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Shahien Nasiripour

Mortgage Bankers Post Huge Profits... Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Junk Fees, Mortgages, Mortgage Bankers Association, Profits, Guy Cecala, Inside Mortgage Finance, Home Buying, Financial Crisis, Refinancing, Home Ownership, Home Mortgage, Business News

Independent mortgage lenders may have hit their high point of the year as they booked an average profit of nearly $1,400 on each loan originated durin...

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Hustled

Libby Mitchell | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Refinancing, Fees, Citimortage, Business News
Libby Mitchell

Recently, my husband and I were taken for $465. Not by a guy named Lefty, or Madoff, but rather by a mortgage lender, who is probably your mortgage lender too: CitiMortgage.

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Chairman Bernanke, We Don't Believe It Is Over

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Economics, Mortgage Crisis, Media, Obama Health Care, Recession, Lending Crisis, Investment Banks, Wall Street, Rachel Maddow, Joe Wilson, Bernanke, Health Care Reform, Banks, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Refinancing, Economic Recovery, Ben Bernanke, Media News, Wall Street Bonuses, Tea Party, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

There is a reason that the American people are losing ObamaHope. It's not just unemployment. The reality cuts much deeper than the everyday lives of normal people.

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Government Faces Tough Decisions About How To Stabilize Mortgage Market

washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Finance, Fha, Freddie Mac, Banks, Mortgages, The Fed, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing Authority, Lending, Housing Crisis, Economy, Refinancing, Business News

Only one lender of consequence remains: the federal government, which undertook one of its earliest and most dramatic rescues of the financial crisis ...

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Mortgage Rates, Defaults Rise: Bernake's Plan Stumbles

bloomberg.com | Brian Louis and Oshrat Carmiel | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, Housing Prices, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Rates, Refinancing, Ben Bernanke, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's efforts to bring down borrowing costs to revive the housing market and help the economy are stalling. Mortg...

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Obama-Math Doesn't Add Up for Most Homeowners

Raphael Cushnir | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Refinancing, Freddy Mac, Fanny Mae, Barack Obama, Politics News
Raphael Cushnir

If your "investor" is Fanny, as it turns out, good loan terms are available without huge sums due at closing. But if your investor is Freddy, you're currently out of luck.

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Mortgage Applications Rise As Refinancing Jumps

Reuters | Julie Haviv | Posted 02.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Applications, Mortgages, Refinancing, Economy, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mortgage applications jumped in the first full week of 2009 as record low interest rates spurred the greatest demand for home ref...

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What Americans Can Do to Avoid a Depression

Dennis Paulaha | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mortgages, Money, Economy, Federal Government, Economic Crisis, Economic Stimulus, Economic Plans, Refinancing, Politics News
Dennis Paulaha

Saving people's homes while increasing consumer spending and solving the financial industry's credit crunch will stimulate the economy.

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KKR In Credit Crunch

New York Post | ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: KKR Financial Holdings, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Kkr, Credit Crunch, Refinancing, Henry Kravis, Business News

Even the barbarians didn't think the credit crisis would last this long. A firm affiliated with leveraged buyout giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.,...

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