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This article from Barron’s Financial shows how the financial markets use insurance contracts to not only attempt to cover losses, but as profit centers themselves. Unfortunately, when you are using a captive insurer to do...

Click here for the article with Charts and Full Details: After booming the first half of this decade, U.S. housing activity has retrenched sharply. Single-family building permits have plunged 52 percent and existing-home sales...

According to this recent article about Countrywide, it appears that they have secured an extension to their much spoken of $11.5 billion USD line of credit. Apparently their strategies and corporate profile has carried them...

Well, I guess it’s just a show of how dependent our economy has become on “non-bank financing” that analysts are finally starting to draw solid historical parallels to classic bank runs, which are a very well...

aka waiting for September 18th, 2007 Let me explain! A term that recurs repeatedly in the day’s market analysis is the “Minsky moment” which is the time when, according to (link to full analysis) George Magnus...

Take a look at this MSNBC article regarding foreclosures in America. They suggest that 1 in 673 homes in all of the country is in foreclosure. I just have to say it. This is a classic case of markets behaving irrationally at the...

Hello to all of my faithful readers. No, I have not ignored you, simply been caught in the grinder that is moving offices! Without further adieu, I would like to post a story for all of those whose interests in structured...

As those in the industry know, combating fraud is a constant problem. When large sums of money are on the line, greed sometimes gets in the way of ethics, or even worse, complying with the law! There are real estate scams known...

After 5 long years of a bullish seller’s market, and a year of giant pause a framiliar creature is emerging from it’s hiding place and beginning to circle once again . . . . . . The Vultures are Back! Yes, with real...

This article by Newsweek, via MSNBC discusses the phenomenon that your favorite blogger has been noticing in Miami, Florida’s real estate market. Right now there is a real dichotomy between Internationally populated,...