After reading Chief Financial Correspondent Floyd Norris' blog entry in The New York Times last week it's easy to assume that he's suffering from some journalistic version of Stockholm Syndrome, showing loyalty to the banks that have taken our economy hostage.

In his post, "Are Banks...

August seems to have been the month for scoldings at the Treasury Department. In August we felt the chilling winds of shame blowing across what was left of our economy when Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Michael Barr said, "I think we've been disappointed......

Richard Neiman, in his Congressional Oversight Panel report, called Treasury's goal for home loan modifications at 25,000 modifications a week "robust." By those calculations there should be close to 300,000 homeowners with loan modifications today. Truth is, they're about 298,000 short.

Despite the apparent failure, last week Ocwen...

Huffington Post ran a story last week about Ocwen Financial patting themselves on the back for the amount of delinquent mortgages they've modified using the Making Home Affordable plan. According to the article, Ocwen is responsible for 45 percent of all the successful loan modifications in...

My wife and I have been involved in negotiations with our loan servicer, Ocwen for over a year now. Long before the Obama administration and US Treasury Department introduced the Making Home Affordable plan. We're getting close to the end, but the end might very well mean...

I saw Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story earlier this week and it took me from pissed off to infuriated in the first 30 minutes.

After seeing the report on "Dead Peasant Policies" the word "peasant" has been rattling around in my head for days. Dead Peasant Policies...

For the first time since I can remember I went to bed with a smile with on my face last night. Why? Because Congress knocked down the Public Option despite public opinion polls showing that 76 percent of people in this country not only want a public option...

I've been torn over how I feel and have been feeling about Obama snubbing FOX during this past Sunday's Obama-thon.

I first heard about the White House not including FOX in his media blitz when White House spokesman Josh Earnest told ABC News that they "... figured Fox would rather...

There's a scene in Escape from Alcatraz in which Frank Morris, played by Clint Eastwood, and English, played by Paul Benjamin have a brief conversation about race.

English: Now you didn't sit down for two reasons, either you're scared or you just hate [black people].

Frank Morris: I'm...

I read the article yesterday about Ann Minch, the woman who made a video to Bank of America telling them to go screw themselves after they raised her interest rate to 30%.

I wonder if she realizes, as some of the commenters pointed out, that she's a leech, a...

A pimple on the ass of progress. That's what a White House senior advisor called Joe Wilson.

My father used to call me a pimple on the ass progress. But I was 10-years-old and running around at recess with a bunch of kids inappropriately calling other kids fags...

Norton, Massachusetts, was host to Deutsche Bank's annual golf tournament this year. Ironically Norton is in Barney Frank's 4th District. In February, Frank and close to a dozen other members of Congress sent a letter of outrage to Northern Bank in response to a similar event they sponsored...

If you're a blogger, own a blog, read a blog, or hate blogs you've probably heard the story by now about the no longer anonymous blogger, Rosemary Port, who is suing Google for $15 million for outing her to a model she called a "skank" on her blog, "Skanks in...

The wingnuts from the far right not only seem to be naive, or better yet selectively ignorant, when it comes to historical fact, but apparently have managed to develop super powers making them impervious to reality.

The teabaggers had their tea parties to protest rising taxes, claiming they were doing...