The Stock Market is Not the Economy - by Mike Cintolo - I’m going to start today’s post with a warning: Over the next three months, be prepared to see some of the worst economic data you’ve ever seen. … Now I’m going to continue this piece with another word of advice: You shouldn’t read […]
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MortgageNewsClips: Not the Economy, HUD on HECM, Good News?, ASF Says buy Out, Stabilization Isn’t Stimulus, Deflation Debate, Non-GSE Loan Mods, FDIC Plan, Sex - Lies - and Subprime Mortgages, Margin Call, MR Mortgage
November 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Ira Artman’s Sterling Slivers: One At A Time
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Professor Harry Markowitz shared the 1990 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with two other financial economists.
As The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted in their Oct 1990 press release:
“The first pioneering contribution in the field of financial economics was made in the 1950s by Harry Markowitz who developed a theory […]
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The Garrett, Watts Report (Monday, November 17, 2008)
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments
To Our Clients, Colleagues and Friends,
Did you know it’s been 51 years since Leave it to Beaver debuted on TV? And 38 years since Janis Joplin died? Jerry Mathers went to Cal , and we’d see him on campus occasionally. He seemed pretty normal. Janis didn’t. We met a few times back then, (she used […]
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MortgageNewsClips: Job Cuts, Team Obama List, Lockart on Foreclosure, Wachovia-Wells, Reverse Review, State of Bailout, Be Odious, Freddie Results, G-20, 2 Owners, 50bp Cut, 7 Plans, Teresa Ghilarducci
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Sunday: J.P. Morgan plans thousands of job cuts: report - Lay-offs also said coming from U.K.’s Wolseley, Experian - .. follows Citi, Goldman, Fidelity, BT - MarketWatch
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has a list - Team Obama - While we wait to find out who becomes Treasury Secretary, here’s what Obama’s economic advisory board might say about some more specific […]
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Ira Artman’s Sterling Slivers: Rollback
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Source: WikiMedia Commons, Ben Campbell Steamboat, circa 1855.
Here’s a silly question. When the Chairman of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors and the Secretary of the Treasury speak, do their colleagues listen?
I don’t know. But if I tell you why I’m confused, then perhaps you’ll be able to tell me where I ran […]
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MortgageNewsClips: Over 60, Fraud, Bill Conerly, Euro Regulators, Nouriel Roubini, GE Bailout, ASF on Mods, HUD and RESPA, DeKaser, NAHB on Recession, Readers Say, IR Risk
November 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Americans Over 60 Call Today’s Economic Conditions The Worst They’ve Ever Experienced - John Yedinak - According to the results of a recent poll from the MetLife Mature Market Institute, more than 50% of American’s over the age of 60 are calling today’s economic conditions the worst they have ever experienced. - Reverse Mortgage Daily
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