With Friends Like HUD…
BLOG VIEW: Sometimes, the truly interesting stories are the ones that evolve under the proverbial radar. A case in point involves the Department...
The Search For A CFPB Chief
BLOG VIEW: It's hard to believe that the enactment of the nation's most sweeping financial reform legislation in decades could take a backseat to,...
A Little Too Early For CRE Champagne
BLOG VIEW: Last week, Time magazine offered a headline that caused me to do a double take: 'Is Commercial Real Estate Bouncing Back?' Well,...
A Penthouse For Phil?
BLOG VIEW: I don't get creeped out that easily, but last week, something arrived in my mailbox that gave me cause to shudder. What...
The House That Andrew Cuomo Built
BLOG VIEW: Political junkies within our industry may wish to pay extra attention to this year's race for New York governor. Andrew Cuomo, the...
Eyeing Solutions For Unemployed Borrowers
BLOG VIEW: Months after a consensus was formed that unemployment and under-employment, and not exotic loan products, are underpinning the current foreclosure crisis, the...
Wanted: Good News About Reverse Mortgages
BLOG VIEW: Last week, the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) put out a press release with a rather amazing headline: 'Reverse Mortgage Could...
Would You Buy A House From Justin Bieber?
BLOG VIEW: Anyone who pays attention to popular culture will affirm that teen singing sensation Justin Bieber has the ability to sell CDs and...
Putting Financial Literacy Back Into The CRA Process
BLOG VIEW: After my column last week that questioned whether recent surveys on low to nonexistent savings by consumers and inadequate financial literacy by...
A Blended Approach To Default Management
BLOG VIEW: One of the main editorial topics featured in the upcoming July 2010 edition of Servicing Management is default outsourcing. In the issue,...
The Next Crisis Lurks In Empty Piggy Banks
BLOG VIEW: In an article that appears in the current edition of Secondary Marketing Executive, Alex J. Pollock, a resident fellow at the American...
The Miasma Of Strategic Default
BLOG VIEW: Most Americans agree: Walking away from your home is unacceptable. At least that was the conclusion drawn by a pair of recent...
Memories Of The Future
BLOG VIEW: The first time I visited the New York Hilton was for my high school graduation. Along with the other 1,000 students in...
So Many Bees, So Little Honey
BLOG VIEW: The last time I was in New York was on the afternoon of May 1, which was the day of the failed...
Do You Hear What I Hear?
BLOG VIEW: In the past month, a new chorus has begun to take shape, and its loud voices are singing a fatalistic tune:...
A New Tax On Big Banks?
BLOG VIEW: Last week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was back on Capitol Hill with yet another display of what appears to be an...
The Mortgage Movie Competition
BLOG VIEW: Today begins a new chapter in the history of filmmaking: a mortgage banking film festival. Shore Mortgage, based in Birmingham, Mich.,...
A Cup Of Cold Tea
BLOG VIEW: It is impossible to tap into any U.S. news outlet without encountering the in-your-face shenanigans of the Tea Party movement. Not...
Torpedoing Reform
BLOG VIEW: With each passing day, the political debate surrounding the proposed overhaul of financial regulation is starting to look more and more...
Mortgage Banking Meets Earth Day
BLOG VIEW: Did you know that this Thursday, April 22, is Earth Day? That annual celebration of protecting the environment first took place...