Entries from July 2010

Mortgages and Housing: Specialty Servicing, Foreclosures and Mods, Low Rates, Britain Properties, Fed MBS Unwind, South Florida. is Hot, FHA Broke?

July 25th, 2010 · No Comments

  The Many Hats Of A Specialty Servicer – BY JOHN CLAPP – The relatively niched world of specialty servicing is set to explode. That is, assuming the transactions that serve as the space’s foundation – the buying and selling of distressed assets – continue to pick [...]

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Risk and Markets: Craigslist Mogul, Who Buys Treasuries, Sovereign Crisis, Goldman on Oil and Gold, Taleb on Convexity Risk, Matt Simmons, Gordon Long, Kyle Bass

July 25th, 2010 · No Comments

    how A 17-Year-Old Craigslist-Swapped An Old Phone For A Porsche – hattip John Cervarich – Jalopnik   ———— Will the private sector take up Treasuries?   – by Rebecca Wilder – Jim Hamilton used the Federal Reserve Flow [...]

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Government Machinations: Strategic Threats, China, Rate Curves, Labor Loves Warren, QE 2.0, FDIC $250k, Obama Reform, GSEs, Public Wages, Tax Tsunami, Easy Ben, GM=USA Buys Subprime

July 24th, 2010 · No Comments

  interesting slide show – Everything You Need To Know About America’s Strategic Threats For The Next 25 Years – Gus Lubin – … The US Joint Forces Command released a strategic guide to the next 25 years. It will be a period of "persistent conflict," [...]

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HAMP: “Continues to Struggle”

July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

MORTGAGE COMPLIANCE Yesterday, we provided an outline of the continuing downward trend of the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) program, as reported in the most recent June Report, issued on July 20, 2010. On July 21, 2010, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), stated [...]

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