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DeMarco Speaks! (With Closed Captioning for the Mortgage-Impaired)

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Fhfa, Freddie Mac, Tim Geithner, Hamp, Fannie Mae, Harp, Principal Writedowns, Edward Demarco, Shaun Donovan, Foreclosures, Foreclosure Crisis, Financial Crisis, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Ed DeMarco, Mortgage Crisis, Politics News

DeMarco's still an unelected ideologue with too much power, and he still needs to go. But yesterday, he finally spoke up. To anyone with the right political or emotional closed-captioning device the message was loud and clear: Don't rush me, Mr. President -- and find yourself another fall guy.

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Banks Profitting Off Government Program Aimed At Struggling Borrowers

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.29.2012

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Perhaps the government's homeowner assistance program should be renamed the bank assistance program. Big banks have profited from HARP 2.0, the gov...

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President Obama's New Financial Crimes Team Has Bank Ties

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Foreclosures, Harp, Jared Bernstein, Obama, AG Settlement, Foreclosure Fraud, Financial Fraud, Video, Tbtf, Wall Street, Sotu, Banks, Khuzami, State of the Union, Schneiderman, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama vowed during Tuesday's State of the Union Address to establish a new financial crimes unit dedicated to investiga...

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Trulia's Real Estate Crystal Ball for 2012

Jed Kolko | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Boston, Foreclosures, Housing Market, San Jose, Rochester, Austin, Fannie Mae, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Mortgages, Houston, Freddie Mac, Construction, Foreclosure, Harp, Business News

My crystal ball is never as crystal-clear as I'd like, but I do think that we can expect a gradual economic recovery to move the housing market a few steps back toward normal in 2012.

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Fannie, Freddie To Cut Lenders' Risk To Boost Refinancing Program

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Video, Freddie Mac, Fannie Freddie, Home Affordable Refinancing Program, Mortgage Crisis, Business News, Fannie Freddie Harp, Fannie Mae, Harp, Housing Crisis, Business News

Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB), the largest sources of U.S. housing finance, both said on Tuesday they would relieve lenders from ...

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Voters With Housing Woes Giving Up On Politicians

AP | By JERI CLAUSING | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Home Affordable Refinance Program, Obama Mortgage Plan, Video, Obama Housing Plan, Obama Economic Plan, Foreclosure-Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Harp, Barack-Obama, Obama Harp, Barack Obama, Housing Crisis, Politics News

MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- Like just about everyone in the Phoenix area, Jen Pollock has lost several neighbors to foreclosure and short sales. And, like hun...

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New Obama Foreclosure Plan Helps Banks At Taxpayers' Expense

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Housing, Wall Street, Economy, Home Affordable Refinancing Program, Banks, Jobs, Harp, Refinancing, Foreclosure, Obama, Refinance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is introducing a new program on Monday designed to lower monthly mortgage payments for more troubled homeowners...

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Medication for Middle-Class Mortgage Mania

Adam Levin | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Gse Mortgages, Freddie Mac, Subprime Mortgages, Bailout, Mortgage Modification, Home Affordable Modification Program, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Harp, Fannie Mae, Real Estate Bubble, Foreclosure, Real Estate, Housing Bubble, Obama, Adam Levine, Columbia Business School, Business News

These are extraordinary times and extraordinary times require public and private sector utilization of extraordinary measures to solve societal issues like the housing crisis. This issue cannot be properly addressed piecemeal.

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Making Wall Street Face The Music: Enforcing the Mandate to Affirmatively Further Fair Housing

Lisa Rice | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics News, Politics, Racial Equity, Home Affordable Modification Program, Housing, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Tarp, Barack Obama, Fair Housing, Department of Treasury, Economy, Harp, Business News

The financial services industry must take steps to meet its fair housing obligations. In the past, the industry's policies and practices have worked against fair housing achievements, promoting residential segregation.

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