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Britian Using Genetic Tests on Asylum Seekers
in Global Mobility Report, on November 12, 2009
...ovoking outrage from rights groups. The British government says that the genetic tests have shown a fraud rate of 87% in cases where asylum seekers claim to be related to each other. In the US, langua...
Galleon scandal: just the beginning?
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...ffington Post that maybe insider trading shouldn't even be illegal, claiming that it would expose fraud earlier, it would put more information out in the market and that companies will become more t...
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... ...ld crash. As Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff told Gordon, it smells like a fraud and should be prosecuted. "The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested 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...
Swine flu fraud
in Sox First, on October 29, 2009
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It was just a matter of time. The US Food and Drug Administration has published a list of fraudulent swine flu products purporting to clean up the disease now popping up on websites. Read th...
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...
Do the Pitfalls of Outsourcing Outweigh the Benefits?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 19, 2009
... at best.
Truth be told, in-house processes that go unwatched and unmanaged are often sources of fraud. However, management usually does watch (at least at some level), reducing the risks posed by...
Hedge funds lied to investors
in Sox First, on October 15, 2009
...n you read this, you can then understand how people like Bernard Madoff could get away with their fraud for so many years with his hedge fund. Which raises the obvious question: how many more Madoffs ...
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...
Seen that? - Email Sucks
in I got Spam?!, on October 11, 2009
Email Sucks at I got Spam?! I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM emai...
Mortgages: 30-year or 15-year?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 11, 2009
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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...
Bribery charges turn personal
in Sox First, on October 9, 2009
...udi Arabia, Europe and Africa. Or will the Justice Department put pressure on Britain's Serious Fraud Office to do the same and target the individuals? ...
Organized crime, forests and climate change
in Sox First, on October 8, 2009
...quot;Organized crime syndicates are eyeing the nascent forest carbon market." So what sort of fraud would it be? The most obvious would be claiming credits for forests that don't exist. Ther...
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...
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
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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 ...
BAE brought to justice (finally)
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...Saudi Arabian government. As I pointed out here , the uproar broke out after Britain's Serious Fraud Office dropped its investigation into the alleged bribery allegations. Now, it looks like the...
Can the SEC be sued for Madoff?
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...ken but negligently performed." Still, to cover itself the SEC is now looking at setting up a fraud college to help its officials detect financial shenanigans, reports Bloomberg . As if the stu...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-09-04
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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 ...
UBS whistleblower jailed
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
... banker Bradley Birkenfeld was this week sentenced to three years four months for conspiring to defraud the US by helping clients to cheat taxes. Let's forget the fact that Birkenfeld was actua...
Free Software Foundation trashes Windows 7
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-29
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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...
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...
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...
Madoff's right hand man pleads guilty: who's next?
in Sox First, on August 12, 2009
...hich raises the obvious question: who's next? How could his wife Ruth Madoff not know about the fraud? And what about the fund managers who sent him money from investors?...
No bail for Black
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
... have to hand it to Conrad Black. Two years after he sentenced to six-plus years in the slammer for fraud, he has still been seeking bail pending an appeal. If anyone told he had a snowflake's cha...
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 ...
Climate change junket for Congress
in Sox First, on August 10, 2009
Diving on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, waking up in a plush hotel in Waikiki and spending New Years Eve in Christchurch watching fire works. All part of the job for members of Congress who went on a fact finding mission to investigate climate change. According to The Wall Street Journa...
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,...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
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The big accounting fraud news this week was the Security and Exchange Commission announcing that conglomerate GE had cooked the books, boosting its earnings by $785 million and its revenues by ...
Sipera Systems Launches UC-Sec 100 Security Appliance
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 7, 2009
...rk and protection against VoIP and UC security vulnerabilities and zero day threats, including toll fraud, eavesdropping and data theft," writes eWeek's Nathan Eddy .
"Like all Sipera...
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...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-08-07
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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
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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...
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...
First SOX clawback
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
...fficers and chief executive officers to reimburse the company bonuses and stock profits following a fraud. The rationale behind the legislation is that they were running the company when misleading in...
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 ...
Recession-fuelled crime wave
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...economy expected to contract by 4.2%. In recession-stricken Britain, the Daily Mail reports that fraud by company directors is up 313%. Petty theft has risen massive 25%, shoplifting 10% and drug o...
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 ...
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&...
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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
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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. ...
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...
Housing slump boosts population in New York City, other big cities
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 3, 2009
The housing slump has certainly had some unforeseen consequences. For instance, it may have actually helped boost the number of people living in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago.
A story by Bloomberg News theorizes that falling home values in the suburbs of California and Florida may h...
It's getting tougher to get a mortgage-broker license
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 2, 2009
...It's harder to become a mortgage broker these days. Of course, it seems like an ever dwindling people want to be mortgage brokers today. Maybe, then, it's an example of everything working out ...
Are you ready for a mortgage loan?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 1, 2009
...ut to be a homeowner right now. You may not be financially ready to take on the burden of a monthly mortgage payment.
Look at your history of paying your existing bills. Are you ever late sending in ...
Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
...as called for the creation of a new consumer protection agency. The agency would have dominion over mortgage lenders. And as part of their new rules, mortgage lenders would have to offer customers wha...
