September 7, 2010
The Washington Post - Anne E. Komblut and Lori Montgomery - With just two months until the November elections, the White House is seriously weighing a package of business tax breaks - potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars
September 4, 2010
- DS News - Carrie Bay - A faction of House Democrats have called on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the regulator of Fannie Mae, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to suspend the GSE’s recently announced policy to sue homeowners who strategically default on their mortgage.
Read Article... - Forbes - Nathalie Tadena - A survey indicates what white-collar opportunities will be growing most this fall.Although the national unemployment rate continues to be discouraging, job seekers have reason to be considerably more optimistic in some areas than in others
Read Article... - Mortgage News Daily - Jann Swanson - Community organizers, state and federal government officials, and representatives from banking, research and educations institutions are currently meeting in Washington at a REO and Vacant Properties Summit sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank.
Read Article... - Forbes - Susan Adams - A year and a half ago Forbes merged its dot-com and magazine editorial staffs, and we magazine editors got a dose of culture shock. We were used to coming and going as we pleased.We had few meetings. Especially in the mid- and upper-level ranks, we didn't socialize together much.
Read Article... - Housing Wire - Christine Ricciardi - Title insurance premiums nationwide decreased during the second quarter of 2010 compared to a year ago, a sign that demand for first-time home mortgages is depleting and refinance transactions are soaring.
Read Article... - WSJ - Candace Jackson - Paramount Chairman and CEO Brad Grey has sold his Pacific Palisades home for $21.5 million, according to people familiar with the matter. The buyer was Jordan L. Kaplan, CEO of Douglas Emmett, a real-estate investment trust.
Read Article... - Realty Times - Dirk Zeller - The Law of Difficulty basically says this: The harder the task, the fewer the people who will try to accomplish it. There is an advantage to the tougher tasks like being a Champion level objection handler.
Read Article... - Gallup - Dennis Jacobe - PRINCETON, NJ -- Underemployment, as measured by Gallup, was 18.6% in August, up from 18.4% at the end of July. Underemployment peaked at 20.4% in April and has yet to break below 18.3% this year.
Read Article... - The Big Picture - Ever wonder which countries have the biggest gold reserves? Which countries produced the most gold? Now, via Money Hacker, you know exactly who and how much:
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