Credit Bubble bulletin ~ Nolan's analysis

A Divergence: The 2009 stock market has quickly come face-to-face with the reality that the worst of our banking system’s problems have yet to pass ... is now moving briskly. Citi management this morning announced a plan to create a new entity (“bad ... and is now backing $301bn of Citi’s real estate loans and securities. From Bank of America came the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 09:47:29

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The Great Unwind

flickr (TW Collins) In “The Arabian Nights,” the beautiful princess Scheherazade buys one day of life at a time by recounting fantastic fables that ... diminishes the capacity for further credit creation in the future. The second phase of the cure is the higher cost and lower availability of credit. This forces corporations to sell assets, reduce [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 10:00:06

A Hint Of The Nightmare To Come

It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “For four years the Neal family called a two-family house in New Haven, home ... that really hurts people. We’ve had a lot of people say ‘We love the house,’’ but they just can’t find ... trying to sell her home. ‘It’s hard to find people who can get financing,’ said Moore. ‘It’s getting [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 21:25:41

Home Prices Rise for Third Straight Month

RISMEDIA, September 30, 2009—(MCT)—The market value of U.S. homes in 20 major cities rose by 1.6% in July compared with June, the third monthly increase  in a row, according to the Case-Shiller home price index recently released by Standard & Poor’s.  In July, prices rose in 18 of 20 cities. Only Seattle and Las Vegas recorded lower prices in July than in June. In the past year, prices are down 13.3% in the 20 cities. Prices are down 32.6% from the peak, and are now at levels seen in late 2003. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 20:56:30

Help! Poor Black People Are Stealing the Election from Rich White Guys

By Lloyd Hart You may have noticed over the last week the word acorn or to be more exact A.C.O.R.N ... bought all those bad loans (and have an automatic government rescue program to their charters ... practices in minority neighborhoods - a deliberate practice of banks not providing equal access to credit [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 21:55:03

Helping to Explain the Bailout Issue to Jittery Clients/Consumers

by: Chris Galler, COO - Minnesota Association of REALTORS Most of the consumers you talk with will not have a good handle - I am not sure anyone does yet - of the nature of the credit problem. In this short article, I hope to give you at least ... and now holds in their portfolio is reported as a bad investment because the value of the asset [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 17:06:08

Mortgage Refinance – Tips and Ideas to Help You Apply For Mortgage

Mortgage refinance is one of the best ways to save money and increase savings. Doing your homework in terms of research will definitely help you to avoid the hidden cost and other expenditures. It not only lowers the monthly payment as the interest rate drops but also shortens the tenure of the loan period which is anytime beneficial to clear the debt as soon as possible. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 18:16:17

Six Simple Steps to Avoid Credit Problems in a Bad Economy

The New York Times ran a story today that says the next consumer crisis is credit cards — a sobering fact in a nation that has racked up massive amounts of credit card debt. Unfortunately, when times get hard, many people turn to credit cards ... this myself, buying things on credit when I had no other way to pay for them. I’m not talking about [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 23:20:31

Homeowners come up empty in bailout

For people facing foreclosure — and for the housing and community development groups trying to help them — there’s been little to ... loans didn’t make it in the final version. Nor did a proposal to set aside for affordable housing ... are to blame. It doesn’t get any better from there. The credit crisis is likely to make it even [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 12:05:41

FACING SOUTH INVESTIGATION: How did Republicans get an $8 million bailout from failing Wachovia?

UPDATE: A version of this story is now the top-ranked diary at DailyKos -- go visit for more information and discussion Wachovia Corp ... charges of favoritism, as Wachovia denies credit and freezes assets for thousands of other customers ... back on making loans. By July 2008, Wachovia branches were turning down most loan requests that came [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 19:33:45

Lessons Learned From Losing a Quarter Million Dollars

About the author: This guest article is presented by Debtkid, who recently begun working part-time for LendingClub ... that day, I made over $15,000 in a few hours with my laptop. I was 22 years old. Too bad I was already ... first with stocks, then options, then currencies. I gained access to capital from credit cards, personal [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 12:30:53

Get Money Quickly With Online Payday Advances

by Rose Martin Payday advances have helped millions of people get the cash that they need in a small amount of time. When people are looking to get something in a hurry, the typically tend to turn to the internet. Especially if you need money in a rush, you should make sure that you get online to get an advance first. Here are the ways that you too can benefit from a payday advance. The money that you get from a loan company needs to be paid within about two week’s time. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 20:53:06

Are Washington Consumers Safer Working with DFI Regulated Lenders?

