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For those of you that do not Tweet – you should consider doing so. If you want to talk about effective bang for the buck, the 140 total characters, letters, numbers and spaces of a Tweet on Twitter certainly qualifies. Who knew you could say so much...

Some of the same characters that played leading roles last time. The value of the US housing market has ballooned to $26 trillion. In many markets, prices exceed even the peak or the prior bubble that blew up so spectacularly. This construct is weighed...

Housing Bust 2? Subprime No-Down-Payment Mortgages Surge, “Shadow Banks” Dominate Some of the same characters that played leading roles last time. The value of the US housing market has ballooned to $26 trillion. In many markets, prices exceed even...

(This article was first published on Category: R | Todd W. Schneider, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) [M]ortgages were acknowledged to be the most mathematically complex securities in the marketplace. The complexity arose entirely out of the option...

Should Investors Unload Their Mortgage REITs? May 5, 2015 by Keith Jurow PDF | 2 For the past several years, I have written extensively about the Fed’s dangerous efforts to drive interest rates low enough to stimulate a stronger recovery.  As a consequence...