Three Ways to Know When the Credit Crisis Hits Bottom

There is a growing body of data that suggests banks have recognized only a fraction of the overall potential losses - approximately $50 billion to ... t include the additional losses from secondary-prime mortgage loans, auto loans, credit card balances, student loans and the other credit-related flotsam and jetsam floating around in the debt markets [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 13:42:23

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The Poverty Business

Sorry if this appears to be an older article, and not latest headlines, just thought it was interesting - loki The Poverty Business Inside U.S ... into Byrider, Tsosie drove off, jubilant, in a 1999 Saturn subcompact she bought entirely on credit ... access to credit has put cars, computers, credit cards, and even homes within reach for many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:45:24

Bad Credit Mortgage Refinance Options

Many people that have bad credit are looking to refinance their home. They should know that it is really not that hard to do and is not impossible. Contrary to belief, there are lenders out there that are bad credit mortgage lenders and offer bad credit mortgage refinance to consumers. They can tell you about all the many types of loans that you could qualify for, even if you have bad credit. If your credit is not too bad, they can also help you finding financing options as well. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-21 22:32:26

Stores With Layaway Option Seeing Increased Interest

I know it is en vogue to bring back things from the past, but this is a trend I thought had gone forever:  layaway.  With tightening credit policies, and maxed out consumer debt, it seems layaway is making a comeback.  Personally, I am not a big fan of layaway, ranking it somewhere between using a credit card [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 19:00:32

How Bad Will The Bush Depression Be?

It looks like Bush is racing in his final days as occupant of the White House to see if he can beat Herbert Hoover's economic record as the most ... to the worsening credit crisis. That has put pressure on Congress and the White House to come ... to predicting that if GOP extremists are allowed to force the auto manufacturers into bankruptcy [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 20:30:00

Unilateralism Spells Cop Out - Olmert/Livni Buckle!

If these two reports below are correct, and I suspect they are reliable, it would be a travesty of justice perpetrated by Olmert, Livni and Barak ... , politicians must do something, be seen as pro-active for fear of being perceived as unresponsive. Bad medicine is bad medicine. (See 2 below.) Even if the two most powerful men in our tax system [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 03:50:00

2009: IT AIN’T OVER YET !

It’s been almost a month since my last post and we are already in the third week of January! So let’s get started ... . Question is, how bad is it going to get. While I was cautious while making forecasts for 2008, the extent ... and Central Banks are trying to reflate the ‘dying credit bubble’ party with a new round of credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 07:38:00

U.S. Banks Refuse to Detail How They’re Spending Federal Bailout Money

After receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded federal bailout money, the biggest U.S ... - instead of lending at home. Some of those buyouts deals are being done in markets as far away as China. Meanwhile, credit remains tight here in the U.S. market, a situation that could be alleviated if only [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 12:19:23

Beige Book’s Midwestern Summary

From the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book (HTML, PDF). Economic activity in the Seventh District declined further in December, ... market conditions weakened. Construction declined, and manufacturing activity moved lower. Credit ... . In agriculture, field work was limited in December by bad weather. Consumer Spending Consumer spending [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:00:38

The Faux Bottom, Housing Worsens, Newspapers in Trouble, An Oversold Sector, and More!

ur “Obama Rally” forecast… will things “get worse before they get better” or vice versa?… Print in the doghouse… Tribune Co., New York Times and McClatchy looking desperate… Still no bottom in sight for housing… foreclosure, refi and pending home sales data all down… Anecdotal evidence of tough times to come… Wiggin house, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:43:43

There’s More Banking Crisis Ahead

This morning, we’ll get accelerated earnings announcements from Citigroup and Bank of America. They basically have to do this because the whispering and the uncertainty about both enterprises is starting to get really hard to ignore. And BAC just became the recipient of a government-assistance deal much like what Citi got in December: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:00:38

Things You Tend Not To Spend Much Time Thinking Seriously About When Making A Decision To Relocate

I have had this item on my blogging to-do list for probably 18 months now, without attempting to address it ... s start with credit history, something discussed in this blog a long time ago. Or, rather, your lack of such overseas, which will hamper your efforts to obtain auto financing or even apply for local credit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:29:06

