage Application Survey, Existing Home Sales und am Donnerstag die New Home Sales (für Juli). Darüberhinaus die...

Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash

in Sox First, on November 5, 2009

...dman Sachs actions by accusing the bank of selling securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages while at the same time placing bets that the US housing market would crash. As Boston Univ... ...been named managing executive of the SEC's enforcement division and then of course, there was the bailout of the banks engineered by former Goldman Sachs manager Henry Paulson. The richest people in...

Commercial real estate: an accounting shell game

in Sox First, on November 1, 2009

...was warning the commercial real estate market in the United States looked likely to trigger a new mortgage crisis with a soaring delinquency rate and building owners struggling to finance the massiv...

Seen that? - BIG SUR BONANZA #3

in The Outdoor Weblog, on October 31, 2009

BIG SUR BONANZA #3 at The Outdoor Weblog As far as I could see out to the horizon there were lined-up set waves. All those six to eight foot mush-burgers crumblers that were pushing us closer to the rocks were nothing but lull tasters. The real me...

Schon gesehen? - Die wichtigsten Wirtschaftsdaten für heute

in Das Börsen Weblog, on 28.10.09

...mmobilienflaute trifft einige Bundesstaaten heftig. So kommen am Mittwoch: Mortgage Application Survey, Existing Home Sales und am Donnerstag die New Home Sales (für Juli). Darüberhinaus die Schätzun...

Breaking up the banks

in Sox First, on October 28, 2009

...need to do." He was joined by Bank of England governor Mervyn King who said the government bailout of banks had "created possibly the biggest moral hazard in history". Expecting taxpayers to provid...

Bailed out banks continue to live it up

in Sox First, on October 21, 2009

... Like pigs at a trough, the US banks were wallowing in US government bailout but at the same time, they were handing out perks to their executives that had taken them to the brink of disaster. W...

Deciding What You Can Afford in a House

in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 13, 2009

...ut last time) assumes that with 20% down, you'll need 25% of monthly household income to cover your mortgage, real estate taxes, and insurance—the banks start out by being slightly more generous. Most...

Mortgages: 30-year or 15-year?

in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 11, 2009

...copy; sfadden Get Rich Slowly ran a piece late last month that compared 15-year and 30-year mortgages. The fairly lengthy blog post is based on the personal experience of one of GRS's staf...

The Goldman Sachs lie

in Sox First, on October 11, 2009

...in told The Wall Street Journal that the investment house received no special treatment in the bailout, despite the presence of so many Goldmanites in the top echelons of the US Government. In ...

Four ways to create jobs in the recession

in Sox First, on October 6, 2009

... out 4 steps to creating jobs in the recession. The first is to use the stimulus packages and TARP bailout funds to switch from banks to public services that people need. Like, for example, schools, ...

Should ratings agencies go the way of Arthur Andersen?

in Sox First, on October 3, 2009

... for the investment public. Why haven't the rating agencies that were complicit in the subprime-mortgage securities scandal suffered the fate of Arthur Andersen? Despite some moves in Congress to ...

Luxury hotels the latest victims of the recession

in Sox First, on September 25, 2009

.... As the Atlantic Monthly's Daniel Indiviglio points out, this could devastate the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market and that will damage the US economy even further. There is...

魔鬼辞典之金融危机

in Wangtam, on 2009-09-23

...R),动词。不再承担所有先前的合同义务。在杜鲁门接管美国钢铁厂后成为专业用语。可参考1952年版陈旧刊物《钢铁与钢铁工人》中"你能锤炼的新闻"一节:"我们被克莱斯勒了!" 信用违约掉期 (CREDIT-DEFAULT SWAP)、名词,出自拉丁语"有蜜必有蜂"的松散译法。1. 一种对现代经济功能至关重要的复杂金融工具,可用于分散风险。...

Obama flags bailout for newspapers

in Sox First, on September 21, 2009

President Obama has flagged his concerns about the direction of news and has dropped a big hint that the US Government could help prop up the declining newspaper industry. But will it do any good? In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade, Obama said fact based reporting...

Elderly turn to bank robbery in recession

in Sox First, on September 20, 2009

...s impact with reports about how Michael Casey Wilson, 69, was forced to rob a bank to pay his 17% mortgage. Up until now, Wilson has had a clean record. This follows on from a Washington Post repor...

Nothing learned from Lehman collapse

in Sox First, on September 14, 2009

... commodities and exotic financial products. Jacobs writes: "They're still packaging risky mortgages into securities and selling them to investors, who can earn higher returns by purchasing t...

