what is a credit default swap and what does that have to do with me?

October 9, 2008

If you did not see the 60 minutes show on Sunday October 5th then you missed a great opportunity to understand the underlying issues that are plaguing our financial markets today. Understanding how all the pieces fit will help you as a consumer and a mortgage professional better understand why and how credit works for and against us. This explains the bigger picture of why our economy can be so affected by 6% of mortgages going bad. Most consumers are saying I am paying my mortgage Read Full Article

House, in second effort, passes bailout bill

October 3, 2008

White House promises quick enactment for massive Wall Street rescue The House passed a $700 billion bailout of the financial services industry Friday, reversing itself after members who voted to kill the measure earlier in the week came around to a Senate version that offered more protection for individual investors and small businesses. Stocks were up sharply in anticipation that the measure could help thaw frozen credit markets. After a week of reversals and intense lobbying, the Read Full Article

Senate Set to Vote Tonight on Bailout

October 1, 2008

WASHINGTON (Oct. 1) - After one spectacular failure, the $700 billion financial industry bailout found a second life Wednesday, speeding toward passage in the Senate and gaining ground in the House where conservative opposition seemed to soften. Senators loaded the economic rescue bill with tax breaks and other sweeteners for the right and left, hoping to secure approval in the House by Friday, just days after lawmakers there stunningly rejected an earlier version and sent markets plunging Read Full Article

Wall Street tumbles as fear grips the markets

September 29, 2008

Dow plunges over 700 points after House defeats big financial rescue NEW YORK - Fear swept across the financial markets Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down over 700 points in a volatile market, after the government’s financial bailout package failed to survive a vote in the House. The Dow was testing a record 721.56-point decline set during the first trading day after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Still, in percentage terms, the decline remained well below the Read Full Article

Deal reached on financial markets bailout

September 28, 2008

$700 billion deal aimed at saving the nation's shaky economy from collapse WASHINGTON - Congressional negotiators and the Bush administration's top Treasury officials go to work Sunday on settling the final details of a historic $700 billion Wall Street bailout aimed at keeping credit flowing and saving the nation's shaky economy from collapsing into a crippling recession. "We've made great progress. We have to get it committed to paper so that we can formally agree," House Speaker Nancy Read Full Article

Lawmakers cite progress on huge bailout deal

September 27, 2008

By Sunday we will have an agreement,’ says Rep. Barney Frank WASHINGTON - Lawmakers say they're making progress and hope to reach an agreement over the weekend on a $700 billion government bailout to rescue Wall Street bankers from the bad loans that threaten to derail the economy and send it into a deep and long depression. In a sign of movement, House Republicans dispatched their second-ranking leader, Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, to join the talks after their objections to an Read Full Article

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