No Credit Check Loans – No Bank Account Loan for You

No credit check loans are often hard to get but not impossible to obtain.  Having no bank account and poor credit can greatly hinder your chance of getting a low interest rate or even getting a loan at all.  Many banks and financial institutions will immediately disqualify you if you do not have a bank account and you are a very bad credit borrower; this does not mean that there is no assistance out there. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 19:58:06

Refinancing When You Owe More Than The Home Is Worth

I've been looking around for an answer to this but my searches haven't returned anything useful ... ? Was all the refinance hype only because the markets kept going up? Is this the reason why people who got an bad loan ... to the utter limit for 100% financing could refinance into more favorable loans as their equity picture [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 09:54:12

The Market Treads Water While Short-Termism Continues to Dominate

The Fed push rates towards zero. The White House stretches the intent of TARP in order to bail out the automakers ... the foundations of another credit bubble and hyper-inflation when consumption resumes. The impact ... them rebuild their capital positions by holding term Treasuries, financing short and riding the yield [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 16:57:14

Guest Post: Time to Recapitalize Banks Fully

As debate continues over the release of the second half of the Treasury Department’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, ... recapitalizations using government money on October 13th, but largely by massive credit lines from the Federal ... in the payments system (in which letters of credit and the willingness to take counterparty risk [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 11:47:00

Snapshot in Time

Click charts to ENLARGE. My daughter asked for an article to summarize where we are, ... , as predicted by Peter Warburton in Debt and Delusion, it didn't turn out that way. Feckless credit expansion ... . Unchecked credit growth inevitably produces declining credit quality, and failed debt, magnified [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:27:42

Those Order Takers Are Now Gone In California

The Ventura County Star reports from California. “According to Bill Watkins, executive director of the UC Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project…a foreclosed home in California sells for $200,000 less than a traditional home. Until foreclosures are worked through the market, ‘we don’t think the real estate market can clean itself up, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 18:47:48

Loans - Home Improvement Loan in the UK

Find the value of your property increase? A Home improvement Loan could be the easiest and cheapest way to make improvements to your home. Home Improvement Loan is a fixed-rate mortgage loans require no collateral and must be used for home improvement projects. Home equity loans are looking for individual projects funded home repairs, reconstruction projects, room additions, a pool and more without the development of the equity of their home. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 07:39:34

Pocket Profile: The Finance Buff

This week we spoke with The Finance Buff. His blog was named the Best Finance Blog for People Ready to Save or Invest by the CEO of Wesabe ... percentile! Credit Card Debt: None. Top percentile! What are your two favorite financial products? Why ... : Greater than 90% of Americans. Rent/mortgage: 34% of Americans pay more in rent. Credit Score: Don’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:07:27

Personal Finance Money Tips Q&A #1

This is the first post of the regular questions and answers series. If you have any question, please try our forum ... . To me, I have bad experience with a local bank (not good to disclose here, just call it Bank A) - poor service and slow respond. I am refinancing the home loan to HSBC and Bank A keeps giving trouble [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 23:00:50

Bad Credit Doesn’t Have To Mean No Loan Help

Everyone faces unavoidable financial problems at some time and find that they are in an impossible situation and unable to meet their obligations ... , but that is not necessarily true. There are two types of bad credit personal loans, secured and unsecured. A homeowner may qualify for the secured personal loan and non-homeowners may apply for the uns [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 09:36:37

Appraisal Fraud and Industry Standards Described in 2003 Official White Paper-RED FLAGS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH EXCELLENT DIAGRAMS EXPLANATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BEST PRACTICES

loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_ffiecloan_origination_mortgage_fraud_prevention_response_nelsonRed Flags • Critical loan processing activities, such as  verification of income, employment, or deposit, is delegated to brokers. • Delegated underwriting allowed for correspondents that are new or lack an established track record with the FI [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:33:10

WaMu’s New $1 million 5-year 1% Balloon Loan (mod) - $878 Per Month!

