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NY Times Writer and His Mortgage Woes

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Mortgage, Subprime Mortgages, Megan McArdle, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Oprah, Financial Crisis, Financial Journalism, Edmund Andrews, Media, Foreclosure, Foreclosure News, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

It does make you wonder: What would this story read like if his wife wrote it? And I'm not convinced that Andrews' airing of his dirty laundry is such an act of bravery.

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Bankrolled But Bankrupt: The Senate Fails Homeowners Again

Harry Moroz | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage, Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan, Foreclosure Crisis, Helping Families Save Their Homes, Bankruptcy, Senator Dick Durbin, Housing Crisis, Senate, Financial Crisis, Business News
Harry Moroz

The Senate had an opportunity to address the foreclosure crisis yesterday by adopting the Helping Families Save Their Homes in Bankruptcy Amendment. They balked.

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Homeowners, Don't Get Left out in the Cold!

Iris Martin | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Fraud, Attorney, Mortgage, Economy, Homeless, Homeowners, Foreclosure, Iris Martin, Mortgage Wars, Business News
Iris Martin

Homeless homeowners: Pull yourself off the couch, start reviewing those dastardly closing documents, get your loan audited and hire a qualified attorney.

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Healing All Homeowners

Iris Martin | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage, Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Global Economy, Wall Street, Mortgage Wars, Barack Obama, Treasury, Business News
Iris Martin

We will make them care. You will stay in your home. There is light at the end of the tunnel and you will prevail. Judges all over the country are on your side.

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Homeowner, Don't Let the Wolf in Your Door!

Iris Martin | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage, Lending, Homeowner, Foreclosure, Mortgage Wars, Nking Crisis, Lenders, Loans, Business News
Iris Martin

Foreclosure firms are so used to actions just going through unopposed. Now people are paying attention and pointing out the gaps.

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"We were trained to mislead borrowers"

Adam Lioz | Posted 04.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bankruptcy, Subprime Mortgages, Mortgage, Brave New Films, Progressive Future, Housing Crisis, Cram Down, Judicial Modification, Obama Housing Plan, Mortgage Bankers Association, Politics News
Adam Lioz

One every 13 seconds. That's how many families are losing their homes to foreclosure. More than 8 million families are at risk. And, this is no...

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Editorial: Obama's Housing Plan "Won't Fix The Problem"

New York Times | JOHN D. GEANAKOPLOS and SUSAN P. KONIAK | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Housing Crisis, Mortgages, Housing Market, Mortgage, Subprime Mortgages, Obama Housing Plan, Obama Housing, Mortgage Crisis, Barack Obama, Housing Crisis, Business News

TO stanch the hemorrhage of foreclosures, we don't need another bailout. What we need is a fix -- and the wisdom to see what is in our own self-intere...

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The Simplest Plan For Helping Homeowners

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 03.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage, Business News Bailout, Geithner Bank Bailout, President Obama, Defunct Mortgages, Recession, Bailout, Business, Bailout Plan, Obama Stimulus, Home Foreclosures, Politics News, Economic Stimulus Package, Wall Street, Bank Bailout, Stimulus Package, Foreclosures, Homeowners, Geithner Bailout, Capitalism, Treasury Secretary, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Foreclosure, Business News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

By offering short-term loans, the government would be using taxpayer money wisely to stimulate banks to reform their lending practices.

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Your Voices: Obama's Speech Just Miles From Home Of HuffPost Reader Facing Foreclosure

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Queen Creek, Huffposters, Mortgage, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, President Obama, Foreclosure Relief, Forclosure Relief, Obama, Foreclosure Watch, Dispatches From the Displaced, Matthew Palevsky Connie, Housing Crisis, Barack Obama, Home Foreclosure, Offthebus, Politics News

With 10,000 Americans going into foreclosure everyday, the housing crisis has produced millions of heartbreaking stories across the country. Earlier t...

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No Tough Love for Wall Street

Robert Scheer | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Scheer, Timothy Geithner, Mortgage, Barack Obama, Bailout, Wall Street, Lawrence Summers, Treasury, Financial Crisis, Politics News
Robert Scheer

For all the brave talk about transparency and accountability Geithner gave the swindlers who got us into this mess yet another blank check to buy up the "toxic assets" they gleefully created.

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Open Letter to My Mortgage Companies

Francine Hardaway | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Citibank, Crisis, Mortgage, Lehmann Brothers, Aurora Loan Services, Tarp, TARP Money, Money, Economy, Economic Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Credit Crisis, Arizona, Credit Crunch, Subprime Mortgages, Lehman Brothers, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Subprime Mortage Crisis, Business News
Francine Hardaway

No, I don't want to move in with my daughters. I want to ask you to re-finance my mortgage at the current value of my house at a 4.2% rate, like everyone in Congress is suggesting.

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Weekly Audit: Stimulus Stagnation Economy NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Democrat, Bankruptcy, Mortgage, Recovery Package, Barack Obama, Loans, Tax Cuts, Republican, Marty Feldstein, Newsladder, Bipartisan, Stimulus, Economy NewsLadder, Recession, Business News
The Media Consortium

One of the left's major problems with the stimulus package: the corporate "net operating loss carryback" giveaway.

