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The Makeup Show NYC: Behind the Beauty

Karim Orange | Posted 05.30.2012

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Karim Orange

The Makeup Show New York 2012 presented by the Powder Group was like a real life "Alice In Wonderland" adventure for me. The experience bought me back to a simpler day when it was just about the love and passion for make-up.

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Ben Hallman

'I Don't Trust A Word They Say'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosure, Occ, SunTrust Bank, Foreclosure Review, Independent Foreclosure Review, Wells Fargo, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Business News

Bob Hale nearly lost his Concord, Mass., home to foreclosure in 2010 as a result of what he claims were bank errors. That would make him a prime ca...

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Loren Berlin

Government's 'Good News' For Defrauded Homeowners Questioned

HuffingtonPost.com | Loren Berlin | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Occ, Independent Foreclosure Review, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Mortgage Fraud, Compensation, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Business News

"If you faced foreclosure in 2009 or 2010, the government may have good news for you," reads new advertisements released by the federal government on ...

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GOP Congressman vs. Elizabeth Warren

The Baseline Scenario | Simon Johnson | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: Tom Miller, Elizabeth Warren, Occ, Shelley Moore Capito, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Cfpb, Gop, House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Department of Justice, Spencer Bachus, House Financial Services Committee, Republicans, Politics News

By Simon Johnson The Baseline Scenario Representative Spencer Bachus, Republican chair of the House Financial Services Committee, famously remarke...

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Why Republicans Hate Warren's CFPB But Love Another Bank Regulator

Stacy Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Occ, Dodd-Frank, Community Banks, Financial Reform, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Cfpb, Move Your Money, Banks, Financial Crisis, Spencer Bachus, Consumer Protection, Big Banks, Business News
Stacy Mitchell

What's really at issue in the fight over the CFPB is not how the agency is structured or how much power it will have, but whose interests it serves.

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Zach Carter

Top Republican On Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Bureau: 'I Don't Like Them'

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Congress, Occ, Neugebauer, Financial Reform, Wall Street Reform, Regulation, Obama, House, Wall Street, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Cfpb, Dugan, Gop, Banks, Jo Ann Emerson, Consumer Protection, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans have insisted that their proposals to force the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to fight for legislat...

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Zach Carter

Lawmakers Pushing Back Against Banks' Foreclosure-Settlement Complaints

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Housing Market, Waters, Occ, Housing, Sherrod Brown, Mortgage Serving, Mortgage Servicers, Economy, Foreclosure Fraud, Housing Crisis, Mortgages, Wall Street, Bailout, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Jpmorgan, Settlement, Cfpb, Foreclosure Deal, Banks, Jeff Merkley, Foreclosure, Kaptur, Brad Miller, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As bank executives push back against the terms of a foreclosure settlement with fees that may be as high as $20 billion, progressive leg...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Megabank Warns It May Be Punished Over Foreclosure Practices

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Occ, Wells Fargo, SunTrust Banks, Ally Financial, Bank of America, Foreclosure Fraud, Hsbc, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Business News, Foreclosure, Citigroup, Business News

UPDATE 7:00 PM: U.S. Bancorp, the nation's 10th-biggest lender by assets, also warned investors of impending penalties, its annual report shows. The...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Multi-Billion Dollar Mortgage Settlement Jeopardized?

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Occ, Fdic, Obama Foreclosure, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Foreclosure Fraud, Business News

The Obama administration is seeking to broker a deal that would have the nation's largest mortgage lenders agree to pay as much as $30 billion in fine...

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Mortgage Settlement Talks Plagued By Infighting Between Regulators, Prosecutors

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hud, Banks, Obama Administration, Occ, Foreclosure Ciris, Mortgage Settlement, Federal Financial Analytics, Mortgage Servicers, Cfpb, Business News

CHARLOTTE, N.C./WASHINGTON (By Joe Rauch and Dave Clarke) - U.S. regulators' efforts to settle with banks over improper mortgage foreclosures are ...

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Shahien Nasiripour

A QUICK FIX: Bank Regulator's Easy Solution May Hurt Homeowners

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Occ, Obama Foreclosures, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Foreclosure Fraud, Business News

The federal bank regulator overseeing the nation's largest lenders is pushing for a quick and modest settlement to the months-long federal and state p...

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Zach Carter

Fed Official Calls For Major Foreclosure Reforms

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Regualtion, Fed, Qualified Residential Mortgage, Occ, Central Bank, Sarah Raskin, John Walsh, Risk-Rentenion, Federal Reserve, Skin-in-the-Game, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgages, Mortgage, Risk Retention, Sarah Bloom Raskin, Treasury, Housing Crisis, Sheila Bair, Raskin, Qrm, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A top federal regulator told bankers on Friday that a major investigation into Wall Street's foreclosure system has revealed a "broken" ...

