Foreclosure Prevention 1.1
Nobody ever thought that returning a lady’s purse to her after a purse snatcher ran away with it was a gift. So why is anyone contesting returning the purse to homeowners who had their lives snatched...
View ArticleMartin Andelman Responding to Erin Baldwin writing on her blog, The Big...
Although I’ve never met or otherwise interacted with Erin Baldwin, I have certainly seen Erin Baldwin’s blog about me before, although it has been many months since she has come up in conversation....
View ArticleI Think It’s Now Safe for Me to Speak Out About Loan Modifications and the...
I’ve been waiting for this day for almost a year. The day I could stop beating around the bush and come right out and talk about the “secret” NPV and loan modifications. Because I’ve known about the...
View ArticleNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL PICKS UP ON THE AFFIDAVIT ABSURDITY IN FLORIDA COURTS
The national media is now picking up on a major issue in foreclosure cases that we’ve been raising in this office for months now….the fact that most foreclosure judgments entered in this state are...
View ArticleNUCLEAR BOMBSHELL- The Rule of Law Applied to FORECLOSURE CASES…in New Jersey!
Apparently the practices in foreclosure courts in New Jersey have gotten so out of hand that the court has initiated an inquiry into the quetionable nature and inaccuracies of documents submitted in...
View ArticleFannie Mae Terminates Relationships With More Florida Law Firms?
I had my first experience in a Lee County courtroom today where one attorney’s job appeared to be to make excuses for all sorts of problems…after all, her firm was withdrawing from 150,000 foreclosure...
View ArticleCAPACITY, CAPACITY, CAPACITY- READ THE TRANSCRIPT
There is a major defect in almost every foreclosure case, and it continues even today, this late in the game. We are still allowing unknown, unidentified and unauthorized Plaintiffs to appear in...
View ArticleSuper! EPA going after ozone now
More jobs shaved or evaporated In what has become a depressingly repeating pattern, if you take your eyes off of the EPA for too long they get up to all sorts of plans to “save” America. When they’re...
View ArticleThe World of the Investor with Attorney Talcott Franklin – A Mandelman...
WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH INVESTORS? WHO ARE THEY? ARE THEY LOSING MONEY ON FORECLOSURES? What do the investors think about all these foreclosures? What’s the relationship like between investors and...
View ArticleHolder to call for tighter gun control in Fast & Furious testimony tomorrow
Of course. Why not? We pay for having a terrible federal government every day. Why should this be any different just because it involves lost rights instead of lost money? Seriously, though, having...
View ArticleOut: Gulf of Mexico. In: Gulf of America
Stop. Just stop. Please. People like to blame Mexico for all sorts of things. Drug trafficking, gastrointestinal disorders, stealing our jobs… and now, stealing our international bodies of water. Or...
View ArticleMatt Taibbi | Why the Foreclosure Deal May Not Be So Hot After All
Why the Foreclosure Deal May Not Be So Hot After All So the foreclosure settlement is through. A few weeks back, I was optimistic about it – I had been worried that it was going to contain broad...
View ArticleCybersecurity battle heads to Congress
More regulation vs. the free market There’s no getting around it… hackers are doing a lot more than just loading trojans into your important e-mails from Nigerian princes trying to send you money....
View ArticleCongress Has Its Own Limiting Principle
This is supposed to be a blog about credit and bankruptcy, but I can't help myself in making a short comment about one aspect of the oral argument and discussion from yesterday's challenge to the...
View ArticleResearch Grants from NCBJ
As many readers of this blog will know, the Endowment for Education from the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges has supported many research projects that have contributed to a better...
View ArticleFinally, Jamie Dimon and I Agree on Something
JPMorgan Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, says he doesn’t want to make excuses, but his bank’s $2 billion losses in the last 45 days were due to errors, sloppiness, terrible execution, bad judgment and...
View ArticleDaily Kos poll of Wisconsin: Scott Walker leads by five, Romney within one...
Waterloo? Don’t get too excited about the Obama/Romney number. Wisconsin hasn’t turned red since 1984, so if Mitt ends up winning there this year it’ll likely be because he’s riding a landslide wave...
View ArticleSave the American Community Survey
The Credit Slips blog always has tried to offer perspectives from many different social sciences. That is why many readers may be distressed to learn of the attack on the American Community Survey...
View ArticlePolls: Independents starting to bail on Obama over the economy?
Data. Tomorrow’s the big speech where he plans to ask for more time to turn things around because there have been all sorts of headwinds and Hopenchange takes time and that damned George W. Bush did...
View ArticleCAR- California Assn. of Realtors Tries to Kill Homeowners Bill of Rights
You know, I wasn’t going to say anything about the role of Realtors here, but now that the California Association of Realtors (“C.A.R.”) has actually sent out a RED ALERT opposing… and more than...
View ArticleAnnouncing the National Mortgage Settlement – My Favorite President Obama...
It happened last February 9th. President Obama announced what would become soon after become known as the National Mortgage Settlement. It was the end of more than a year of negotiations between...
View ArticlePawlenty: Romney doesn’t need a “flashy” running mate
Plus: “If you goad me into it, I’ll show you my tats.” A quick vice-presidential state of play: We’ve heard tips about all sorts of timelines over the past few days (Romney will announce his...
View ArticleGermany may need to — er — “adjust” its own clean-energy standards
That’s embarrassing. As one of Europe’s more fiscally sane, politically organized, and self-fancied forward-thinking countries, Germany — Europe’s largest economy — has touted itself as a leader in...
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