Banker lived it up on foreclosure

in Sox First, on September 12, 2009

... Hats off to the Los Angeles Times for bringing us the story that while the mortgage crisis has resulted in people losing their homes and banks closing down, there is one executive at Wells Farg...

The next bubbles

in Sox First, on September 12, 2009

...bout 10 bubbles in the making: China; gold; renewable energy; the Fed snapping up $1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities; the prices of junk financial stocks like Fannie, Freddie, AIG, Citi and ...

New Final Fantasy XIII Shonen Jump Scan

in Wangtam, on 2009-09-04

...ases.net • Sell Handmade Crafts • Server Makers Go Retro as Sales Plummet • Happy 10th birthday, Blogger ...

US taxpayer bailout for subprime firms

in Sox First, on August 31, 2009

...ram (HAMP) which was created in February by the Obama administration to coax lenders into modifying mortgages that might otherwise result in foreclosure. And unlike the bank bailouts, taxpayers won&#... ...x lenders into modifying mortgages that might otherwise result in foreclosure. And unlike the bank bailouts, taxpayers won't get any return. At least not directly. And as the Center points out, ...

Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis

in Sox First, on August 31, 2009

...ding owners are struggling to refinance loans. As the WSJ says, the problems hitting the commercial mortgage backed securities sector will damage what's left of the banks. WSJ reporters Lingling ...

Free Software Foundation trashes Windows 7

in Wangtam, on 2009-08-29

...s? • Wikitude.me - Geo-tag the World • Zoho Creator Partner Program • OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 Final for Windows • OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 Final for Linux • OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 Final for Mac OS •...

Up to 1000 more bank failures

in Sox First, on August 28, 2009

...ruggling to stay afloat. "While the early losses were related to residential loans and complex mortgage-related assets ... where the crisis really began ... we're now seeing problems with mor...

Banks bankrolling Congress

in Sox First, on August 27, 2009

.... According to the report, lobbyists and lobbying firms representing the biggest recipients of the bailout money, courtesy of the US taxpayer, scheduled at least 70 fundraisers for members of Congres...

No relief from foreclosure mess

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 24, 2009

... worse. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, one in every eight U.S. households with mortgages was either in foreclosure or behind on its mortgage payments in the second quarter of thi...

Cocaine dollars

in Sox First, on August 18, 2009

... maybe. Let's just see if that's reflected in the unemployment, bankruptcy, foreclosure and mortgage delinquency figures. And before you rush off to sniff a bill, the Big Bear Observation Po...

Hog farmer horrors

in Sox First, on August 17, 2009

... pork industry has joined the line of sectors with snouts in the trough, asking for a US government bailout. As Forbes reports, it's asking the US government to spend $50 million buying up exces...

Is renting the new American Dream?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 15, 2009

...ry about the fear and anxiety that a home can cause when its owners are struggling to make their mortgage payments. The threat of foreclosure is a terrifying one. It's certainly no American drea...

Foreclosures dogging the middle class

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 14, 2009

...boom? We liked to say it was because of all those greedy homeowners who took out high-risk subprime mortgages to get into homes they couldn't really afford. Well, today's foreclosure victim i...

Loan clinic the cure for mortgage ailments?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 13, 2009

...Pres. 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, hav...

Mortgage rates on the rise, again

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 12, 2009

...There was one positive of the housing slump: Mortgage interest rates kept going down. Now that the housing market is in the early stages of a fragile recovery, mortgage interest rates are no longer f...

Family to lose home because of seven cents

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 11, 2009

...Pres. Barack Obama wants mortgage companies to do everything in their power to prevent families from losing their homes to foreclosure. You can bet he's not thrilled with a story that ran earlier ...

Odds are good you'll be "underwater" by 2011

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 10, 2009

...ll be "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,...

US mortgages underwater

in Sox First, on August 7, 2009

...on for some time, even if it's unofficial. Bloomberg reports that 48% of US homeowners with a mortgage are likely to owe more than their properties are worth before the housing recession end. In...

Fate stay night /命运之夜 最强的从者 SABER 制服版手办

in Wangtam, on 2009-08-07

... • TomTom iPhone pricing leaked • The Summarizer • Windows 7: The Best Features and Tips • Windows 7 Review: You Can Quit Complaining Now • Mashable's Twitter Guide Book Now Available fo...

More good news for the housing industry

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 7, 2009

...ed to the housing market. Simply put, if people are buying and selling homes — and taking out mortgage loans while doing it — the country's economy seems to hum along. When people are ...

What to do when those mortgage payments get hard to make

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 6, 2009

...injury. You might even be struggling through a messy divorce. All of these can cause you to miss a mortgage payment. Or more. You wouldn't be alone. A growing number of homeowners today are str...

