posted by Bill Coppedge

 LOST YOUR JOB ??? - Website Resource to Assist Mortgage Professionals -  CAREER TRANSITION NETWORK -  A CHOOSE 2 LEAD PROJECT - a go-to portal to assist transitioning mortgage professionals with their career objectives.  This is the first step - free webinars, networking events, job information, opportunities to support entrepreneurial mortgage bankers, and more resources are all to follow.  Check it out!  Sign up to ensure you receive opportunity updates and notices of events. www.careertransitionnetwork.org   Thanks to Shirley Clark for creating this resource.
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our contributor RICHARD BITNER has an article devoted to his book at  NEWSWEEK 
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Interactive delinquency chart at WSJ  - cool check it out

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Latest Bank Headache: Home Equity Loans - “This product was meant to help people do construction on their house, [and] do debt consolidation — not to take out every last dollar of equity in their home to finance a different kind of lifestyle.” - Charles Scharf, head of J.P. Morgan’s retail business. - The Big Picture

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1.  What is Countrywide Really Worth? - Posted by Heidi Moore  - WSJ

2.  If you want a good barometer of the sentiment about the deal, http://www.mergerinvesting.com/stocks/CFC  calculates the merger arbitrage spread for the deal daily. - Comment by MergerArb
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How Financials Reach Out to Hispanics Online - by Compete -  seeking alpha

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Danske Financial crisis update - The aim of this publication is to provide an overview of current stories/issues in relation to the financial market crisis. We update this regularly, the last time being on February 28. - thanks Ira Artman - DanskeBank

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from Freddie Mac: Update on Conforming Jumbo Mortgages Purchases - Freddie Mac 

HUD has published the list of high cost Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and applic