For all the headlines given to foreclosure affidavits and robo-signing virtually no one has mentioned the real point, the idea that the affidavits themselves may not prove loan ownership regardless of how they were signed.
Until progressives break with Obama's rosy perceptions, they will have nothing to offer as a retort to the tea-party faux populists who are effectively monopolizing the legitimate rage over the bailouts.
Paul Volcker, President Obama's former Federal Reserve chair who heads his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, recently nailed it in a series of blistering remarks on the sorry state of our economy.
While traveling in Europe, India and China in mid-August, I met political, business and media leaders as well as friends and family. Together we refle...
Thinking about buying a home? You might want to proceed cautiously. The housing market may continue to decline, potentially for at least three more ye...
Economically, there is precious little else to talk about, for if the housing market is not restored, we are in for one long, dreary period of economic stagnation at best, or a severe downturn and a society in dangerous turmoil.
The Obama administration on Tuesday will launch its most ambitious effort at reducing mortgage balances for homeowners who owe more than their homes a...
Just about every posting regarding the Obama mortgage modification program says it's a dud. Those on the left say not enough has been done, those on t...
WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. - It's a program designed by the Obama Administration to help people in these tough economic times keep their homes, but a Wheat Ri...
With real estate prices as low as they've been in years, those people and families that can afford it might be looking to capitalize on the market and...
A mentor once told me that the best way to determine if something is well written -- be it a book or movie or even an essay--is if it can be summed ...
Anna and Charlie Reynolds of St. George, Utah, were worried about losing their home to foreclosure last year. Then they got a lucky break--from an unl...
Should we really believe that 20 million people purchasing luxury goods such as jewels, fashion, yachts, private planes and lavish international travel will be a major boost to the U.S. economy! Come, on.
Along comes a federal housing agency to give our economy a little butt-kick into the abyss by thwarting an attractive funding mechanism for home energy retrofits and the jobs that come with them.
More than one in seven homeowners with loans in excess of a million dollars are seriously delinquent, according to data compiled for The New York Time...
Helen K. Meshin, who emigrated from Russia to New York in the mid-1990s, never envisioned being a stay-at-home mother, taking care of three children. ...
It was the Perry Mason moment in the unraveling of what was left of Goldman Sachs' reputation. Only in this case, it involved a grizzled former prosecutor, Sen. Carl Levin, rather than a genial defense attorney.
Now I am in the middle of raking leaves that fell last fall, which is called fall because you will fall into the leaves that fell in the fall and will not feel fine after you have fallen.
Wall Street has long forgotten how to spell "ethical" or "good," and replaced it with "compliant" and "legal."
The time has come to explain to investment banks what their responsibility and accountability are.