Obama Proposes Moratorium on Foreclosures

While Senator John McCain is urging the government to buy bad home loans, ... against foreclosures and an $800 mortgage tax credit per year for homeowners who fail to itemize ... , the Hope for Homeowners. The program encourages homeowners to apply for refinancing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 13:02:58

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Waldman On Thinking Clearly About Expenditures & Investments

Last week we ran a post displaying several graphs of the 2008 bailout vs other government projects ... a security derived from a mortgage or credit card loan made two years ago.” Click Here To Read Steve ... of the credit crisis? Risk or Conservative BehaviorPaul Krugman’s Thoughts About ThinkingGood and Bad [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 16:00:36

Monday: Bi-Partisan Bank Robbery?

I don’t pretend to understand Credit Derivative Swaps and financial ‘instruments’ and it looks like the people who have been playing with them for ... like the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) where the government would restructure and refinance bad mortgages from individual homeowners and make them affordable.  The theory goes that if those [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 12:26:24

The Fannie/Freddy bailout

It’s almost as if the feds are trying to flush the economy down the crapper ... holders of U.S. Treasury bonds. -Higher rates are bad for anyone with a mortgage, credit card debt, a home equity loan, a margin account, etc. -Higher rates also increase the government’s debt burden [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 01:21:54

Wall Street bailout: Congress 'must move'

by Mark Silva With leaders of both Democratic and Republican House ranks blaming each other for the initial failure of a $700-billion federal ... if the government does not act to unlock financial markets frozen by bad mortgage debt threatening a credit crunch at every level of the economy, threatening everything from home loans to car loans [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 21:35:44

Bailout Nation: "If we bail out Detroit, where do we stop?"

The unprecedented government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has ushered in a new era of government intervention in corporate ... is a bad credit risk -- the corporate equivalent of a subprime borrower looking for a huge mortgage ... billion in low-interest loans, the L.A. Times reports. There are also whispers on Wall Street [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 00:30:25

Obama on McCain on buying up bad mortgages

Here’s Obama’s response to McCain’s mortgage buy-back proposal: Senator McCain and I had a chance to talk about this the other night in Nashville ... those loans to make a quick buck. We have to act to fix our broken economy and restore the credit ... with the financial crisis, and that was to have the government – meaning taxpayers – buy up bad [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 12:44:04

A Good Start

Chris Dodd’s plan: WASHINGTON (AP) — Judges could rewrite mortgages to lower bankrupt homeowners’ monthly payments as part of congressional ... including credit card debt or car loans — from any financial institution in the U.S. or abroad in order ... their bad assets on the government in the massive rescue would have to limit their executives’ pay [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 18:18:39

3rd Wave of Foreclosure Hits The Jobless

People With Traditional Mortgages Who Have Lost Their Jobs Are Now Facing Foreclosure (CBS) ... up. With a government job, good credit, and a 30 year fixed rate loan on her southern California house, Judy ... swept up are not greedy investors, or people who got in over their heads with bad loans, reports CBS [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 06:00:20

After the Bailout, Bank Stocks are a Bad Deal for Investors Now

The $250 billion bank bailout announced Monday is a great improvement on the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) ... have invested in troubled mortgage loans, relics of a home mortgage bubble that should never ... . You haven’t received Uncle Sam’s credit card bill yet. Under the new bailout plan, the government [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:59:00

Lala Land

Blink and you may miss another government bail-out, loan guarantee, federal plan to alleviate a bad or unwise mortgage, a suggestion for more government funds for a more aggrieved constituency, or credit-card relief ... that there were no Americans who chose to rent until they could pay a suitable sum as a down payment, or bought [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 00:47:41

Bank Bailout Puts Taxpayers At Risk

ABC News' Betsy Stark reports: It all feels less frantic than the government's rescue of the financial system a couple of months ago -- and we can ... , it is reasonable to expect more loan defaults on everything from mortgages to credit cards. And if banks ... these bad assets that are draining bank reserves and investor confidence. In other words, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:01:22

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