The funeral of reality tv star Jade Goody took place today, with thousands of people attending and watching on tv as she was laid to rest at St. John's Church in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. The funeral procession also...
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Prognostications, Pundits and Poo
Bill Hitchcock
We all know that we are in an “interesting” real estate environment. The fact is-It’s terrible. But where do we go from here?
Personally, I think prognostications from most pundits is purely poo. Most of the...
Grammy winning jazz musician Freddie Hubbard, whose style influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a...
""The Winter of 2008-2009 will prove to be the winter of global economic discontent that marks the rejection of the flawed ideology that unregulated global financial markets promote financial innovation, market efficiency, unhampered growth and endless prosperity while...
"WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)--As Capitol Hill remains under siege from all sides of America's faltering economy, pressure to stem the tide of foreclosures continued to make inroads as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac became the latest to join the foreclosure freeze movement.The...
Obama's Chief of Staff Pick a Freddie Mac Alum - Will the Media Notice? or Care? " He’s President-elect Barack Obama’s new chief of staff, according to various Nov. 6 media reports, but Rep. Rahm Emanuel,...
During the Clinton administration, the government required the financial industry to start expanding the frequency of mortgage loans to consumers who might not have qualified in the past.When George W. Bush was named president by the Supreme Court in December 2000, the stock...
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The US government's corporate bailout plan will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions, if not trillions, of dollars, calling some Democrats to ask the obvious; will a similar aid plan be put in place for bankrupt...
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain spoke out against the mass government bailouts being given to crumbling financial sector companies, in a speech given Friday, at a Republican rally in Minnesota.McCain...
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Obama calling himself an outsider and agent of change has CEO of Freddie Mac on his Pay Role. The fact is that he has received over 500,000 dollars from folks within Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Some...
"The financial meltdown on Wall Street is more than a cyclic correction brought on by a mismanaged business cycle. It is emblematic of a problem at the very foundation of the right wing economic philosophy that...
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"This week, several mortgage companies were placed under the control of government-backed enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And to provide the troubled borrowers with immediate relief, the Senate Banking...
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There will be no golden handshakes for the outgoing executives of struggling mortgage houses Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Monday. Under the terms of their...
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Since the government announced its takeover plan of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, stock markets in the United States and around the world have rallied and mortgage rates have dropped. But the latest turn in the...
According to the latest Capitol Hill estimates, the US government will run a near-record deficit of $407 billion this year. However the actual figure is likely to be much larger than this, because it is not taking into account the recent bailout of the nation's two biggest...
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