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Mortgage bailout plans: options as they stand, today

It’s as good a time as any to outline several of the government’s proposed “bailout” plans. (Proposals followed by my own comments, of course.)
* The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) proposes spending $24 billion of the $700 billion bailout funds to help 1.5 million households avert foreclosure.
The FDIC would guarantee 2.2 million modified loans, [...]

11/19/08 | Leave a comment »

Be very careful when you tell someone he’s underwater on his mortgage

11/14/08 | Leave a comment »

Solution to world economic crisis? You.

There was a column in yesterday’s Times by a “financial consultant and economic historian(?)” who suggested a solution to the “housing crisis”; actually, a grand solution to the US and world economic crisis.
The solution? Government intervention.
The best solution proposed so far has been from Sheila C. Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. [...]

11/10/08 | Leave a comment »

Update: who is going into foreclosure?

How do we help people in foreclosure? Or, is the question still, do we help people in foreclosure.
As we enter year three of the subprime lending crisis, experts are beginning to see hard data on what’s going on out there.
From the wire.
Here are five reasons why the foreclosure crisis has proved hard to fix:
Falling [...]

10/30/08 | Leave a comment »

I’m just a bill. Yes only a bill. And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill

“I’m just a Bill….on Capitol Hill…….“
Okay, I am dating myself. If anyone recognizes the jingle it certainly conjures up memories of Saturday mornings spent on the couch waiting for the Banana Splits to come on.
Let me get this straight…….The day after the House said they couldn’t come to terms on a bail-out bill the market [...]

10/06/08 | 4 Comments »

Odd coincidence? Broke homeowners going into foreclosure

Odd coincidence or the source of the problem?
Traditionally, the government and most lenders consider home owners spending 30 percent or more of their income on housing costs to be financially burdened. That definition now covers nearly 38 percent of American home owners with a mortgage – 19 million of them.
Here are the top 13 areas [...]

09/23/08 | Leave a comment »

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