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Survival Tips: Managing Your Business During A Down Market

October 6th, 2008 12:29 pm
The stock market is down 700+, the VIX is close to 60, and I figurured that this would be a great time to reprint an article from a blog that I read every day, The Mortgage Cicerone. The article refers to belt tightening practices and the ways of running

The Message Of The Markets: Stock,Credit and Mortgage

October 2nd, 2008 5:17 am
The Message Of The Markets The Senate passed the Bailout Bill 75-25 last night, in a fairly strong showing of bi-partisan support. Amendments were added to gain votes, and more importantly to entice some of the House members to vote yes without losing

A Bailout Package Is Coming Into View

September 25th, 2008 9:30 am
For all of our sake, let's hope that the cavalry is coming to the rescue, and that they bring all of the right ammunition. Let's get this done and move on!!!

Existing Home Sales: The Chicken Or The Egg

September 24th, 2008 11:37 am
If we can get back to the point of the banks beginning to trust each others credit worthiness, and we get a bailout package that puts liquidity back onto their balance sheets, perhaps this particular piece of economic data can improve before the next repo

Know Your Lenders That Are Lending and Goldman Sachs

September 24th, 2008 2:59 am
As a former trader watching the market yesterday afternoon, the news of this deal was more likely than not already in the marketplace before it was announced. Let's take a look at the way Goldman closed and the volume that it traded between 3:50 and 4:00.

The Bailout, Real Estate, Mortgages, Economy and the Stock Market. Oh Boy!

September 23rd, 2008 10:38 am
As a participant in the commercial mortgage and real estate markets, I want to know if it will mean that financial institutions that remain will once again be willing to lend. Once we know that they are willing to lend, the question will become who they a

The Government Rescue Plan: What Are They Talking About?

September 22nd, 2008 7:08 am
It took MIT quants to put these products together, and maybe it will take another one to really explain to me how this is all going to work. I understand the premise: to take bad product off of the books of the banks that own them which will hopefully re-

The Mortgage Crisis: A Funny Look At A Very Serious Problem

September 19th, 2008 5:37 am
The following cartoon depicts in an extremely funny way, the sub-prime mortgage crisis as it might have happened. It takes you from the original making of the mortgage, to the investment banks that packaged and sold them, to the accountants and ratings ag

Analyze a Commercial Mortgage Loan Plus The Financial Markets

September 17th, 2008 6:03 pm
If you missed the presentation on the process and tools that you need to analyze a commercial mortgage loan on income producing property, please visit http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Michael_Haltman , and you will be able to read my 4 part series on how

Time To Start Moving Forward? Back To Basics With Marketing

September 17th, 2008 5:28 am
The Components of a Marketing Plan Here are the key components of a marketing plan

Enough Of All This Damn Doom And Gloom

September 15th, 2008 7:05 am
OK. I think that we have established that there are some big problems out there, and today is going to be very interesting. But you know what? At the end of the day what happens to Lehman and AIG and everyone else does not in actuality put food on my tabl

Market Events: Pick Your Poison!

September 15th, 2008 3:50 am
I have spent the weekend watching and listening to the events that are unfolding somewhere down in lower New York City. Another investment bank teeters on the edge of going out of business after being in business since the 1800's. The Fed, the Treasury an

Network, Network, Network

September 13th, 2008 1:21 pm
I wanted to share some websites that if you are serious about mortgages, real estate and networking, you should join

Here We Go Again The Bell Is Tolling For Lehman and AIG

September 13th, 2008 4:12 am
We have had the recent federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and now we have the imminent potential demise or takeover of Lehman Brothers, the apparent serious need for a capital infusion at AIG, and the next potential shoe to drop for our insti

What Goes Up Must Come Down (and visa versa)

September 11th, 2008 4:19 am
We have been through the cycles of the real estate market before , and we will go through them again. Right? We have seen the rise and the fall of the stock market many times, gold, oil ,copper, coal and any number of other markets and will see them again
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