Finance & Law for Not-So-Dummies

I work in the private practice of law dealing daily with the economic realities of average people who have average problems and with those w...

The Country is Saved. We Won't Default. We Won't Need the EU to Bail US Out! Hooray!!! As I noted in a Tweet, if the U.S. defaulted ...

The other day, I responded to a comment on Twitter from a knowledgeable mortgage financing friend regarding the current housing situation vi...

There used to be a TV show, weekly, called appropriately "THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS". It provided a satirical review of the week...

Credit Card companies have a new pitch - "0% Interest on Balance Purchases & Transfers Until XX/1/2012". The idea is to give ...

There is a new mosaic, or one that was just not recognized, developing in the Economy, and somewhat specifically in the mortgage area. Banks...

THIS IS ABOUT THE AMAZON EC2 "CLOUD" CRASH - OFF-TOPIC? MAYBE NOT) From the perspective of a law office, discovering that Amazon’s...

As Congress argues over what to argue about, they are avoiding dealing with THE major financial issue that needs to be resolved now - not in...

(From the March 7, 2011 posting for background) [How much is GOLD worth? Or even more basic, why is gold worth anything ? Why does the Pou...

RealtyTrac, the company that tracks foreclosures (state by state) and gives national figures, reports that foreclosures, meaning homeowners ...

How much is GOLD worth? Or even more basic, why is gold worth anything ? Why does the Pound Sterling or the Euro or the U.S. or Canadian Dol...

The Wall Street Journal in its February 5-6, 2011 edition had an article by David Benoit, entitled "BofA Sets Mortgage Cleanup Unit...

There were two "complimentary" articles yesterday - one in American Banker, entitled " MBS Trustees Push JPMorgan Chase for ...

Rep Randy Neugebauer, Chairman, House Financial Services Oversight Subcommittee, said it is time for the government to admit its foreclosure...

The latest news and business reports say that "the economy is improving. All economic indicators show..." If that is true, and not...

I strongly believe that the role of lawyers as it affects society in law itself and finance has been corrupted. The corruption comes from gr...

In his article, in the Tuesday November 15 th edition of the New York Times, about foreclosures, David Streitfield discloses the Banking/M...

This posting's title, with apologies to Carly Simon who wrote and sung Billboard's 72nd most popular song ever, is appropriate if an...