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IT’S BACK & IT’S HERE: Mandelman’s Monthly Museletter – Version 9.0
Yeah, I know… it’s been several months since my last Monthly Museletter. So, what’s your point? I try to keep up but it’s not easy. The banks are such pond scum that their crimes and abuses come...
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New Fed Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin Gives Me Reason to Hope
On October 4, 2010, President Barack Obama appointed Sarah Bloom Raskin to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Raskin has a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College, her...
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Republican Filibuster Discloses that GOP Opposes DISCLOSURE
On Monday evening, Senate Republicans filibustered to kill S.3369, the DISCLOSE Act… “A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for...
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Former SIGTARP Neil Barofsky – The Last Honest Man in Washington – A...
HERE HE IS! He could very well be the last honest man in Washington, but he’s certainly one of the last. Former Special Inspector General for TARP, Neil Barofsky, is flat out my hero. In his role at...
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What’s the difference between Spain and the USA? Empatía y sentido común. Sí,...
This past week BBC News reported that a woman in northern Spain, Amaia Egana, 53, a former politician jumped to her death from her fourth floor apartment… just as officials were arriving to evict...
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Homeowners: Start Your Emails… This is Your Chance for $50 Billion Principal...
Homeowners have a chance right now to make their views about government not doing enough to help those with underwater mortgages heard in Washington D.C. I’m not saying it will be our only...
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View from Inside the Financial Crisis with Former Treasury Chief Economist...
THIS IS A MUST HEAR! In December of 2006, academic economist Phillip Swagel, after serving as chief of staff and senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and as an economist...
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Foreclosures Impact One in 10 Children in this Country Today, Report Shows
A report authored by Julia Isaacs of the Brookings Institute titled, “The Ongoing Impact of Foreclosures on Children,” has pointed out, among other things, that foreclosures in this country now...
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The Discovery of Robo-Signing – Memorable Moments from the Foreclosure Crisis
The Discovery of Robo-Signing By now the term “robo-signing” has practically become a household word. But it wasn’t always that way. Just a few years ago no one had ever heard the term before. So,...
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IBANEZ & BACK: Attorney Glenn Russell Back in Front of the Mass Supreme Court...
Massachusetts Attorney Glenn Russell, that’s him in the center of the picture above… sorry about the quality, I took it myself with my iPhone, when we were both attending Max Gardner’s special weekend...
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GUEST POST: Don’t Be Concerned Martin Is Dead Wrong, by Michael Pines
So, this morning I posted an article about the Glaski decision, which I first wrote about just after it became a “published decision” last August. In my article this morning I wrote about the Glaski...
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NOW AVAILABLE: The RMBS Trust/Modification Analysis Report for Homeowners
If you’re applying for a loan modification, or you’re in mediation, or if you’ve already applied for a loan modification and feel as if you’re now on the Loan Modification-Go-Round, then you know that...
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Borrowers Facing Foreclosure Should be Dancing in the Streets Over ‘X’ and...
Four years ago this January, I was invited to speak at the American Bar Association’s (“ABA”) Conference on Consumer Financial Services, which was being held that year in Park City, Utah. In...
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IT’S BACK & IT’S HERE: Mandelman’s Monthly Museletter – Version 9.0
Yeah, I know… it’s been several months since my last Monthly Museletter. So, what’s your point? I try to keep up but it’s not easy. The banks are such pond scum that their crimes and abuses come...
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New Fed Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin Gives Me Reason to Hope
On October 4, 2010, President Barack Obama appointed Sarah Bloom Raskin to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Raskin has a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College, her...
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Republican Filibuster Discloses that GOP Opposes DISCLOSURE
On Monday evening, Senate Republicans filibustered to kill S.3369, the DISCLOSE Act… “A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for...
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Senate Investigation Says Banks Caused Crisis, Not Borrowers
They finally got it! And geeze, it took them long enough. I wrote an article TWO YEARS AGO, titled “What Happened on Wall Street and Why,” and it explained the factors the contributed to the...
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Watch Which Words You Use With Republicans – They Could Take Their Toys and...
Derivatives, deregulation, Wall Street, shadow banking, interconnection… all words that might be used to describe the financial crisis that has thrown this country into an abyss so deep, that I don’t...
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CA’s Democrats in Congress Wake Up to Need to Address Foreclosures
Well, that’s a pretty safe statement, but when? The San Francisco Chronicle is at least beginning to wake up to the fact that foreclosures are quite the problem in California. Yesterday, on page A-13,...
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Our future hinges on just ONE thing…
Cartoon by Steve Grenberg How the foreclosure crisis impacts our country’s standard of living from this point forward will all come down to how we handle ONE thing. We either change that one thing, or...
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