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What I Gained by Losing in Madoff

Geneen Roth | Posted 02.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Money Loss, Investing, Personal Finances, Mortgage, Madoff, Economy, Fifty Billion, Coping With Loss, Loss, Finances, Living News
Geneen Roth

I wish I could say I had reservations about Madoff before The Call, but I did not. Besides, everything about which I "knew better"--stocks, advisors, real estate--was also disastrous.

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Hi My Name is America and I'm a Credit Addict: 12-Step Program for the Financial Crisis

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Debt, Recovery, Hank Paulson, Economy, Barney Frank, Congress, Obama, Mortgage Crisis, Credit Cards, 12-Step, Mortgage, Credit, Unemployment, Financial Crisis, Banks, Economic Recovery, Business News
Hoyt Hilsman

In light of all the six-step, eight-step and ten-step proposals floating around Washington, I thought I'd offer the following twelve-step program for recovery from the financial crisis.

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A Spiritual Perspective on the Economic Meltdown

Gary Zukav | Posted 01.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage, Authentic Power, Responsibility, Money, Economy, Soul, Financial Crisis, Spirituality, Recession, Business News
Gary Zukav

The global economic recession of 2008 did not begin with events that occurred in 2008 but it was triggered by some of them. The most easy to identify...

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Mortgage Re-Default Rates. Be Scared. Be Very Scared.

Peter Schwartz | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage, Treasury, Timothy Geithner, Default, Unemployment, Dugan, Business News
Peter Schwartz

Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan spoke before the 3rd Annual National Housing Forum of the Treasury's Office of Thrift Supervision today. He ...

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Record 1 In 10 Homeowners In Serious Mortgage Trouble

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 01.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Mortgage, Home Ownership, Home Owners, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON — A record one in 10 American homeowners with a mortgage were either at least a month behind on their payments or in foreclosure at t...

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Recession: We're All in This Together

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 01.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Unemployment, Mortgage, Children, Default, Upside Down, Us Financial Crisis, Foreclosure, Under Water, Recession, Living News
Olivia Rosewood

My circle of friends used to be all about playdates and family barbecues. Now our conversations inevitably turn survival: Chapter 13, employment, foreclosures, how to make your lender listen.

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Change We Can Bank On

Robert Scheer | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Phil Gramm, Henry Paulson, Mortgage, Fdic, Barack Obama, Economy, Lawrence Summers, Foreclosure, Timothy Geithner, Pornography of Power, Robert Rubin, Sheila Bair, Barney Frank, Treasury Secretary, Obama Cabinet, Obama's Cabinet, Alan Greenspan, Politics News
Robert Scheer

This is not change we can believe in -- not if Robert Rubin or his protégé, Lawrence Summers, get to call the shots on the economy in Obama's incoming administration.

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US foreclosure filings up 71 percent in 3Q

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 11.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Debt, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosure Rate, Business News

WASHINGTON — The number of homeowners ensnared in the foreclosure crisis grew by more than 70 percent in the third quarter of this year compared...

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It's the Cash Flow, Stupid

Ike Eze | Posted 11.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Cash Flow, Credit Crisis, Mortgage, Bailout, Housing Crisis, Arm, Business News
Ike Eze

Over the next year or so, almost one trillion dollars could be injected into the banking and financial system. It almost seems like play money. Millio...

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26 Days Out: Pay No Attention to the Embarrassingly Horrible Economic Plan Behind the Curtain

Jesse Lee | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business

Read More: John McCain, Corruption, Mortgage, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Banking Crisis, David Frum, Taxpayers, Attack Ads, Business News
Jesse Lee

McCain and his campaign spent Wednesday boasting about his latest big, bold, erratic econonomic plan. Then something happened - everybody looked at it and realized it was awful.

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Can't Sell That House!

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Seller, Auction, House, Msnbc, Mortgage, Economy, Rent, Living News
Roseanne Colletti

Can't Sell That House! If someone tells you a "seller carryback" is a good idea--and I heard it on the radio the other day--run screaming from t...

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Seth Colter Walls

In Debate, McCain Touted Mortgage Plan Already Proposed By Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Mortgage Crisis, John McCain, Mortgage, McCain Mortgage Plan, Barack Obama, Politics News

It was the first question of the evening: how to turn the economy around and help those ensnared in the housing crisis. And in John McCain's first ans...

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Boston Tea Party, 2008

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Phil Gramm, Goldman Sachs, Economy, Homeowner, Robert Rubin, Banking Industry, Republican Party, Lou Dobbs, Henry Paulson, Mortgage, Barack Obama, Bailout, Boston Tea Party, Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, Deregulation, Pornography of Power, Newt Gingrich, Wall Street, Citigroup, Politics News
Robert Scheer

How dare you throw that tea into Boston Harbor! Such is the anti-democratic arrogance of telling us if we don't instantly give Wall Street $700 billion, then we are destroying America.

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