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Zach Carter

Key Senator Urges Obama To Push Foreclosure Relief

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate, State of the Union 2012, Obama Administration, Jeff Merkley, Obama State of the Union, Senate Democrats, State of the Union, Barack Obama, Foreclosures, Occ, Federal Reserve, Regulation, The Fed, Bair, Servicers, Foreclosure Crisis, Wall Street, Hamp, Banks, Tarp, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is urging President Barack Obama to pledge a new round of foreclosure relief during his State of the Union ad...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Citigroup Was On The Verge Of Failure, New Report Finds; Rescue Was Based On 'Gut Instinct'

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Occ, The Financial Fix, Fdic, Dodd-Frank, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Too Big to Fail, $C, Citgroup Rescue, Citibank Failure, Citigroup Bailout, Tim Geithner, Citibank, Financial Crisis, Sheila Bair, Sigtarp, Citigroup, Video, Business News

Citigroup, the nation's third-largest bank by assets, was on the verge of being closed by regulators the week of Nov. 24, 2008 as depositors rapidly w...

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Regulator Orders HSBC to Stop Financing High-Cost Tax Time Loans

Dory Rand | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Hsbc, H&R Block, Predatory Lending, Occ, Jackson Hewitt, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Tax Refund Anticipation Loans, Business News
Dory Rand

While increased regulatory scrutiny is needed in the short term, we look forward to the RAL product's obsolescence.

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Zach Carter

Fed CAVES On Foreclosure Regulations

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve has reversed its opposition to new rules reining in foreclosure abuses, and will support stronger regulations on the...

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Zach Carter

Democrats Push New Foreclosure Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Maxine Waters, Occ, Wall Street, House Democrats, Mortgage Servicers, Barney Frank, Deregulation, Federal Reserve, The Fed, Regulation, Foreclosure, Dodd-Frank, Democrats, Conyers, Brad Miller, Business News

Several key House Democrats are circulating a letter urging support for new regulations that would crack down on what critics say are rampant foreclos...

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Zach Carter

Fed BLOCKS New Foreclosure Rules, Throws Homeowners Under The Bus

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Fed, Foreclosure Crisis, Occ, Wall Street Reform, Bank Regulation, Regulation, The Fed, Federal Reserve, Foreclosure Rules, Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosure, Home Foreclosures, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Top policymakers at the Federal Reserve are fighting efforts to rein in widely reported bank abuses, sparking an inter-agency feud with ...

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Handcuffs for Wall Street, Not Happy-Talk

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citi, Sec, Recovery, Occ, Blankfein, Washington Mutual, Wall Street Prosecutions, Economy, Jobs, Obama, Wamu, Fraud, Financial Fraud, Ots, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Abacus, Wall Street, Chrystia Freeland, Lehman Brothers, Citibank, Washington Post, Indymac, Wall Street Fraud, Business News
Zach Carter

When you steal a lot of money, you go to jail. Obama doesn't just need tough talk for Wall Street, he needs to prosecute the frauds that were committed, and explain them to the American people.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Elizabeth Warren: GOP Reform Plan Is A Failure, Republicans Choosing Banks Over Families

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Occ, Mitch McConnell, The Financial Fix, Financial Reform, Wall Street Reform, Christopher Dodd, Cfpa, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Financial Crisis, Richard Shelby, Consumer Protection, Business News

It's time for senators -- especially the Republicans -- to square their upcoming votes on financial reform with their long-professed desire to protect...

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Larry Summers Is Lying About Big Banks

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Occ, Chase Bank, Wall Street Reform, Tbtf, Predatory Lending, Financial Reform, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Crisis, Larry Summers, Dodd, Obama, J.P. Morgan, Subprime, Too Big to Fail, Lawrence Summers, Mortgage Crisis, Business News
Zach Carter

Today's megabanks aren't just too-big-to-fail, they're too-big-to-regulate. If Democrats want to salvage their political credibility, they now have no choice now but to push to break up the banks.

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Shahien Nasiripour

Less Than One Percent Of Modified Mortgages In Obama Foreclosure Plan Involve Principal Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Foreclosure Crisis, Occ, Ots, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Office of Thrift Supervision, Hamp, Making Home Affordable, Home Affordable Modification Program, Mortgage Modification, Loan Modifications, Business News

This story was updated at 6:10 p.m. ET. As few as 0.1 percent of mortgage modifications initiated under the Obama administration's signature foreclos...

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Shahien Nasiripour

EXCLUSIVE: Two Leading House Dems Will Close $50 Trillion Loophole In Derivatives Reform Bills

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.18.2009

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The two House Democrats shepherding derivatives reform proposals through Congress will close an existing $50 trillion loophole for foreign currency co...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Senator Says Loophole In Derivatives Regulation Undermines Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.20.2009

Read More: Financial Crisis, Cantwell, Occ, Regulatory Reform, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Derivatives Reform, Collin Peterson, Barney Frank, Main Street, Bailout, Maria Cantwell, Wall Street, Business News

The effort to impose new restrictions on the financial system falls short of true reform if there's a gigantic loophole for foreign exchange derivativ...

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Banks Are Reluctant To Recognize Their Bad Deals

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tampa Bay, Occ, Banks, Distressed Assets, Naa, Apartments, Owners, Office of Comptroller of the Currency, Rtc, Office Buildings, Business News, Shopping Centers, Resolution Trust Corporation, Commercial Real Estate, Bank Regulators, Savings and Loans, Naiop, Icsc, Boma, Business News
Jerry Chautin

Once again, lenders are making believe that defaulted-loan problems will go away if they wait long enough. Industry jokesters call it "extend-and-pretend."

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