Archive for May 2009

Financial Sense Eludes Most Americans

Financial Sense Eludes Most Americans

Financial Quiz - Which Option Is Better?

1.  Spend $2.50 today and receive $92 back over the next four years.
2.  Spend 25 cents 10 times over the next four years plus spend $92, at easy payment terms of [...]

Mortgage Rates Skyrocket As Fed’s Rate Manipulation Fails

Mortgage Rates Skyrocket As Fed's Rate Manipulation Fails

Markets Will Ultimately Determine Long Term Interest Rates
Treasuries continued their sell off today as the yield on the 10 year benchmark bond climbed to 3.72%, a stunning increase from the recent lows just over 2% in late [...]

Mortgage Mod And Foreclosure Scams: Saying Goodbye To The Mortgage May Be Better

Mortgage Mod And Foreclosure Scams: Saying Goodbye To The Mortgage May Be Better

FDIC Advice Good But Too Late
The FDIC Consumer News is warning homeowners to avoid falling prey to loan modification and foreclosure rescue scams.  Many financially distressed homeowners are  preyed upon by firms that “guarantee” financial salvation, take [...]

US Treasury-Owned Gold - What Would It Buy?

US Treasury-Owned Gold - What Would It Buy?

Some Thoughts On The Value Of  US Owned Gold
The United States Treasury Department recently issued a report on the total amount of US Treasury-Owned Gold. As of April 30, 2009 the US Treasury held a total [...]

California’s Crash Omen of Nation’s Future

Borrow and Spend = Crash and Burn
California has always been the trend setter for the nation but never more so than today as it totters on the edge of insolvency.  The theory that States or Nations cannot [...]

Economies Plummet - Markets Yawn

Economies Plummet - Markets Yawn

What Are The Markets Telling Us?
The reality disconnect between the markets and the economic news has become extreme.  Consider the following headline:
World Economies Plummet- WSJ
Steep declines in the economies of three of the U.S.’s biggest trading partners [...]

FHA’s New Mortgage Program - Free Home Plus Trip To Vegas

100% Plus Financing Available
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, passed early this year, provides up to an $8,000 tax credit for first time home buyers.   The tax credit refund would be given to the home [...]

America’s Triple A Credit Rating - At The Precipice?

Black Swan Events Becoming Routine

Our Nation has avoided the decline into the abyss that many have been predicting during the economic crisis.  At the cost of approximately $13 trillion in government bailouts and guarantees the system has [...]

Mr Greenspan, “There You Go Again”

Mr Greenspan,

Greenspan Insists He Was And Is The Maestro
Alan Greenspan, probably more responsible for the financial bust
than anyone else on planet earth, attempts to influence the history books by again (unsuccessfully) defending his record.
WASHINGTON — Former Federal Reserve [...]