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Showing posts with label Wall Street Journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wall Street Journal. Show all posts
Monday, August 10, 2020

The Tax Breaks for Homes That Help You Now

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Homeowners need to know these income tax facts Home office and second homes deductions A column in the Wall Street Journal answers some time...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Is the bad news about the housing market coming to an end?

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Simon Constable writing in the Wall Street Journal thinks “There might finally be some good news this year about the nation's dismal ho...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

FDIC floats rules on when they’ll close financial firms

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A story by Deborah Solomon in the Wall Street Journal covers an FDIC proposal that will let financial creditors take the hit when a financia...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Next Fannie Mae

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From the Wall Street Journal: Much to their dismay, Americans learned last year that they “owned” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Well, meet the...
Sunday, July 5, 2009

It's "no money down" that got us into this mess

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Professor Stan Liebowitz, a professor of economics and director of the Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation in the mana...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

FannieMae asked to take more risk? We're not kidding.

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The Wall Street Journal leads off today with: Back when the housing mania was taking off, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank famously sa...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

How Democrats Make Millionaires

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I love an eye-grabbing headline and today's The Wall Street Journal Online does not disappoint with "How Democrats Make Millionaire...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Wall Street Journal on The Geithner Asset Play

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The Geithner Asset Play -At least it's an attempt to clean up bank balance sheets - leads off today's Wall Street Journal's edit...
Monday, March 2, 2009

Call Them Irresponsible - Rewarding those who put the 'liar' in liar loans

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The Wall Street Journal's editors weigh in on the president's mortgage foreclosure prevention program: Call Them Irresponsible - Rew...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

The 2% Solution-- A cure for what ails America?

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Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes would create a solution of 7% cocaine and 93% water for his drug habit. When America's economy...
Friday, February 13, 2009

A Plea - Don't Allow Mortgage Cramdown

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One of the proposals before Congress is to allow Bankruptcy Court judges to " cram down " first mortgages on residential real esta...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Wall Street Journal - The 'Guarantee' Morgue

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The 'Guarantee' Morgue - Good for bankers and politicians; bad for taxpayers. The Wall Street Journal weighs in on the "fanfar...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Leadership and Panics - TARP II and other reasons people are scared.

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From the Wall Street Journal, a comment on an apparent lack of leadership in the financial crisis. Leadership and Panic; TARP II and other r...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Bush Cleared on FannieMae and FreddieMac Debacle?

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According to a piece by Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal, "Mythmaking is in full swing as the Bush administration prepares to leave...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Foreclosure Follies: A rebuttal to the FDIC modification plan.

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The Wall Street Journal continues its theme on the inherent weakness of the FDIC's proposed mortgage bailout plan. We commented on the F...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

From the Wall Street Journal - Sheila Blair's Mortgage Miracle

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Our settlement department was busy a few years ago closing what are now called sub-prime mortgage loans. They varied from "interest onl...