1/5/09 - EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY - Modified Loans are Ineligible For Fannie/Freddie Refi’s, while FHA MAY Be Eligible ... for conforming loan financing.” All Sorts of Consequences This has all sorts of consequences ... . In my experience, most mods result in one of more of their definitions of ‘restructured.’ A restructured loan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:52:15

Mortgage: 3 Tips On Finding The Cheapest Rates

There are a lot of things to do when looking to buy a home but the most important is to get the most interesting mortgage loan rates available on the market. When applying for a loan, having a high credit score allows you to have a number ... one. Important: in some countries there are only established only two kinds of credit score: the good [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 12:34:42

Bad Credit Financing – Unemployed and Need Money?

Bad credit financing is something that many unemployed Americans are looking for to get money help.  If you are unemployed and cannot find a way to make ends meet financially by getting a bad credit loan it might make things a little bit easier.  The issue at hand is the fact that getting a bad credit loan can sometimes be hard if you have no proof of income. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 23:02:25

It’s time to refinance ~ but is your home worth enough to get that great low rate?

Short sales, Bailouts, Mortgage Reductions…there are all kinds of programs being talked about, ... .  You have a credit score over 800?  Awesome…we’ll give you a loan for up to 100% of the value of your home ... .  But I have a question.  What about the homeowner who has never missed a payment, has a great credit score [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 04:16:58

DrumBeat: January 13, 2009

Analysis: Global power demand to languish in 2009 The outlook for energy commodities this year remains grim, says a new report from Merril Lynch. Neither cold winter temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere nor a steep fall in the price of energy have provided much support to the demand for oil, natural gas or coal [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:34

Bad Day For Old Media

There’s a slew of bad news today for old media companies, and all signs are that it’s only going to get worse ... and other properties has $13 billion in debt. Severe reductions in advertising this year because of the recession has put pressure on the company. Most of its debt comes from the complex transaction [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 22:22:34

Commercial Developers: Not a Credible Threat

Ok, I’ve been tardy in posting. I’m very sorry about that, lot’s of things are going on ... , there are multiple metrics for value and credit worthiness of a commercial property. Residential properties ... of loan amount to value). However, these are not created equal: FICO is used to ascertain [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 02:24:52

Flurry Of Fed Moves Could Lead To Hyper Inflation

In what was a surprising move yesterday, the Fed dropped the Fed funds rate basically to zero, surpassing market expectations. Everyone fears deflation, and the Fed is willing to do whatever it takes to avoid it. But as Toni Straka from The Prudent Investor points out, these drastic moves could soon lead us to hyper inflation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 17:27:58

Is there Good Debt?

by Michael Geoffrey Some people think that all debt is bad. But that is not the case. There is some debt that is actually good ... . The overwhelming majority of credit card purchases are things that lose value. Another bad debt is borrowing ... with the potential for a greater return in the long run. The money you spend is gone. * Credit card debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 09:19:02

“We can put light where there’s darkness, and hope where there’s despondency in this country ... S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, laid out the latest terrifying news: The credit markets ... easy credit, consumers who took on mortgages they could not afford and Wall Street chieftains [more...]

Date: 2008-12-21 16:01:46

Get Help With Debt When Necessary

Having debt is something that almost everybody has to deal with in their lives ... that determine its seriousness. Things like missed payments on magazine subscriptions or credit card debt shouldn ... . There are numerous forms of debt, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing. While debt is essentially [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 10:02:27

Bill Maloni does Banks

Bill’s latest didn’t need much editing beyond searching out some of the implied links. I omitted the family-related news at the very end, so if you’re a Maloni insider you’ll want to check out the original. This did end up being a bit of a derivative work. Bill, could you at least stick the links in next time? [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 14:10:21

The Consequences Of Devil-May-Care Lending

The Des Moines Register reports from Iowa. “Deb Baker believes she’s one of about 31, ... her ability to refinance her unaffordable loan or to sell her home. ‘You hate to lose what you put ... a fair number’ of the inflated appraisals that accompanied the subprime-loan boom now causing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 15:54:59

Why The IMF’s Decision To Agree A Lavian Bailout Programme Without Devaluation Is A Mistake

The IMF finally announced it’s Latvia “bailout” plan on Friday. The plan involves lending about €1.7 billion ($2.4 billion) ... its economic adjustment plan. The loan, which will be in the form of a 27-month stand-by arrangement ... Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. In return for the loan the IMF have agreed a “strong package [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 08:48:58

