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Video: DNC chair pretty happy with jobs picture
“There’s that old definition of doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.” Here’s a lesson on messaging: when we’ve had three sub-par jobs reports in a row, the...
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LA Times: Men get 80% of the jobs Obama recovery created
War on women? If we experienced a “man-cession” in 2007-2009, we may be experienced a “man-covery” in 2012. However, that’s not good news for women looking to find gainful employment — and it’s not...
View ArticleFAIL | Edward DeMarco Rejects Gov’t Mortgage Write-Down Plan
Regulator rejects gov’t mortgage write-down plan WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The top U.S. housing regulator rebuffed the offer of taxpayer funds to reduce mortgages held by struggling homeowners on Tuesday,...
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How nice: We’re stuck in the weakest economic recovery since WWII
Womp, womp. You know we’re in trouble when even the Associated Press can no longer determinedly avoid the big-picture reality of our current economic mess. According to an AP report released earlier...
View ArticleBring Out The Fences And Concrete Barriers…The Fascists Are Coming To Town!
Bring Out The Fences And Concrete Barriers…The Fascists Are Coming To Town! They’ve been warning for months now, but you really cannot be prepared for your city turning into a heavily fortified...
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Cutter: Obama has created more jobs than the Reagan recovery
Weaksauce. Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter made another appearance on MNSBC Wednesday morning, promoting some mighty interesting ideas about job creation and the economy. …Well, I think...
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Greece: Er, do you think we could get an extension on those austerity...
Pressure. And now for an update on what’s happening with the ongoing European debt crisis (which, as President Obama is constantly reminding us, is one of the many “headwinds” facing global economic...
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Why No Prosecutions
The NYTimes had a very good editorial today bemoaning, with resignation, that there will not be any serious prosecutions of senior bank executives or institutions for the financial crisis. The...
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Attention DOERS… You DID IT Again! SunTrust Responds.
Well, DOERS… You’ve done it once again. I hope you’re proud of yourselves… … because I’m certainly proud of YOU! An executive from SunTrust Bank called Marty Fisk first thing this morning to tell...
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President Obama, Bored With the Foreclosure Crisis. That Explains A Lot,...
Jean Braucher is the Roger C. Henderson Professor of Law at the University of Arizona law school. She occasionally guest posts on Georgetown Law School Professor, Adam Levitin’s blog, Credit Slips....
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State of Illinois Foreclosure Resource Links
STATE OF ILLINOIS GOVERNMENT RESOURCES: Attorney General Lisa Madigan Auditor General William G. Holland Civil Service Commission Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka Department of Child & Family...
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Illinois Foreclosure Laws
CLICK BELOW FOR: State of Illinois Foreclosure Laws The link above will take you to the page dedicated to Illinois’ foreclosure laws. But, always remember… often people have a hard time understanding...
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ILLINOIS Foreclosure Help from Mandelman Matters – START HERE
You have found the Mandelman Matters state specific series of pages dedicated to homeowners at risk of foreclosure in Illinois. On the pages in this section you’ll find accurate, straightforward...
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Lost Pride in America Mine
I’ve always felt nothing but unqualified anguish when thinking about the genocide that utterly destroyed the Native American people. They lost their country and their lives to some of the most...
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Announcing the National Mortgage Settlement – My Favorite President Obama...
It happened last February 9th. President Obama announced what would become soon after become known as the National Mortgage Settlement. It was the end of more than a year of negotiations between...
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I Would Have Bet Anything Against This 10 Years Ago…
I’m not kidding about this… If even ten years ago, someone would have tried to tell me that in 2012, young people in Russia would be doing this (see video below), while in the U.S.A. our young people...
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Three Central Banks Surprise… Desperation in Three Part Harmony
Yesterday, the New York Times reported that in a single hour three central banks… one in Europe… one in the UK, and one in China all unexpectedly announced policy changes. China’s central bank cut...
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LBO AMERICA with Catherine Austin Fitts, A Mandelman Matters Podcast
Catherine Austin Fitts has perspective on the housing and mortgage meltdown like no other. Under President George Herbert Walker Bush, she was Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housing...
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Texas Foreclosure Laws
CLICK BELOW FOR: State of Texas Foreclosure Laws The link above will take you to the page dedicated to Texas’s foreclosure laws. But, always remember… often people have a hard time understanding...
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State of Texas Foreclosure Resource Links
STATE OF TEXAS GOVERNMENT RESOURCES: Attorney General Greg Abbott Finance Commission of Texas House of Representatives Joe Straus, Speaker of the House Representatives On-Line Legislative Council...
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TEXAS Foreclosure Help from Mandelman Matters – START HERE
You have found the Mandelman Matters state specific series of pages dedicated to homeowners at risk of foreclosure in Texas. On the pages in this section you’ll find accurate, straightforward...
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Scott Stafne for Washington State Supreme Court – A Mandelman Matters Podcast
Attorney Scott Stafne is running for a seat on the State Supreme Court in the State of Washington. Why is he running, and why should you care? Well, he’s running because he cares. And you should...
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Attention Mortgage Servicers… Heed these words now, because it’s much later...
According to the HOPE NOW Alliance, May was a very UP month. Everything went up in May. The number of in-house or “proprietary” loan modifications increased by five percent in May as compared with...
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Understanding Elite Fraud and the Mortgage Meltdown with William K. Black – A...
If you know anything about the Savings & Loan crisis, then you know William K. Black. If you remember the “Keating Five,” then you know William K. Black. If you’ve watched anything on television...
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How’s the View from Where You’re Sitting?
So, I was wondering… how’s the view from where you’re sitting these days. Is it just me… because I keep hearing a loud flushing sound coming from all over the place? Anyway, as I was scanning the...
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Mortgage Servicing… The Winds Have Shifted, the Pendulum is About to Swing
Early in 2010, while speaking in Park City, Utah at the American Bar Association’s Conference on Consumer Financial Services, I cautioned the two hundred plus attorneys from financial institutions...
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GAO Study Finds OCC Foreclosure Review too Hard for Us to Understand
Apparently, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) has been studying the possible reasons why so few victims of foreclosure in 2009 and 2010 chose to submit their cases for review by the Office...
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