Author: NULL

On Tuesday, the United States goverment and the nation’s fourth largest lender, Citigroup, announced help for homeowners who are struggling in the nation’s mortgage crisis.The Federal Housing Finance Agency, which...

Yes, I think it may be.For those who are casual traders, this type of market timing opportunity is worth taking a look at.Why, even Warren Buffet recently bought back into the market!He knows that you can never time the market...

Some intrepid InTrade.com predictions market user added a predictions category for the next Secretary of Treasury of the USA.  It’s a great way to see what the market thinks of who the most powerful member...

In the article Volatile Mortgage Rates to Persist Until Year-End, Analyst Says, Alexis Leondis discusses some of the effects of a rough month for mortgage interest rates, which has had up to 5% daily and 10% weekly changes...

Think this is Countrywide’s first finest effort to stem the tide of foreclosures, and only about a year too late. Still for a major piece of legislation to spur actual action 5 months later by the largest player in the...

Fragile Hank is my new website. It’s got Fragile Hank t-shirts, buttons, posters and dart board covers. Ok, I’m frustrated and wondering when the government is going to come along and bail out every private business...

Updated 11/10/2008 For all those financial company bears in the market place, there’s an old regulator’s tool, born in the wild west during the 80’s which might shed some light on the health of banks large and...

Updated 11/10/2008 Let the unintended consequences begin! This type of action caused major investor lawsuits in the 1980s in the wake of the S&L scandals,and will surely cause more headaches in the next few years, than it...

For all of you avid blog readers out there, this topic was covered about Hyman Minsky, and the developing push towards a “Minsky Moment” last year, but oddly, I am going to say that last year’s events did not...

It’s not often that a pundit columnist, who is most known for his comedic game show on cable, and random cameo roles in movies commands so much respect in the realm of economics, but that just means that there’s only...