What To Know Before Refinancing Your Mortgage
By John Wasik March 16 (Reuters) - I got a letter from my bank the other day offering a streamlined refinancing deal for my current home mortg...
By John Wasik March 16 (Reuters) - I got a letter from my bank the other day offering a streamlined refinancing deal for my current home mortg...
Jerry Chautin | Posted 04.22.2012
Small-business owners are holding their collective breaths as the Obama Administration's proposed budget wends its way through the politically-charged Congress.
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 02.09.2012
The government's $25 billion settlement with five of the nation's largest banks could help up to one million homeowners. About $21.5 billion is earmar...
Reuters | Posted 04.09.2012
NEW YORK, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Applications for U.S. home mortgages jumped last week, fueled by increased demand for refinancing as interest rates fell...
David M. Abromowitz | Posted 04.07.2012
Saying millions of families should wait until the "market clears" is the modern equivalent of "let them eat cake." Clearing the market is an economist's term for letting the tidal wave of foreclosures continue.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.02.2012
Dave Dayen today flags an exchange between Fox News White House Correspondent Ed Henry and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, in which the former drives the...
Chris Birk | Posted 04.02.2012
Military borrowers continue to flock to the safety, security and unmatched buying power of VA loans in the wake of the subprime mortgage meltdown and ensuing credit crunch.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.27.2012
With no end in sight to the foreclosure crisis, a majority of Americans are calling on the government to do something about it. Fifty-eight percent...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 01.20.2012
WASHINGTON -- Days ahead of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, the White House on Friday unveiled a new web video and blog post mapp...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 01.20.2012
WASHINGTON -- When he steps before a bicameral gathering of Congress next Tuesday night to deliver his fourth State of the Union Address, President Ba...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 12.24.2011
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is introducing a new program on Monday designed to lower monthly mortgage payments for more troubled homeowners...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.24.2011
President Obama and White House officials announced a major change to a national home-refinancing plan Monday, in an effort to stimulate the economy a...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.05.2011
In what is only the latest instance of questionable mortgage practices coming to light, a new lawsuit claims that 13 banks and mortgage companies -- i...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.26.2011
Sometimes the numbers make sense for a refinance, but it's rarely ever solely about numbers, and it's never a "no-brainer."
Posted 10.03.2011
Applications for U.S. home mortgages rose last week as interest rates fell, an industry group said on Wednesday. The Mortgage Bankers Associati...
Posted 08.15.2011
Applications for home mortgages saw their biggest jump in three months last week, fueled by demand for refinancing as interest rates continued to ...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 06.19.2011
Ever since my wife and I were rejected for a home refinancing loan by our bank, which actually owns the house but kindly allows us to pay the mortgag...
Hilary Kramer | Posted 05.25.2011
The housing market in the U.S. still faces considerable pressure -- even two years into "an economic recovery" (albeit a jobless one). This is best ev...
Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011
We need to take back our politics, so that what is sensible is also possible. Maybe, just maybe, events in Madison and elsewhere are the beginning of that process.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.25.2011
Jamie Dimon President and CEO JPMorgan Chase Dear Mr. Dimon: I'm Jerry Zezima. The name probably doesn't mean much to you (it doesn't mean much to ...
Ron Gitter | Posted 05.25.2011
The one-two punch of higher interest rates and the inevitability of changes coming to Fannie and Freddie only further slow the process of the elusive real estate recovery.
Miami Herald | Toluse Olorunnipa | Posted 05.25.2011
All she wanted was $50,000 from the equity in her house to help pay the bills while looking for a job in nursing. What Imogene Hall got was a brutal l...
HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011
There's very little anyone can do to convince Americans to take out a mortgage. Mortgage interest rates are lower than they've been in at least 40 ye...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Bruce Kluger | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
Reuters | Posted 05.19.2012