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Check out New York Newsday's series on the American Home Mortgage collapse: www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzahm0801-gallery,0,2624892.storygallery?coll=...
Signs Of A Turnaround?
Indymac Bank announced this afternoon that it is returning to the jumbo loan market. In other words, if you're in the market for a mortgage in excess ...
Another Lender Bites the Dust
Lehman Brothers announced today that it was shutting down BNC Mortgage, the subprime mortgage company that it bought in 2004. A note on the BNC Mortga...
A Great Italian Restaurant in San Francisco
Ilyce, we are traveling to San Francisco for a wedding in October. Could you tell me the name of the great Italian restaurant you ate at when you were...
Yesterday’s Show
I received this letter last night after the show: I was listening today (Sunday, Aug 19-WSB) when David from San Francisco called about health care a...
Foreclosure: What To Do If You’re On The Edge Financially
If you're one of the dozens of folks who have written to me over the past few weeks talking about how you've either missed a mortgage payment or are i...
Sherry’s Call On WSB This Morning
Sherry called the show to weigh in on the new Medicare policy. Here's her horrifying story: She had a total hysterectomy, and the wound started oozin...
Medicare Won’t Pay For Doctor’s Mistakes
The New York Times discussed the new (www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/washington/19hospital.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin) Medicare policy directive...
Agents Bad Behavior
Is this what it has come to with exclusive buyer agents? Here's a letter I just received: Dear Ilyce: First of all, I want to THANK YOU FROM THE BOT...
Residential Construction Down 6 percent from June
The good news continues. Housing starts in July, 2007 were 1,381,000, down 6.1 percent from June. The bigger news is that housing starts are down nea...