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Posted on: Friday, March 5, 2010
Spring Recovery?
Spring Recovery?

Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in February the economy lost 36,000 jobs, an increase of 10,000 compared to January, yet the nation’s unemployment rate stayed steady at 9.7%

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Posted on: Friday, February 26, 2010
Home Sales Stall; CitiMortgage Forclosure Option
Home Sales Stall; CitiMortgage Forclosure Option

Continued weakness in the housing market has caused CitiMortgage, one of the nation’s biggest home loan servicers to rethink its foreclosure prevention strategy.

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Posted on: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Economic Snapshot
Economic Snapshot

Continued unemployment is seen to be the cause of the drop in consumer confidence, Twenty thousand Americans lost their jobs in January, despite a marginal easing of the unemployment rate to 9.7%.

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Posted on: Friday, January 29, 2010
State of the Union
State of the Union

“The worst of the storm has passed, but the devastation remains. One in 10 Americans still cannot find work. Many businesses have shuttered. Home values have declined.”

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Posted on: Friday, January 22, 2010
Reining in the Banks
Reining in the Banks

We simply cannot accept a system in which hedge funds or private equity firms inside banks can place huge, risky bets that are subsidized by taxpayers

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Posted on: Friday, January 8, 2010
Rough Road Ahead
Rough Road Ahead

Although the final figures are not in, expect a record number of foreclosures again for 2009. In states that have revamped their foreclosure laws by mandating changes like lender borrower mediation, the trend has slowed significantly

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Posted on: Friday, January 1, 2010
Happy New Year
Happy New Year

When we look back on 2009, we see a year where missteps along the way could have plunged the world into another Great Depression. Picture a traditionalist like Herbert Hoover in charge. AIG, Citicorp, Bank of America, General Motors and Chrysler would have been left to fail. Millions more would now be out of work. [...]

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Optimism, Albeit Guarded
Optimism, Albeit Guarded

As 2009 winds down, two pieces of good news released yesterday are significant for homeowners. The first is that for the fifth consecutive month home prices rose in October, according to the Standard and Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index. The second is that according to the Conference Board, consumer confidence has edged back up to [...]

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Posted on: Friday, December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas

We have a lot to do in the coming year to regain lost ground, but until then in the spirit of the season, drink deeply in the joy that is out there.

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Unemployment Hits Hard
Unemployment Hits Hard

Drilling down to the local level, the picture remains bleak for many communities across the country. In California, the state with the most number of foreclosures, some areas have unemployment on a par with the Great Depression.

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