The Department of Treasury yesterday took a critical step that many of us have been calling for. But just as critical are the steps that Treasury did not take.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.21.2009 | Business
The securitization of mortgage loans has been blamed for helping cause the financial crisis -- and now it seems to be complicating recovery efforts. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.18.2009 | Business
Foreclosure prevention efforts need to become vastly more effective or housing prices will resume their tumble, according to a new report by Credit Su...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business
To the extent that Morgan Stanley is leading by example, the securities colossus is sending an unlikely message to underwater homeowners: Walk away. ...
Rohit Chopra | Posted 12.16.2009 | Business
Tens of thousands of American families may remember Christmas of 2009 as the last time they'll spend a holiday in a home they own. Yet 2010 might not look much prettier.
Richard Zombeck | Posted 12.14.2009 | Business
Reporters, journalists, and correspondents ideally report all sides of a story...When a reporter panders to the industry they are covering they do a disservice to the public that turns to them for the truth.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.09.2009 | Business
This story has been updated Add Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor-turned-crusader for Main Street and the middle class, to the growing list...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.17.2009 | Business
A revision to the House financial reform bill adds $3 billion in federal aid to help unemployed people facing foreclosure and $1 billion to fight urba...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business
Just how badly is President Obama's $75 billion foreclosure program working out? Consider these newly-released numbers: Out of every 100 homeowners wh...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair indicated Thursday that she is exploring the idea of reducing the principal on as much as $45 billion in mortgages her agenc...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
Its signature foreclosure-prevention plan having definitively failed to actually help very many homeowners, the Obama administration today announced ...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Democrats in Congress want to use unspent TARP funds to support homeowners and struggling workers, according to The Hill. More than half of the Democ...
McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
A Huffington Post analysis of recent mortgage-modification data shows that even those relatively few homeowners fortunate enough to renegotiate their ...
Wall Street Journal | M.P. McQueen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
At least two home insurers in Florida have begun dropping policyholders who filed claims for property damage linked to drywall imported from China. D...
Washington Post | Renae Merle | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
Bank of America employees are reminded every day of how far they still have to go. Just outside the elevators of their vast third-floor command center...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
While the Obama administration and reporters trumpet the fact that the administration is about a month early in reaching its stated goal of modifying ...
David M. Abromowitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
Four out of five buyers were handed $8,000 by other taxpayers for a purchase they would have made anyway. The Obama administration could do better by targeting the credit to people who need it.
McClatchy Newspapers | Chris Adams | Posted 10.04.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- The federal government is engaged in a massive mortgage modification program that's on track to send billions in tax dollars to many of ...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
My trash themed take-away at the end of my car trip? Not all that litters is old, nor is all garbage created equal.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business
First, minorities were disproportionately steered by lenders into subprime loans. Now there's news that they're disproportionately being denied when t...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Since Labor Day passed, I have felt less like a real estate lawyer and more like a character actor in an awful horror movie.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
Modern-day home mortgages have been so sliced and diced by rapacious financiers that some homeowners are successfully delaying -- or even blocking -- ...
Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
Our perceptions of single people and their place in society have not caught up with the realities. How well do you know your single people? Take this quiz.
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
A former client sadly related that her home is "worth less than $600,000 and we owe close to $800,000. I can't sleep. I can't eat. I can't believe what I've lost."
Richard H. Neiman | Posted 12.24.2009 | Politics