The House of Representatives on Monday, September 29, 2008 @ 2pm est., defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue package. As a result, stocks plummeted on Wall Street even before the 228-205 vote to reject the bill was announced on the House floor.
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Leaders in the U.S. Congress have agreed, as of Sunday September 28, 2008 —  to the details […]

Not to pile on, as there is clearly more than enough material on the topic, but we at MarylandCommercialTitle.com believe it is very important for all of us to fully understand the origins of our financial crisis, IF we are to truly solve the problem (and safeguard this from ever happening again).
Here is an attempt to summarize […]

Read Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s statement, unedited …addressing the root cause of the credit crisis.

September 19, 2008: 10:24 AM EDT
WASHINGTON — Statement by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson.
Last night, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, SEC Chairman Chris Cox and I had a lengthy and productive working session with Congressional leaders. We began a substantive discussion on […]

Gerald Baker of the TimesOnline puts a very interesting spin on the recent financial events, which have dominoed. In Bakers article, Crisis may prove cathartic in the long run, but the worst is not over, he states that: 
Yesterday a couple of the world’s most famous financial institutions sank without a  trace, one of the world’s […]

The recent government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has dominated the news recently.
Everyone has their opinions as to how the real estate and mortgage industries will be affected. Phoenix area real estate broker/blogger posted an excellent compendium of links to the opinions about the Fannie/Freddie situation across the blogosphere.
There is certainly […]

Brad Case, in Real Estate Portfolio, presents a rather optimistic and insightful piece about a possible sliver of opportunity that may just right before us: Property Paradox: Falling Property Values May Signal Bull Market for REITs. Maybe the glass is really half full …Lets see.   

Business reports are full of bad news on commercial property […]

Here is a great piece, from the Christian Science Monitor and staff writer Mark Trumbull, which puts the take over of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into perspective.

As Secretary of Treasury Paulson correctly concludes, the housing correction poses the biggest risk to our economy. Clearly the government has had enough and opted to take […]

SeekingAlpha just posted a very intriguing opinion piece by John Preston entitled, The Reality of Real Estate and the Economy.

Is this the problem? the solution?

According to many, the thesis (and problem) is simple: Housing health and the economy are linked arm-in-arm.  

Preston traces  this theory back to Robert Shiller, of Case-Shiller Home Price Index fame, who reflects back on a 2004 […]