I’ve always thought so and you may say I’m biased since I work for a company that is regulated by Washington State Department of Financial ... for financing bad loans.  But the two federal agencies in recent years have increasingly shielded ... Institutions.  At the very least, home owners who have been wronged by a loan originator under DFI [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 18:13:51

Community Activists Continue to Exacerbate Housing Crisis

The community activist types — like Barack Obama — who helped bring about our financial crisis by using Jimmy Carter’s insane Community Reinvestment Act to terrorize banks into making bad loans based on race are still causing havoc. IBD reports ... Assistance Corp. of America, makes a good living shaking down banks for loans to deadbeat borrowers [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 17:41:00

Lectures on Macroeconomics, No. 11

This lecture discusses what I think of as the Leijonhufvud interpretation of macroeconomics as an attempt to characterize an economy that is far ... of food production to land is fixed, you will predict that soon we will see people starving ... become scarce, would people not be able to create money substitutes? In practice, that sort of thing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 20:23:08

Credit Card Lenders Clamp Down Hard

Consumers are in a newly austere mood, and those who have lived beyond or at the edge of their means may be forced to retrench whether they want to ... wrote off an estimated $21 billion in bad credit card loans in the first half of 2008 ... , some can come back to haunt consumers. The result can be a lower credit score, which forces a borrower [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 03:50:36

AEI Subprime IV.3: Roubini Presentation

Here is Housing Doom’s third installment of our unauthorized annotated transcript of the American Enterprise Institute’s September 30, 2008 seminar " ... in terms of output contraction are not going to be as bad as the Great Depression because ... there much more generalized asset bubble and credit bubble in the economy. It was subprime, it was near [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 07:01:46

Monday morning links

TOP STORIES Fed, Treasury revamp AIG support - MarketWatch China Unveils Sweeping Plan for Economy - NY Times Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal ... For U.S. Banks - Washington Post Why banks are boosting credit card interest rates - USA Today Bear Stearns ... a bigger boom imply a bigger bust? - CFR How Low, How Bad, How Long? - Hussman Funds Laying [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 14:24:06

Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn on the Lights?

An open letter to the local daily paper — almost every local daily paper in America: I remember reading All the President’s Men and thinking: ... , but when they can’t make the payments, they lose the house — along with their credit rating. They end up worse ... loan?  It’s a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay. The goal of this [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 05:00:52

Community Activists Continue to Exacerbate Housing Crisis

The community activist types — like Barack Obama — who helped bring about our financial crisis by using Jimmy Carter's insane Community Reinvestment Act to terrorize banks into making bad loans based on race are still causing havoc. IBD reports ... Assistance Corp. of America, makes a good living shaking down banks for loans to deadbeat borrowers [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 17:31:54

End of The Year Market Report for Charlottesville Region

Copyright RealCentralVA.com, LLC. If you are not reading this at RealCentralVA.com the site you see is likely stealing content ... ‘em … wait! yes he does , Auto Bailouts, Investment Banking Bailouts, Credit Card companies ... - - Interest rates are ridiculously low, and loans are absolutely still available. - It is a Buyer’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 14:00:36

Where Are We Today? A 10-Item News Roundup

It’s almost impossible to follow everything that’s going on in the economy these days ... . 10. Stuck in a bad economy, some Latin American immigrants are turning around and going back home. ... their money in U.S. Treasury bills instead of extending credit to one another or to stretched customers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 15:00:42

Don’t Be Afraid To Walk Away

It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “The Manhattan residential real estate market cooled in the third quarter ... billions of dollars of loans for New York real estate deals, collapsed two weeks ago, it was clear that something more profound was afoot.” “‘Any continued impediment to the credit markets is awful [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 19:40:32

Blaming the Wrong Borrowers

Media Matters weighs in on the topic we wrote about Tuesday on TWI — the fact that blaming low-income and minority borrowers for the housing crisis ... the Community Reinvestment Act, an anti-redlining law, by saying it forced banks to make bad loans ... in general. I believe it is very important to make a distinction between the two. Most of the loans [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 12:42:54

FHA chatter; News from MERS, Wells, Flagstar; Home price index not as bad as feared

