More on Mortgage Delinquencies & Retail Spending
The latest bad meme to develop legs is the idea that strategic mortgage defaults are goosing retail sales. We looked at this last week in...
A Tale of Two Cities
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Yes it’s the 1st line of the Dickens classic “A Tale of Two...
The Return of Ben Stein ?
After spending several years writing money-losing columns that were lacking in any insight into Wall Street for the New York Times, Ben...
Farrell: Wall Street’s 8 Lobbying Goals
Paul Farrell gets his rant on, raging at the $400 million lobbyist effort Wall Street has put forth to kill financial reforms. He writes...
Bill Black’s eye-popping statement at House FinServ...
> Transcript & Video: Bill Black Testimony on Lehman Bankruptcy Jane Hamsher Tuesday April 20, 2010 2:28 pm FDL Contributor Bill...
Nothing like free money to boost sales
There is nothing like free money and maybe a softening of lending standards to get people to buy things again. Edmunds.com is reporting...
An Open Letter to Senators Reid and McConnell
Legislation currently under consideration in the Senate would not have prevented the crisis we just had. As such, it is unlikely to...