Entries from February 2010

Governments and Politics: NY Sales Tax Receipts, Sovereign Defaults, Discount Rate Hike, Counting GSE Debt, FDIC, Ending Tax Exempt Bonds, Paulson on GSE Restructuring

February 25th, 2010 · No Comments

  New York Sales Tax Receipts In Unprecedented Collapse – Joe Weisenthal – It’s a good thing Wall Street bonuses rebounded in 2009 because otherwise the State of New York would be totally screwed.  Yesterday the Comptroller released its survey of the state’s sales tax receipts [...]

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Tags: Mortgage Market

Commercial update; Freddie’s results, News from Wells & USB; Economic news push rates down

February 25th, 2010 · No Comments

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A copy of the first issue of Superman comics was sold for one million dollars. The copy originally sold for ten cents in 1938. Someone said that if that same dime had been invested in General Motors stock in 1938, it would be worth at least a quarter.

What are brokers and reps saying out there? [...]

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Tags: Commentary · Mortgage Market · Rob Chrisman

Chicago – Vienna Beef’s Hot Dog University

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments

Chicago has the best hot dogs in the world! – BC    <<< Click & Watch     Aspiring hot-dog-cart entrepreneurs learn the science of steaming a bun at Vienna Beef’s Hot Dog University – Crain’s Chicago Business – has text and video PS – this is my [...]

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Tags: Mortgage Market

Housing Related: White House Plan, China, 6 Million Homeowners, Fewer Falling Behind, Property Value Survey

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments

  has a list – White House Considering New Steps to Delay Home Foreclosures: Sources – By Peter Barnes – FOXBusiness ———— The Building Bubble in China – By Michael Forsythe and Kevin Hamlin – Much of China’s stimulus money [...]

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Tags: Mortgage Market