Archives by Tag ' credit crisis '
Dec 6, 2008

Report: New Century’s GC Warned Managers of Subprime Danger Sue Reisinger Corporate Counsel March 31, 2008 Listening to its general counsel might well have saved New Century Financial Corp., once the nation’s second-largest subprime mortgage lender, from plunging into bankruptcy a year ago. That’s one lesson from a 581-page report filed Wednesday by Michael Missal.A […]

Nov 29, 2008

It’s along time since I wrote this piece on March 1, 2007 — before I even started the blog. I believed then as I do now that the safety of our nation, the soundness of our economy and the happiness and freedoms of our children and grandchildren depend entirely upon our actions today. In this […]

Jun 12, 2008

Housing Crisis Bankrupts Vallejo By Kent Anderson, Oregon Bankruptcy Attorney on Jun 11, 2008 in Bankruptcy Cases of Interest, Bankruptcy Legislation, General Bankruptcy Information The crisis caused by dramatic changes in the home lending markets has claimed a new victim.  This time it is not a bank or mortgage lender, it is instead a working class suburb of San Francisco that […]

May 30, 2008

People ask me, will they really settle? Of course the question is from borrowers and they are asking if they can actually do something about the millions of foreclosures, default cases and upside down equity cases totaling more than 10 million homes in the U.S. alone. The answer is yes, especially now — because the […]

May 26, 2008

There are plenty of people in the mortgage meltdown crisis, just like in a natural catastrophe who completely lack conscience or morality and who will tell you want you want to hear. Check it out, get references and if you are not sure of them, skip the “opportunity.” Real Estate Foreclosure Scams Lurking In Your […]

May 14, 2008

  Credit Crisis Over? — Not by a Long Shot   As you can imagine I get emails and comments from hundreds of people seeking help and whose houses are going into sale or foreclosure, most of whom are completely unaware that they have rights superior to the lender, if they can find someone to […]

Apr 25, 2008

  Bank earnings falling off, failures still a threat on the horizon.   Even with the phoney accounting rules allowed by the SEC and the FASB, the reported earnings of most banks are taking major hits. Hidden below the surface of this bad news is more bad news as the rate of delinquencies, foreclosures, evictions, […]

Apr 8, 2008

Trouble for American Consumer is building and the perfect storm threatens our tenuous economy.  DEEP RECESSION LOOMS WITHOUT FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN OUR POLITICS AND ECONOMIC POLICIES   The inevitable outcome was always the same: eventually we would hit the the top, like in any Ponzi scheme.  Consumers, who maxed out their credit cards, and maxed […]

Mar 16, 2008

I’ve been working on this problem for over a year.  No act of prescience or brilliance was required to know that if you pour water from a pitcher, eventually it will be empty even if you splash some more in from time to time. There isn’t enough money in the world to save us from […]

Mar 4, 2008

Here is Martin Wolf’s column:  Martin Wolf America’s economy risks mother of all meltdowns February 20, 2008, Financial Times Recently, Professor Roubini’s scenarios have been dire enough to make the flesh creep. But his thinking deserves to be taken seriously. He first predicted a US recession in July 2006*. At that time, his view was […]