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• Will the Fed let mortgage rates rise?

  
  Mortgage Insider — Authority: 578
  I’m seeing more news reports quoting people who think the Federal Reserve should, once again, extend its purchases of securities backed by mortgages issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Fed is supposed to stop by March 31. The latest comes from the Wall Street Journal quoting Federal Reserve Bank of St. ...
  2 hours ago

• Gold & Armageddon: What All Gold Investors MUST know (Pt. 3-A)

  
  Ethical Foreclosure Fortunes — Authority: 151
  your mind to another point of view. And if u haven’t thought threw the other side of the gold/dollar collapse issue, then you’re probably not that conscious of your own position and most likely not as secure of your own position as you might think. How much do you know about what factors are affecting the gold ...
  3 hours ago

• PIMCO’s Total Return Fund Sells Over $80 Billion Of Mortgage Securities To US Taxpayers Year-To-Date

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 498
  Zero Hedge Bill Gross’ PIMCO is selling mortgage securities like there is no tomorrow. In October, the Newport Beach firm’s Total Return Fund held the lowest amount of mortgages in recent (or distant) history: at 16% of the total $193 billion in fund total net assets, securities backed by the ...
  6 hours ago

• Do US CDS Anticipate An Increase In The Value Of The Dollar?

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 498
  Zero Hedge In the ongoing US bizarro economy, up is down, and economic weakness represents itself by an increase in the stock market, due to expectations of future liquidity injections and fiscal stimuli, further weakening the dollar. Yet as sovereign CDS has recently taken on more relevance once again, ...
  6 hours ago

• Are Fed MBS Purchases Really Holding Mortgage Rates Down?

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 498
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: This chart from Bloomberg shows the option-adjusted spread (OAS) on current coupon Ginnie Mae MBS, as calculated by Merrill Lynch ( BAC ). Spreads peaked about a year ago, just after the Fed began its quantitative easing program which ended up more than doubling the monetary ...
  6 hours ago

• If there is a second downturn like in the Great Depression it will be a doosey.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 155
  The government and the Fed can do no more than they already have, if not less. You can’t go lower than 0 fed funds rate, QE is already in place, the Federal Reserve is backstopping bonds which is just a form of unreported redivatives, and the government is already bushing the barrier on US Treasury bonds they can ...
  6 hours ago

• Should Geithner Resign?

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  So far the members of Congress who think the Treasury Secretary should go dont quite constitute a full-blown caucus, much less anything resembling a majority. But theyre expressing their opinions with increasing passion. Early this month Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell confessed that she was "not sure" why ...
  7 hours ago

• More Quantitative Easing by Fed has Markets Spooked About Inflation

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 569
  Well that was a short dollar rally. December gold futures hit $1,174 in intraday trading before settling down $1,164.80. That was still up nearly two percent. And gold is now up almost 32% on the year. Copper, silver, and oil were up as well. But then everything is up this year, at least since the markets started ...
  7 hours ago

• PIMCOs Total Return Fund Sells Over $80 Billion Of Mortgage Securities To US Taxpayers Year-To-Date

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Bill Gross PIMCO is selling mortgage securities like there is no tomorrow. In October, the Newport Beach firms Total Return Fund held the lowest amount of mortgages in recent (or distant) history: at 16% of the total $193 billion in fund total net assets, securities backed by the housing bubble (v1 and/or v2) ...
  7 hours ago

• Falling for Teasers and Not Squirreling Away Our Nuts

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  I like Ed Andrews’ New York Times article on how we’re running out of ways to cheaply finance our federal debt.  Ed explains: The White House estimates that the government will have to borrow about $3.5 trillion more over the next three years. On top of that, the Treasury has to refinance, or roll over, a ...
  8 hours ago

• Realtors’ Credit Union is a joke … on Realtors.

  
  Florida Real Estate — Authority: 132
  This is being sent to all Realtors from their Federal Credit Union. At a time when the fed-funds rate is hovering just above 0% at ¼% and the prime is 3 points higher at 3 ¼% they offer this garbage. Gee, ain’t it great to be a Realtor, your credit union treats you as if your I.Q. was a couple points above a ...
  9 hours ago

• Fast Money Recap: Mutual Fund Monday

  
  TheStreet.com — Authority: 560
  Pete Najarian said todays rally follows a predictable pattern of previous Mondays that has seen a large flow of money coming in at the beginning of the week.
  9 hours ago

• Oopsie: FedEx Ground Accident

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 155
  Sorry couldnt find a bigger image Local FedEx Ground guy having some issues.. Looks to be the SUV driver was trying to pass when Ground was turning left.. SUV must have been going pretty fast to shove under there. Story can be found here: http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/71744672.html
  11 hours ago

• Taxes on Short Sale, Loan Modification & Mortgage Foreclosure 3 Nov08 Cancellation of Debt Income

  
  Ethical Foreclosure Fortunes — Authority: 151
  Tax on 1099C, Cancellation of Debt Income; Short Sale, Loan Modification & Foreclosure. Exception; Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, Bankruptcy & Insolvency. Go To RealEstateMarketingThisWeek.com Cancellation of debt income reported to the IRS on form 1099 C So we talked about 20 million homeowners are ...
  12 hours ago

• Three Decades of Politics and Failed Policies at HUD

  
  Bernanke Panky News — Authority: 146
  "The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has long been plagued by scandals, mismanagement, and policy failures. Most recently, HUDs subsidies and failed oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped to inflate the housing bubble, which ultimately burst and cascaded into a major financial crisis. Given ...
  13 hours ago

• Three Decades of Politics and Failed Policies at HUD

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 170
  “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has long been plagued by scandals, mismanagement, and policy failures. Most recently, HUD’s subsidies and failed oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped to inflate the housing bubble, which ultimately burst and cascaded into a major financial crisis. ...
  13 hours ago

• Three Decades of Politics and Failed Policies at HUD

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 170
  “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has long been plagued by scandals, mismanagement, and policy failures. Most recently, HUD’s subsidies and failed oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped to inflate the housing bubble, which ultimately burst and cascaded into a major financial crisis. ...
  13 hours ago

• FOREX-U.S. dollar drops as Fed, ECB comments weigh

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  The U.S. dollar weakened broadly Monday, hitting a six-week low against the yen after a Federal Reserve official affirmed expectations U.S. interest rates would stay low for some time. A low Fed funds rate would limit returns on many U.S. investments, prompting investors to diversify out of the currency and seek ...
  13 hours ago

• Nuke Em, Duke Em Propaganda Machines - Goldman Attacks Fitch For Downgrading Mexico

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  As we pointed out previously , a Fitch downgrade of Mexico was only a matter of days (S&P - not so much, as the agency is back to its operational sweet spot in the middle of a Fed-enforced bubble). Sure enough, earlier today Fitch dropped Mexicos rating to BBB, citing “The global economic and financial crisis ...
  14 hours ago

• “Should Come as No Shock to Anyone”

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 170
  The big picture is this. There is most probably a second wave of mortgage defaults in the immediate future as a result of Alt-A and Option-ARM resets. Yet our capacity to deal with these losses has already been strained by the first round that largely ended in March… Increasingly, the Fed has decided to forgo the ...
  15 hours ago

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