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• Calculated Risk: Expected Mortgage Rates

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 160
  Using their calculator and a Ten Year Yield of 3.42%, we would expect the 30 year Freddie Mac fixed mortgage rate to be around 5.38%. Of course it is lower than expected - as it has been from most of the year - and some of the ...
  2 days ago

• Calculated Risk: MBA: Mortgage Refinance Applications Increase

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 160
  The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 8.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. ...
  2 days ago

• Calculated Risk: Feds Sack: MBS Purchases Lowered Mortgage Rates …

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 160
  This is significantly higher than my estimate of 35 to 50 bps and suggest mortgage rates might rise sharply next spring (the MBS purchase program is scheduled to conclude by the end of the first quarter of 2010). ...
  1 week ago

• Countdown to Christmas: Hubble Advent Calendar

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 657
  This is way cooler than those chocolate filled advent calendars that you can buy at the grocery store (although arguably less yummy): The Big Picture over at The Boston Globe is doing an advent calendar to count down the days until Christmas, only instead of opening a little door to nuggets of chocolate each day, ...
  1 week ago

• Which Way on the Healthcare Debate?

  
  Perfect Argument — Authority: 151
  So, the $848 billion dollar question is: In a nation beleaguered by war, recession and a nagging sense of slipping as the worlds protagonist, can we really afford to embark on universal healthcare? This weekend, the senate has voted to commence the debate. My objective here is to write an unvarnished article in layman ...
  1 week ago

• Calculated Risk: Thanksgiving Weekend Mortgage Litigation Roundup

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 160
  The bottom line in this case is that the trial judge spent several months trying to encourage IndyMac to modify a mortgage that was in foreclosure. The borrowers made a number of different offers, including offering to have other family ...
  1 week ago

• Url-y Riser - Smiling Whale, Favorite Free Apps and Weirdly Wonderful Turkeys

  
  Urlesque — Authority: 723
  Filed under: Url-y Riser A collection of nominees from the National Geographics International Photography Contest -- featuring our favorite, the smiling whale. Yes, hes most definitely smiling. [ The Big Picture ] Remember Evians rolleskating babies? The skating tots have gotten themselves themselves into ...
  2 weeks ago

• Calculated Risk: Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures by Period …

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 160
  The second graph provides the same data for prime fixed rate mortgages . Both the 30 and 60 day buckets are still at record levels, although the rate of increase has slowed
  3 weeks ago

• Calculated Risk: Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures by Period …

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 160
  The second graph provides the same data for prime fixed rate mortgages . Both the 30 and 60 day buckets are still at record levels, although the rate of increase has slowed. Since prime fixed rate mortgages account for about 2/3s of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Calculated Risk: U.K. Mortgage Lenders: Dont Treat Us like "Drug …

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 160
  Hitting back at the idea that lenders are “evil” and reckless, [Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) chief] Matthew Wyles said the industry should be allowed to treat its customers as adults, respecting their right to make their own ...
  3 weeks ago

• Photos of Martian landscapes

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 739
  The frequently excellent photo-blog The Big Picture at the Boston Globe has posted a collection of stunning and, well, alien-looking photos of the martian landscape .
  5 weeks ago

• Calculated Risk: SF Fed: Recent Developments in Mortgage Finance

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 160
  As the U.S. housing market has moved from boom in the middle of the decade to bust over the past two years, the sources of mortgage funding have changed dramatically. The government-sponsored enterprises—Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, ...
  6 weeks ago

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