A couple of months ago I blogged about provisions that might help homeowners in what was then called “The Bailout Bill,” but was officially titled the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. Now that we have seen the second Bailout Bill, and who knows how many more will come down the pike, this [...]
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My daughters’ friend is a performer at the Magic Castle in Hollyweird. He has some pretty amazing ’slight-of-hand’ tricks. But there’s another performer who would like to perform on the ‘world stage’ and his minions are there to assist him. The Obama campaign is about to kickoff something called ‘Faith, Family & Values [...]
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I ask my readers to try and set aside the technological world which we live in for a few minutes, and consider what it might have been like to be on the hilltop in West Virginia in the 1940’s, as described below. I was able to tell this story, and its meaning to me, a decade ago to all [...]
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by Mark Silva They are the fiery watch-words of an increasingly combative and negative presidential campaign debate, the one that rivals John McCain and Barack Obama are bankrolling with their own campaign commercials in the most competitive states: “Dangerous… Not truthful… Hypocrite… Disrespectful… Not ready to lead.” Those are the warnings that [...]
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McCain: Guilty by association MSNBC’s Keith Obermann brings to light the associations McCain has had and maintains to this day. One of the arguments coming out of the McCain camp takes hacks at the character of Obama because of his connections to Rev. Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. A closer look at the basis of [...]
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House Finally Releases Plan for Carbon Cap and Trade Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have finally released their highly-anticipated draft legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions. Read this post » More recommended posts »From the Left The U.S. Navy Doesn’t “Save the Whales” [...]
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At least he didn’t say “That boy,” but he was just one word off. I heard it, and I saw it. I saw it first, actually, during the first debate when McCain refused to look Obama in the eye. I heard it again when that white Republican congressman [...]
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WASHINGTON — The homeowner assistance plan that Senator John McCain announced without detail in the presidential debate Tuesday night would allow millions of financially stretched Americans to refinance their mortgages with government … See the original post here: McCain Campaign Releases More Details On Mortgage Plan
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There are a couple items out there today that could indicate that the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and the credit crunch that resulted from it, are far from over. First, Felix Salmon makes note of this report about LIBOR rates: Increases in benchmark London interbank offered rates may boost homeowner defaults on resetting adjustable-rate [...]
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A distressed homeowner’s chances of being offered a meaningful loan restructuring, as opposed to demands for increased payments to make up past defaults, depends a lot on which mortgage servicing company they happen to be dealing with. … Read more: Aggressive Mortgage Mods Work Share and Enjoy:
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