What The Rise And Fall In Housing Has Done

The Ventura County Star reports from California. “Thousands of Ventura County residents were pushed out of their homes last year, ... a year ago because they see the price slide continuing and ‘want to get out before it’s really bad,’ ... with programs from some of the major lenders and loan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:16:59

The Best Gubernatorial Campaign of 2008

The Best Gubernatorial Campaign of 2008 Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels handily defeated his Democratic opponent despite a tough landscape for incumbent Republicans and the fact that Obama carried the state. (AP Photo/ Indianapolis Star, Frank Espich) Yesterday we started our year-end awards by naming state Sen [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 15:30:35

Slumping Auto Sales Hurt Auto Loans

Perhaps the one market to see the heaviest damages besides the mortgage industry is the automotive industry ... a credit freeze situation that is making life difficult on multiple levels. It isn’t all bad news ... for this lies with the fact that automotive sales are down. In a vicious circle, the lack of auto sales hurts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:47:05

$75 Billion Needlessly Lost in Hasty Lehman Bankruptcy Filing?

There is a piece I regard as truly odd in the Wall Street Journal tonight. Either much of what I have read about investment bank bankruptcies is wrong, or something peculiar is at what used to be the house of Lehman. A Wall Street Journal article, "Lehman's Chaotic Bankruptcy Filing Destroyed Billions in Value," [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 06:11:28

The American Consumer Need To Learn How To Save

The world is changing. The American consumer has been the backbone of the global economy for the last quarter of a century. But the credit crisis is ushering in a new era of thrift. Is this the end of the world as we know it? Yes, says Justice Litle, but it isn’t necessarily a bad thing… This from Taipan Daily: Jim O’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 13:49:20

We’ve Only Just Begun

We’ve Only Just Begun—The Carpenters ... . If a family wants to own a home for stability and security because they have small children ... are paying an hefty price for their own bad timing. Look at what a difference a few years makes. Let [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:32:01

It’s Some Wonderful Nitpicking

There is no TV with enough pixels to rival the experience of watching a great movie in an actual movie theater. Sorry Samsung, it’s true.  I first figured this out when Fenzel and I went to see Superman at a midnight showing years ago [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 13:39:15

Deals of the Day: Goldman Recommends Fannie Mae Bonds

Deals of the Day, compiled by Stephen Grocer and Heidi N ... , bankruptcies, financing and private equity. You can bookmark Deal Journal for easy visiting throughout ... billion rescue package for the nation’s imperiled auto industry Wednesday night, but the emergency [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 13:33:58

: Renting vs Buying -- Knowing your loan options -- Part 3 of 3

Renting vs Buying -- Knowing your loan options -- Part 3 of 3     castle So, you have been told that you qualify for a home ... these before. A very good loan officer will ask you what your goals are prior to buying your first home ... as you can answer these few questions for the loan officer, he or she will be able to help you make [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 19:14:56

Wiping out my savings is one thing. Wiping out Bubbie and Zadie's is something else entirely

the now-famous video of me and Madoff and his employee Josh Stampfli misses. All that talk in the video about how Madoff makes money and what his dealings with the SEC are like relates to his brokerage business, which was a pillar of the Nasdaq system and was, as far as anybody knows at this point, on the up and up [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 12:04:47

SOC or Bust

With the implosion of Citigroup and the depth of losses across the banking sector, ... on infrastructure, the auto industry, and every other constituency that has come out of the woodwork ... Bank/Bad Bank restructuring of failing institutions), and includes items such as: Simplified [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 05:21:59

SOC or Bust

With the implosion of Citigroup and the depth of losses across the banking sector, ... on infrastructure, the auto industry, and every other constituency that has come out of the woodwork ... Bank/Bad Bank restructuring of failing institutions), and includes items such as: Simplified [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:55:53

Find Out Now Useful Knowledge - Car Loans

Find Out Now Useful Knowledge - Car Loans Posted on January 16, 2009 (0) Comments Show Bookmarks [ ... if you have a bad credit, although at a higher interest rate. Having finalized a deal, you shall ... . Even if you have bad credit, these companies will be happy to consider your car loan application [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 12:40:10

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