Loan modifications not fast enough for foreclosures

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 5, 2009

...TruthAbout... Pres. Barack Obama's foreclosure-prevention program has seen some successes: Mortgage companies have offered to modify more than 406,000 existing mortgage loans, hopefully to kee...

Mortgage companies falling down on loan-modification help

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 4, 2009

Mortgage lenders have received their share of grief for the 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 mortgage companies are under new criticis...

Want a good retirement? Pay off that mortgage loan first

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 3, 2009

...ls? Will you have enough to meet any unexpected money challenges that pop up? Then there's the mortgage question. According to a story by the Boston College Center for Retirement Research, a grow...

Is the housing greed a thing of the past?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 31, 2009

...There are a lot of reasons for the big housing crash that the country is still fighting through. Mortgage lenders loaned out money to customers who weren't financially able to handle a large month...

Is the housing bust over?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 30, 2009

...my income is tied into the housing industry because I write for several publications that cover the mortgage and real estate businesses. I'm thrilled to see things finally start to improve. Perso...

Goldman Sachs in the gun

in Sox First, on July 30, 2009

...us on whether internal communications, such as email, show bankers had private doubts about whether mortgage-related securities they were putting together were as financially sound as their public pro...

Putting the presidential squeeze on the mortgage firms

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 29, 2009

... wants. And what he wants now — besides the passage of health-insurance reform — is for mortgage service companies to do everything they can to keep homeowners from losing their houses to ...

Loan-modification program not meeting its goals

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 28, 2009

...p with a 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 ...

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 anythi...

The bailouts stink: Bernanke

in Sox First, on July 27, 2009

... The US Government bailout of banks left a lot to be desired. In the final analysis, the US Government rewarded excessive and dangerous risk taking by bailing out banks that deserved to be put out ...

Making mortgages easier to understand

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 24, 2009

Mortgage lenders have taken a lot of the blame for the 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 fully understand. This led to higher foreclosur...

More data that show an upswing in housing market

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 23, 2009

You can practically hear the real estate agents screaming for joy. Yes, there is yet more evidence today that the housing market is in the midst of a recovery. Yes, it's early in the process. And, yes, again, it's still a fragile recovery. But it is a recovery, and that means that real ...

Is buying nearly as affordable as renting? Don't believe the hype

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 22, 2009

...owning a house made more financial sense than did renting. Inevitably, they'd say that with low mortgage interest rates, the monthly payment for a house wasn't much higher than a typical month...

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

... life. Unfortunately, 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 ...

Banks misused TARP funds

in Sox First, on July 20, 2009

... Anyone who thinks the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout money for the banks is being used by banks to write loans, should check out this Washington Post report . Taxpayers money is bei...

Home construction starts rise. Another sign of a recovery?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 17, 2009

Is the long housing slump nearing an end? I suppose that depends on whom you ask. But there are a growing number of signs that, while things definitely still are not rosy in the housing industry, we may have reached the bottom of the market. Hitting bottom is good; Once a market has done that, ...

Is the arrow still pointing down for the housing industry?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 15, 2009

...w if I can take 18 more months of fretting about rising foreclosures, homes that won't sell and mortgage delinquencies. It's all too darn depressing. The Reuters story, which cited a report b...

Downpayments still keeping homebuyers away

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 13, 2009

...39;t require any downpayment at all. This made life easier for borrowers, but helped push a slew of mortgage lenders into bankruptcy once the housing crash hit. Today, lenders are more careful. Many ...

Larry Summers: the worst is yet to come

in Sox First, on July 13, 2009

...ers still says the right measures are being taken and that, in time, will lift confidence and lower mortgage rates. He told the FT that he wants the US to emerge out of this 'more export-oriented&...

Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 10, 2009

I happily voted for Barack Obama last year. I was thrilled to see George Bush and his cronies swept away. But I had no illusions: I knew that fixing the country's problems, especially its struggling economy, would require a long, hard slog. I knew, too, that things weren't magically g...

Why it matters if your neighbor's struggling to pay the mortgage

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 9, 2009

... You might not want the federal government to bail out your neighbors who took out bad mortgage loans and now can't pay their monthly bills on time. Most of them were greedy, you might say. ...

Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009

...If you own a home in Los Angeles, watch out for the scammers. Your city leads the nation in mortgage fraud , according to the FBI's annual mortgage fraud review. The FBI's Los Angeles field ...

Beware loan-modification scams

in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 7, 2009

...ils the plight of a Hesperia, Calif., homeowner who thought she was working with officials from her mortgage lender to modify her mortgage loan. The homeowner paid more than$5,000 that she thought was...