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Imagining Life Without Fannie and Freddie

KUDOS to Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for some straight talk about the nation’s broken mortgage […]

Egypt: Preview of America in 2015

From NIA Website – National Inflation Association, The rioting and looting currently taking place in Egypt is primarily a result […]

The Real Estate Washout That Wasn’t

By Brian Louis and David M. Levitt, Bloomberg, From Manhattan office towers to Florida apartment buildings to retail properties in […]

Microsoft/Nokia Partnership Not Enough to Challenge Apple

No matter how closely the two match their hardware and software efforts, they can’t compete against Apple’s total, integrated package […]

Cheating, Incorporated

At Ashley Madison’s website for “dating,” the infidelity economy is alive, well, and profitable By Sheelah Kolhatkar Do you want […]

Pandora Media Files for $100 Million Stock Offering

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Pandora Media Inc., the biggest Internet-radio company, plans to raise as much as $100 million in […]

What Do Cash Buyers Mean for RE Market?

From http://www.ritholtz.com/blog, “The rates are great but the underwriting is brutal. They hang these people upside down and shake them […]

10 Companies To Rebuild America’s Infrastructure

from 247wallst site, America’s core infrastructure is falling apart.  Roads are sinking, bridges have collapsed, dams are old, power plants […]

Mortgage default notices slow sharply in January

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fewer U.S. homes entered the foreclosure process in January than in any month in more than […]

The Youth Unemployment Bomb

From Businessweek, Peter Coy, In Tunisia, the young people who helped bring down a dictator are called hittistes — French-Arabic […]