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Afternoon Quickie 02/25/2009

by phillenbrandFebruary 25, 2009 We're Reading

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A Bird’s Eye View - Homes for Sale vs Population Where They’re Located
The Big Picture - Bailout Hearings
Deal Journal - Mean Street: Mr. Obama, Please Return to Planet Earth
Mortgage Insider - Treasury unveils details of future bank bailouts
Calculated Risk - Stress Test House Price [...]

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Got a Mortgage or Credit Card? Don’t Pay Them

by phillenbrandJanuary 29, 2009 Bailout

Finally something that we can all get behind: Don’t pay your bills. It’s not my idea, although it has appeal. It’s the Fed’s and it’s the cornerstone of the new Homeownership Preservation Policy. To qualify for aid, the homeowner must be at least 60 days past due on his or her mortgage payments. (This program [...]

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Stimulus Could Provide Housing Tax Cuts

by phillenbrandJanuary 29, 2009 Bailout

All of this stimulus talk chafes me the wrong way, given that we don’t have $815 billion lying around to spread around the economy, we’re going to have to borrow it. I figure at some point, someone is going to call our tab, and that can’t mean anything good for the average consumer here in [...]

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As went housing prices, so went the vote

by Constantine von HoffmanNovember 6, 2008 Economy

A guest post from Constantine von Hoffman, veteran business journalist and author of the blog CollateralDamage.biz, a humorous look at marketing, business and his dog.
Popular opinion has it that Barack Obama won because he took some red states away from John McCain. Nonsense. Obama won all the red states. And McCain won all the black [...]

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