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Don't Dump Investors
After all, its in our national interest to protect investors — unless, of course, theyre folks who merely bought a house or two. Blinder, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, could not be more clear: He suggests that the government should develop a federal program to buy out mortgages from lenders, just as it did during the Depression — to “refinance only owner-occupied residences. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
In an unprecedented move aimed at quelling the mounting tidal wave of unrest affecting the world’s economies and investors, the Federal Reserve, in partnership with other central banks around the world, pulled off a coordinated reduction of short-term interest rates Wednesday. Ben Bernanke and his team at the Federal Open Market Committee took the federal funds rate down another 50 basis points (one-half a percent) to 1.5 Citing the recent intensification of the global financial crisis even while inflationary pressures are starting to moderate somewhat, the Fed, along with the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, Sveriges Riksbank, and the Swiss National Bank, all announced rate reductions.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Thursday, December 18, 2008
Fed's Latest Moves No Real Surprise
Financial analysts who were hoping for some downward movement on interest rates yesterday by the Federal Reserve were disappointed as Ben Bernanke and his merry band unanimously voted to do nothing. Following what is now a familiar and conservative wait-and-see strategy towards the nation’s economy, and reactionary as usual, Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee left their short-term federal funds rate at 2 percent. Later in the day the Fed made what had to be a highly anticipated move by the nation’s financial gurus, deciding to bailout AIG at the 11th hour before the world’s largest insurance company went bankrupt.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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RealtyTrac VP Speaking at USFN Seminar
rdquo; “The housing slump — accompanied by a surge in foreclosures — in the midst of a presidential election year has pushed foreclosure prevention legislation to the top of many politicians’ priority lists,” Sharga said in a statement . “The House and Senate both recently passed legislation aimed at providing relief to homeowners facing foreclosure, and many states have passed or proposed similar measures. If you’re attending the annual 2008 USFN National Default Servicing Seminar in Texas this week, you can catch RealtyTrac Vice President of Marketing Rick Sharga speaking on the latest foreclosure legislation at a 9 a.m.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed's Latest Moves No Real Surprise
Financial analysts who were hoping for some downward movement on interest rates yesterday by the Federal Reserve were disappointed as Ben Bernanke and his merry band unanimously voted to do nothing. Following what is now a familiar and conservative wait-and-see strategy towards the nation’s economy, and reactionary as usual, Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee left their short-term federal funds rate at 2 percent. Later in the day the Fed made what had to be a highly anticipated move by the nation’s financial gurus, deciding to bailout AIG at the 11th hour before the world’s largest insurance company went bankrupt.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Back to Wait and See for the Fed
The Federal Open Market Committee took the advice Wednesday of all the financial analysts and market watchers and did absolutely nothing with the short term Federal Funds Rate (FFR). After whittling away at the rate over time from a high of 5.25 Fisher, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who preferred that the Committee not wait and raise the FFR at this meeting. percent back in August 2007 down to 2 percent last month, the Fed has decided to go back to the wait-and-see stance Chairman Ben Bernanke established when he first took over the reins of the agency back in August 2006.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Fed, World's Banks Pull Off Global Rate Reduction
In an unprecedented move aimed at quelling the mounting tidal wave of unrest affecting the world’s economies and investors, the Federal Reserve, in partnership with other central banks around the world, pulled off a coordinated reduction of short-term interest rates Wednesday. Ben Bernanke and his team at the Federal Open Market Committee took the federal funds rate down another 50 basis points (one-half a percent) to 1.5 Citing the recent intensification of the global financial crisis even while inflationary pressures are starting to moderate somewhat, the Fed, along with the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, Sveriges Riksbank, and the Swiss National Bank, all announced rate reductions.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Thursday, December 18, 2008
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Rate Cut, Real GDP Are Some Positive News
In the first, and the more closely watched of the two, the Federal Reserve took a much anticipated move to lessen the pressure on the nation’s economy by lowering the federal funds rate another 25 basis points to 2 percent (that’s a long way down from the 5.25 General weakness in the economy was citied by the Federal Market Open Committee as the primary reason for this latest cut. One day after President Bush pointed the finger at Congress and told the American public to blame lawmakers for all of their recent financial woes, an inkling of actual positive news came out of Washington Wednesday with two announcements from government agencies.
www.foreclosurepulse.com
- Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Don't Dump Investors
After all, its in our national interest to protect investors — unless, of course, theyre folks who merely bought a house or two. Blinder, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, could not be more clear: He suggests that the government should develop a federal program to buy out mortgages from lenders, just as it did during the Depression — to “refinance only owner-occupied residences. Don’t Dump Investors By Peter G. Miller When it comes
www.realtytrac.com
- Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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