60 Minutes: The Next Housing Shock
As more and more Americans face mortgage foreclosure, banks’ crucial ownership documents for the properties are often unclear and...
WaPo: Anticipating the Next Black Swan
My latest Washington Post column is out in the Sunday Business section. Regular readers will recognize some of the behavioral and...
How Much Damage Can Malicious HFT/Malware Cause?
Here is a question for the paranoics out there: Can we tell any difference between High frequency trading and cyberattacks? We have...
Update on Japan’s Nuclear Crisis
Washington’s Blog strives to provide real-time, well-researched and actionable information. George – the head writer at...
Craig Newmark Revealed
“Bloomberg Game Changers” profiles Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. This program features interviews with Newmark; David...
Judge: Bad Securitization = No Standing to Foreclose
Fascinating March 30 legal decision out of Alabama, in the case of Phyllis Horace vs. LaSalle Bank National Association et. el. The judge...
Follow the Money: From MERS to Fraudclosure
Even 60 Minutes seems to be sugarcoating the motivation for fraudclosure: “Banks so poorly handled documentation on millions of...
Two New Stingrays Discovered in Amazon
Wicked cool: Two new species of freshwater stingray have been discovered in the Amazon rain forest: Heliotrygon gomesi and Heliotrygon...
Congressman’s Wiener at the Congressional...
I bumped into Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) backstage at 30 Rock two weeks ago — I met him 20 years ago when he was running for...