  As my grandfather used to say, “If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”* Apparently the folks at Sunwest Bank , out of Tustin, CA, felt the same way. Clients received a letter saying, “I regret to inform you that as of October 2, 2009, Sunwest Bank will be suspending its mortgage banking operations. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 19:04:07

Consumers' New Found Embrace of Savings Will Make for a Nasty Downturn

The blow to many Americans' net worth via diminished home values and shrunken retirement accounts has lead to a new found insecurity and ... by credit card companies, banks, and auto lenders getting more stringent and, where applicable, cutting back on credit lines. Thus, consumers suddenly (at least for now) want to be savers (note [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 04:06:27

Who’s To Blame for Tech’s Woes? You and Me

The last time technology investments took a hit, it was easy to look around at the scattered sock puppets and dark fiber, ... t their wholehearted embrace of the web — it’s consumers’ wholehearted embrace of credit. That’s right, this tech ... debt, in the form of home equity loans and credit financing, which they’ve used to buy fancier cars [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 04:01:17

Bad Credit Home Loans – Unemployed and Need Money Help?

Bad credit home loans are something that have gained in popularity since the beginning of the recession.  Many borrowers who once had good credit now have bad credit.  Some of these borrowers are unemployed and need money help.  Unfortunately these hard working Americans have been put in a tough situation that is sometimes hard to get out of.  Luckily for them there are companies out there who will help paying or getting a bad credit home loan. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 17:22:22

Indian Secularism: A status report by Shah Abdul Halim

Technorati Tags: India,Bharat,Indian secularism,Hindu religious bigotry,Muslims پاکستاان لیجر | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا  |Sept. 25th, 08 | Moin Ansari |  معین آنصآرّی |   State of Indian Secularism Shah Abdul Halim I am a Muslim, I cannot help my tears; I have gone through fifty nine long years, Suffering pangs of hunger, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 03:19:03

The First To Fall And The Last To Rise

The Manteca Bulletin reports from California. “In the go-go days of stratospheric housing price increases some newer neighborhoods - such as Woodward Park, Diamond Oaks, and Villa Ticino - were seeing prices jump as much as $5,000 a month. Now those neighborhoods have returned back to earth as closed deals so far this month signal that banks are [more...]

Date: 2008-10-11 18:59:11

It’s Your Money

It was, anyway. Remember when you had some? Dow plummets on opening, Wall Street rout drags everyone else down. Look on the bright side ... the credit markets more quickly via capital infusions from the Paulson facility. And unlike the Paulson ... that the Treasury could receive some kind of equity kicker in the refinance. Thus a homeowner [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 13:45:35

Hank Williams Jr. sings McCain's praise

by Frank James Country star Hank Williams Jr. has penned a tune for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin callled "McCain-Palin Tradition ... Fannie Mae N Freddie Mac Just like 1, 2, 3 The bankers didn't want to make all those bad loans ... , that the Democrats caused the financial meltdown by pressuring bankers to give loans to helpless bankers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 12:37:42

Bail Me, Stimulate Me

In a week that signaled much worse is coming, perhaps the more dismal indication on the financial front was that Democrats finally had a chance to ... the kind of behavior that got us here: more bad loans to the wrong people won't en our crisis; they make ... . If that sounds bad, it shouldn't; this week's debate on TARP had essentially the same contours [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:24:10

How to keep on financing wind farms when banks have no money left.

My earlier wind diaries can all be found here: Wind power series Banks are engaged in a massive deleveraging exercise right now. One part of that has been much described and commented upon: the elimination of bad assets ... vulnerable to the credit crunch. And indeed, expectations are that the fourth quarter will show a severe [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 17:13:33

Snoozer’s Jolt

The debate was a snooze that changed little. Except maybe one thing. McCain trotted out his proposal to have the government get in the corner of people with bad mortgages, and renegotiate to keep them in their houses. While the pointy-headed media types are working themselves into a lather over “that one, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 14:04:01

Busting the Ghosts of Hope

Expectations for Barack Obama’s presidency have continued to soar since his historic election. Millions believe change is possible. But what kind of change? And to whose benefit? Our country and our world are in crisis, and the tepid, incremental reforms Obama has been emphasizing aren’t going to cut it. It’s time to think outside the box [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:44:52

Builders Bury Promises Made to Banks

The banking system’s plan to bail out cash-strapped housebuilders by restructuring loans to help them survive a market slump is under strain, ... rules, which permit banks not to classify loans to real estate firms as bad loans the moment ... , blame banks for causing the market slump and lower sales volumes by charging high rates on home loans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:26:15

