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Tag Archives: Yves Smith
Mortgage Settlement Plan is More Bank Bailout
Guest Author: Yves Smith, author of the best seller “Econned” and founder of the widely read blog Naked Capitalism, where this article first appeared with the title: Quelle Surprise! Taxpayers Will Be Paying for Part of Mortgage Settlement The whole … Continue reading
Posted in Banking News
Tagged Banana republic, Banking industry, Credit markets, Legal, politics, real estate, Regulations and regulators, Yves Smith
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FDIC’s Frank-Dodd Fantasy
The FDIC has released a document that purports to show how it could have successfully resolved Lehman Brothers using its new Title II resolution authority granted under Dodd Frank.
All I can say is that this is an interesting piece of creative writing. The Lehman counterfactual rests on a series of assumptions, which as I will discuss shortly, look pretty questionable.
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Posted in Banking News, Studies
Tagged Dodd-Frank, FDIC, Lehman, liquidation, Yves Smith
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Mortgage Problems – Yves Smith Interview by Harry Shearer
This interview is informative and interesting to those who have followed the mortgage crisis closely as well as to those to whom it is new. Continue reading
Posted in Banking News, Home Sales and Home Prices
Tagged foreclosures, Harry Shearer, mortgages, Yves Smith
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Servicer-Driven Foreclosures: The Perfect Crime?
Wide spread mortgage service fraud is adding to the foreclosure problem. Abuse in this area is pervasive and has been going on for a long time. Continue reading
Posted in Banking News, Home Sales and Home Prices
Tagged foreclosure, mortgage service, Yves Smith
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Yves Smith on BNN
This post provides a link to Yves Smith explaining the foreclosure/mortgage mess on BNN. Continue reading
Posted in Banking News, Home Sales and Home Prices
Tagged foreclosures, mortgages, Yves Smith
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The Mortgage Mess
For more than three months Yves Smith has written daily on the unfolding foreclosure documentation crisis at Naked Capitalism. She has written this exclusive summary of her work for GEI. Continue reading
Posted in Banking News, Home Sales and Home Prices
Tagged DocX, foreclosures, Lender Processing Services, MBS, MERS, mortgages, Prommis Solutions, RMBS, Yves Smith
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What Does a Foreclosure Moratorium Mean for the Housing Market?
A foreclosure moratorium could have a complex effect on residential real estate markets. Housing sales could decline but prices could rise at first. Later sales could rebound and prices drop. Continue reading
Posted in Banking News, Home Sales and Home Prices
Tagged foreclosures, housing, moratorium, mortages, Naked Capitalism, Yves Smith
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Defensive Medicine: A Non-Factor in Escalating Health Care Costs?
A new study suggests that “defensive medicine” and malpractice insurance costs are much less that has previously been thought. Continue reading
Posted in Health Care
Tagged defensive medicine, Healthcare, malpractice, Michelle M. Mello, Paduda, Yves Smith
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