Negative Equity, Not Sub-Prime to Blame; New 125% Refi LTV share 2 days ago by Danilo Bogdanovic Two interesting discussions are going on right now over at VAR buzz (Disclosure: I wrote one of the posts). The first is about the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) increasing their loan-to-value (LTV) limits from 105 to 125 percent. The second is about how it’s negative equity loans, not sub ... Loudoun Foreclosures - loudounforeclosures.com · Rank: 82,810 · 6 references | 12. Real Estate Finance and its Vulnerability to Crisis share 2 days ago by admin Financial Markets (ECON 252) Real Estate is the biggest et class and of great importance for both individuals and institutional investors. An array of economic and psychological factors impact real estate investment decisions and the public has changing ideas of real estate as a profitable investmen ... Florida Motorcyclist - floridamotorcyclist.com | Scribd -- Vanity Fair: The Man Who Crashed the World by Michael Lewis (PDF) share 2 days ago by adamcrowe "Six months ago, I received an odd phone call from a man named Jake DeSantis at AIG Financial Products—the infamous unit of the doomed insurance company, staffed by expensively education, highly paid traders, whose financial ineptitude is widely suspected of costing the US taxpayer $182.5bn and coun ... Adam Crowe - delicious.com/adamcrowe · 160 references | Obama loses 2.5 million jobs, 9.5% unemployment, worst in 26 years share 2 days ago by Wintery Knight When Democrats talk about economic policies, they don’t actually know what they are talking about. They just make up numbers and conducting kabuki-theater townhalls with pre-screened questions from hard-core Democrat activists. They’ll say whatever is necessary in order to maintain power. Want proof ... Wintery Knight Blog - winteryknight.wordpress.com · Rank: 12,162 · 39 references | The Man Who Crashed The World share 2 days ago by ebischof August, 2009 Vanity Fair article investigating the implosion of A.I.G., Michael Lewis explains how one of the world’s safest insurers became a reckless juggernaut—and a national target. Link to Vanity Fair summary Link to scanned article The New New Blog - thenewnewblog.wordpress.com | Austerity is Missing from the Financial Bailout Debate share 2 days ago by The Daily Reckoning Within the billions of sentences about the financial bailout there is one word notably absent, austerity. All talk is of payments, supports, subsidies, incurring more debt, stimulus packages. The thesis seems to be: If only we spend more the party can go on. True, only if the financial meltdown is a ... The Daily Reckoning Australia - dailyreckoning.com.au · Rank: 76,781 · 6 references | Subprime Thinking share 4 days ago by R.oB. Did Liberals Cause the Sub-Prime Crisis? | The American Prospect: "It's telling that, amid all the recent recriminations, even lenders have not fingered CRA. That's because CRA didn't bring about the reckless lending at the heart of the crisis. Just as sub-prime lending was exploding, CRA was losing ... The R.oB. Opinion - therobopinion.net | |