Things You Need to Know Before Raising a Private Loan

Things You Need to Know Before Raising a Private Loan by Martin ElmerA personal loan (consumer loan, private loan) could be an option, if you are short on money. But before you are raising a loan, you better learn about concepts like security, fees and interest rates.A personal loan is defined as a loan rose by an individual. Normally it is raised to buy something (like a vacation or a television). But it can also be used to pay of other dept. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-30 11:41:02

Mitt Romney's Stimulus Plan

Now that President Bush has sold-out the free market to the UAW, by giving GM and Chrysler loans without any restrictions, ... and home values have plummeted. This translates into about $400 billion less annual consumer spending ... either, as bank loans and secondary-market financing have shrunk and as fresh equity is virtually [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 14:33:00

Highlights and Lowlights of BofA’s Earnings Call

Bank of America moved its earnings announcement up to this morning to soothe investors after The Wall Street Journal’s report that BofA would need ... and $27 billion in credit costs. Many of the problems originated at Merrill Lynch, which had a loss ... Goldman Sachs research analysts noted wryly in a research report this morning. BofA CEO Ken Lewis [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 16:01:30

From Bad To Worse To Horrible To Holy Crap!

It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “After years of making Canadians feel steadily richer, ... said even more cases are coming as banks take bad loans off their books. ‘That’s when we’ll see why these loans went so bad, and there will be criminal investigations,’ said Curt Novy, a California [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 20:26:25

Meet a self-described “bank terrorist”

Revolting (h/t: Moonbattery): Bruce Marks, founder of the leftist Neighborhood Assistance Corp ... “easy lending.” Listen to NACA’s pitch: “Come to NACA, and regardless of how bad your credit ... , while increasing the number of mortgages it restructures by lowering interest rates and extending loan [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 23:53:27

Emotional, financial and legal advice on surviving redundancy

Keep calm Remember you're not alone Redundancy can be a devastating, sometimes brutal, experience but it's not your fault ... the credit crunch in your own backyard," says Phillip Hodson, a fellow of the British Association ... way as due to the western economic cycle, the bastard in charge of hiring and firing, or bad luck [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 14:45:20

Painful eyes

A lot of emails come my way every 24 hours. Some stand out. Like this one. Not just that she’s a realtor who likes me ( ... to holding mortgage and credit card debt to the tune of 75 Billion, they say well that’s normal that’ ... citizens have become. Not just because she now laments the influence of cheap credit and easy money [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:17:13

What does it all mean

There’s been a bit of discussion about what Alan Greenspan really conceded in his recent testimony ... have changed. Baker says Financial deregulation gave consumers a vast range of financial instruments (credit cards, home equity loans) that enabled them to match their spending with changes in their incomes [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 11:46:51

Deflation Buyer Strategy: Buy To Renovate

A: Its been a while since I spoke out loud about a buy side tip I will be giving to my clients these days. I apologize as I focused content on the credit crisis and deteriorating macro fundamentals ... , job insecurity rising, and loans are harder and more expensive to get, what type of product [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 16:45:43

Stocking Stuffer

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse… With the Federal Reserve cutting bank lending rates to near zero, ... up with a lot of what makes America both good and bad, modern and in debt. A friend told the story ... interest and never pays off the loan. That way, when the value of the house goes up, they can flip [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:47:31

Turning Japanese I really think so

As most of you probably already know, with the "effective" Fed funds rate much closer to zero percent than to the one percent prescribed by the " ... bets that are bound to inflate another asset class eventually. As discussed in this report ... not affect the rate banks actually pay. Normally, the Fed keeps the funds rate on target by draining [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 21:20:31

Creative Financing In Large Real Estate Transactions

I have a friend who has fallen on hard times, and he owns home that is (was) ... the valuations have fallen so far. Use Your IRA To Help Reduce Your Mortgage Balance The first thing ... collateral that they can borrow against. In the case of somebody who is trying to finance (or refinance [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 12:38:03

Double mortgage deductability! Good idea?

Your blogger’s job — despite what some of you think — is to simply toss out facts and ideas to ... Party.” “How about a double deduction on the car loans, limited to the US (or NAFTA) content of the car ... and what-nots for late or missed payments on their (credit cards,) John Q will never get out of [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 04:00:52

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