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Mortgage Interest Rates Continue to Move Up

July 2nd, 2008 2:45 pm
Mortgage Interest RatesWidget Mortgage Rate Trends After rising drastically last week fixed mortgage interest rates moved up slightly this week. 30 Year notes moved from 6.42 to 6.4... [Read More]

Mortgage Interest Rates: Up Up And Away

June 24th, 2008 2:53 am
Mortgage Interest Rates Mortgage Rate Trends Up up and away. Mortgage interest rates continue on their upward trajectory. 30 Year mortgage rates went from 6.32 to 6.42. 15 y... [Read More]

Real Estate: Where's The Bottom?

May 6th, 2008 1:50 am
In recent months, the US real estate market has seen its fair share of turbulent weather as house prices continue to fall. While the Federal Reserve has taken significant steps towards making lending... [Read More]

What Is Going On With Mortgage Rates This Month

April 14th, 2008 1:20 am
Mortgage interest rates remained relatively unchanged for the second week in a row. Mortgage Interest Rates Historical Mortgage Rates (to post the above widget on your site go to www.e... [Read More]

The 30 Year Loan vs The 15 Year Loan

April 3rd, 2008 2:27 am
This article compares the 30 Year Loan vs the 15 Year Loan. We compare the monthly savings of the 30 Year Loan, and the investment potential of this saving, vs the overall lower cost of the 15 Year Loan.

Does Anyone Need a Free Widget That Keeps Your Web Visitors Up To Date On Mortgage Rates - Or How I Wasted My Last Several Weekends

March 29th, 2008 5:28 pm
It started off simply enough. I had been updating site by hand to keep mortgage rates up to date. So I wanted to create a widget that would automatically update my website with current mortgage rate... [Read More]

Mortgage Scheme

March 26th, 2008 7:53 pm
Categorized in: Foreclosure
Tagged with: fed, foreclosure, mortgage
Federal prosecutors announced 19 indictments Monday in a mortgage scheme... Under the scam, home owners facing foreclosure were promised lower home payments and cash up-front if they agreed to add another name...

Bear Stearns and the New Federal Reserve

March 26th, 2008 5:45 pm
On March 14th, Bear Stearns, the fifth-largest investment bank in the United States, entered a period of insolvency. As growing lack of confidence in the firm's subprime exposure grew, other banks eve... [Read More]

Why the FED is Having Less Influence over Mortgage Interest Rates

March 22nd, 2008 9:53 pm
In the past when the Federal Reserve cut the discount rate it translated into lower mortgage interest rates for home buyers. This was a convenient way for the Federal Reserve to stimulate the economy... [Read More]

Subprime Woes Reach New Heights

March 21st, 2008 5:26 pm
This article discusses the most recent developments in the subprime mortgage crisis, addressing the twin spectres of rising foreclosures and jitters on Wall Street.

Why the Fed is Hurting the Housing Industry

March 20th, 2008 1:44 pm
Tagged with: fed, housing crisis, inflation
Is it possible that the Federal Reserve, despite all of its protestations to the opposite, really hates the housing industry? Could Bernanke and the rest of the Fed cronies not only be totally incompetent, but actually have a vendetta against the middle class? Is there any evidence that the Fed is out to absolutely destroy the housing market even as it professes to be trying to save it.
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