Awesome Game  - you must play this - The Economy Killers - Want to blame someone for killing the economy? Vote on who is at fault. - thanks Ralph Parsons for finding this - Conde Nast Portfolio
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Wachovia Ditches Pick-A-Pay, Will Waive Prepayment Fees on Option ARMs - PAUL JACKSON - .. The move is […]

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Morgan Offer for Wachovia Makes Sense - Todd Sullivan - Value Plays - refers to stocks: BSC / JPM / STI / WB - seeking alpha
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Baby Boomers Face Massive Loss of Retirement Wealth Due to Housing Market Meltdown -  Plummeting house prices will leave millions of homeowners dependent on Social Security in their retirement -  […]

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VIDEO - Energy Saver Light Bulbs - they are not as great as you would hope - thanks Susan Kulakowski - youtube
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about slowing prepayment speeds - Mortgage market’s other pitfall asserts itself - Al Yoon   - Reuters
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Commodity speculation fees? - Can the Media Talk About Taxing Speculation? - Dean Baker -  simple way around this […]

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Change We Can Believe In Is All Around Us - Brian Wesbury - The last thing we need is intereference by either candidate. - WSJ.com 
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Over One Million Homes Now in Foreclosure - - The seasonally adjusted delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties stood at 6.35 percent of all loans outstanding at the […]

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Summary of famous people in foreclosure -  Luxury edition: Athletes, entertainers and even a politician face credit crises of their own  - SF Gate 
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In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we discuss a 20-year survey of risk-adjusted bank profitability.  Could it be that the retrograde “financial innovation” of the type beloved by Alan Greenspan, […]

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new white paper “The Subprime Lending Crisis: Causes and Effects of the Mortgage Meltdown” by Katalina M. Bianco, a banking law analyst for CCH …. 
1.  her interview with Phil Hall at MortgageOrb 
2.  View Printable Version of this White Paper at CCH Wolters Kluwer
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Sliced, Diced’ Mortgages More Likely to Default, Offit Says - Kathleen M. […]

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