Chaos Theory, Shocks, and Fragility, Australia and Elsewhere
Australia and other countries had the opportunity to reduce financial fragility. They may soon discover the cost of doing too little.
Read more...Australia and other countries had the opportunity to reduce financial fragility. They may soon discover the cost of doing too little.
Read more...Demonstrating that public housing can be attractive and environmentally responsible.
Read more...Sadly, mortgage servicers are still very much in the document fabrication and forgery business.
Read more...Vancouver ponders a long-overdue measure to target residential real estate warehousing.
Read more...London exemplifies a global trend: property warehoused by the global wealthy, to the detriment of the people who live there.
Read more...The Administration has refused to turn over over 12,000 documents in a lawsuit against how the government operated Fannie and Freddie in their conservatorship. The major bone of contention is that Treasury stripped them of all profits, which damaged the remaining private shareholders. But the unsealing of a small batch of government records shows why […]
Read more...Australia is in the grip of the greatest economic scab grab of my lifetime
Read more...HUD finally acts on a festering problem, apparently to improve the odds of HUD chief Julian Castro getting a plum Clinton Administration post.
Read more...Like the Bourbons, the Clintons appear to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
Read more...Housing has clearly become less affordable over time. What to do about it?
Read more...The IMF argues that regulating mortgages is not sufficient to prevent housing booms and busts.
Read more...Warren brutalizes a bank crony who has worn regulator’s clothes at the Fed and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Ouch.
Read more...This month’s TaxCast features Bill Black on the Whistleblowers United regulatory reform proposals plus why tax amnesties are a bad idea.
Read more...State court abuse of the principle of res judicata, out of reluctance to give borrowers “free houses,” encourages poor foreclosure practices and causes broader social harm.
Read more...Hamptons real estate is soft at the high end. A portent for the financial health of the super rich?
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