Paul Ryan On Housing: Is He Serious Or Delirious?
BLOG VIEW: When it comes to Paul Ryan, the Republican candidate for vice president, there is good news and bad news regarding his...
Who’s Afraid Of The CFPB?
BLOG VIEW: On June 21, a lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., that challenged the constitutionality of the Consumer...
Message To The CFPB: First, Do No Harm
BLOG VIEW: (This week's Blog View is written by David Coster, author of Total Mortgage Services' Total Mortgage Blog. Phil Hall's regular blog...
Are There Clowns In Your C-Suite?
BLOG VIEW: You don't need to be an ichthyologist to know that a fish rots from the head down. And the distinctive piscine...
Edward DeMarco: Three Years And Counting
BLOG VIEW: This month marks Edward DeMarco's third anniversary as acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). Yes, I know that...
Obama And Romney Meet The Eminent Domain Gang
BLOG VIEW: One of the most peculiar controversies brewing today is the scheme by a few local governments in California to rewrite the...
Does Eric Holder Have A SCRA Lawsuit Allergy?
BLOG VIEW: Last week, MortgageOrb spotlighted a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealing problems in financial regulatory oversight of compliance...
Gambling And Losing At National Harbor
BLOG VIEW: It appears that the latest shtick in state government is the push for casinos as the commercial real estate answer to...
Affordable Housing’s ‘No Vacancy’ Sign
BLOG VIEW: Later this week, MortgageOrb's weekly E-Feature will focus on affordable housing problems within the multifamily sector. If you have not been...
When Will Romney Offer Policy Specifics?
BLOG VIEW: Election Day is four months away, and the Mitt Romney campaign appears to have settled into a bizarre strategy: Have the...
Is There A Case For Sheila Bair As Romney’s VP Choice?
BLOG VIEW: Over the past few weeks, the political media has been speculating endlessly over which person will be chosen to be Mitt...
A New Case Of Reefer Madness
BLOG VIEW: This week's column brings together two very different subjects - commercial real estate and medical marijuana - into a unique dilemma....
Another Andrew Cuomo Fiasco
BLOG VIEW: When we last checked in on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January, he was still displaying the outrageous sense of...
A Throat Lozenge For Richard Cordray?
BLOG VIEW: Can somebody please send a medical professional to Richard Cordray's office? It appears that the director of the Consumer Financial Protection...
Obama’s Aversion To Housing Equality
BLOG VIEW: During the past few weeks, President Obama has been at the center of a political dust storm after he voiced his...
Can The Lacey Act Be Used To Seize Homes?
BLOG VIEW: Imagine receiving a frantic telephone call from a borrower whose home was seized by federal law enforcement agents. The reason for...
When Headlines Create Headaches
BLOG VIEW: Will Rogers once famously remarked, 'All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for...
Hey, Where’s The Wrongful-Foreclosure Data?
BLOG VIEW: The housing market might be lacking many things, but it certainly has no shortage of data. Whether you tap the number...
Richard Cordray’s War On Mortgage Servicers
BLOG VIEW: If Richard Cordray were the navigator of the Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus would have discovered Spain. Why do I say this?...
FHFA Flip-Flopping: Reduced Principal Leads To Reduced Credibility
BLOG VIEW: In a March 25 interview with the Financial Times, Edward DeMarco, the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA),...