To Our Clients, Colleagues and Friends,

Did you notice a few times last week that yields on mortgages were lower than on 30-year Treasury bonds? That shouldn’t be possible, but stranger things have happened. Like when Sonny Bono got elected to Congress.
We’re always surprised that people will pay a consultant to help them choose a hedging [...]

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To our Clients, Colleagues and Friends,

One of the many reasons to join the MBA is the terrific workshops they offer.  Their November event on loan officer compensation was sold out, and they’re doing a repeat on December 7 in Washington , D.C.   One workshop like this can be worth the entire cost of joining the [...]

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To our Clients, Colleagues and Friends,

Are you staying on top of your trailing docs?  Shoddy paperwork is a big part of the foreclosure mess, so this should remind you to keep close tabs on all documents.  You can come up with your own way of measuring them, but one way is to simply divide all [...]

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We received dozens and dozens of names of people you’d like to have over for dinner. Here are the more interesting ones.  The one in the lower right corner is a joke we slipped in just to see if you’re paying attention.  No one wanted to have her over for dinner.

Thomas Jefferson

Jesus Christ

George Washington

Oscar Wilde

Abe [...]

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