D.C. delegation comments on Obama’s health care plan – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Feb. 23, 2010 6:18 p.m. | Washington – President Barack Obama’s latest health care proposal is receiving mixed reaction on Capitol Hill. Democrats see the measure as their final shot at passing a comprehensive health care reform measure this year
Evening Reading: Just How Bad Were Those Goldman CDOs – Wall Street Journal
Goldman and AIG…the saga continues: At the congressional hearing on AIG’s rescue last month, a five-page document itemizing the mortgage securities on which banks such as Goldman Sachs and Societe Generale had bought $62.1 billion in credit
Jumbo mortgage market is beginning to thaw – Los Angeles Times
Rates on jumbo mortgages — loans of more than $729,750 in counties with the highest-cost housing — shot up during the financial crisis as lenders and loan investors shunned anything tainted with even a whiff of higher risk. Rates on big mortgages
Rolfe Winkler – Reuters Blogs
You don’t keep paying for something that you own. From FirstAmerican Core Logic: …more than 11.3 million, or 24 percent, of all residential properties with mortgages were in negative equity at the end of the fourth quarter of 2009 , up from 10.7
Greek Debt Chief Faces Tough Task – Wall Street Journal
Petros Christodoulou has just started one of the least enviable jobs in European financial markets—persuading wary investors to buy Greek debt. A U.S.- and London-trained former bond trader, Mr. Christodoulou was last week named head of Greece’s
State ranks low in finishing stimulus weatherization work – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Through Feb. 16, the state’s program that helps low-income homeowners install new furnaces, freezers and insulation had finished 772 units out of the more than 20,600 planned stimulus-funded units, the report from the Inspector General of the U.S
Realtors give commercial real estate outlook – Tacoma News Tribune
WASHINGTON – Commercial real estate is expected to remain a drag on the U.S. economy through 2010 and beyond. “You do see stress in the market. We’ve seen delinquency rates increasing. We’ve seen by a whole variety of
20,000 expected for five-day mortgage modification marathon – Palm Beach Interactive
Up to 20,000 desperate homeowners are expected to attend a five-day event beginning Thursday at the Palm Beach County Convention Center where loan modifications will be handled in fast-food fashion — open 24-hours, same-day service. By Tuesday, 7
D.C. delegation comments on Obama’s health care plan – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Feb. 23, 2010 6:18 p.m. | Washington – President Barack Obama’s latest health care proposal is receiving mixed reaction on Capitol Hill. Democrats see the measure as their final shot at passing a comprehensive health care reform measure this year
Evening Reading: Just How Bad Were Those Goldman CDOs – Wall Street Journal
Goldman and AIG…the saga continues: At the congressional hearing on AIG’s rescue last month, a five-page document itemizing the mortgage securities on which banks such as Goldman Sachs and Societe Generale had bought $62.1 billion in credit
Jumbo mortgage market is beginning to thaw – Los Angeles Times
Rates on jumbo mortgages — loans of more than $729,750 in counties with the highest-cost housing — shot up during the financial crisis as lenders and loan investors shunned anything tainted with even a whiff of higher risk. Rates on big mortgages
Rolfe Winkler – Reuters Blogs
You don’t keep paying for something that you own. From FirstAmerican Core Logic: …more than 11.3 million, or 24 percent, of all residential properties with mortgages were in negative equity at the end of the fourth quarter of 2009 , up from 10.7
Greek Debt Chief Faces Tough Task – Wall Street Journal
Petros Christodoulou has just started one of the least enviable jobs in European financial markets—persuading wary investors to buy Greek debt. A U.S.- and London-trained former bond trader, Mr. Christodoulou was last week named head of Greece’s
State ranks low in finishing stimulus weatherization work – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Through Feb. 16, the state’s program that helps low-income homeowners install new furnaces, freezers and insulation had finished 772 units out of the more than 20,600 planned stimulus-funded units, the report from the Inspector General of the U.S
Realtors give commercial real estate outlook – Tacoma News Tribune
WASHINGTON – Commercial real estate is expected to remain a drag on the U.S. economy through 2010 and beyond. “You do see stress in the market. We’ve seen delinquency rates increasing. We’ve seen by a whole variety of
20,000 expected for five-day mortgage modification marathon – Palm Beach Interactive
Up to 20,000 desperate homeowners are expected to attend a five-day event beginning Thursday at the Palm Beach County Convention Center where loan modifications will be handled in fast-food fashion — open 24-hours, same-day service. By Tuesday, 7