Many newer readers of The Simple Dollar haven’t been exposed to the hundreds of great articles in the archives of the site, so this is a weekly series that highlights the five best posts from one year ago this week, … Read More
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Great News !!!!! Idaho $8,000 First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Extended into 2010! As Well As A New $6,500 Tax Credit for Certain Existing Home Owners! The $8,000 tax credit for First-Time Home Buyers has been extended into the first … Read More
Good news for Massachusetts first-time home buyers arrived this Friday, November 6th, when President Obama signed into law legislation extending and expanding the Federal Housing tax credit. The tax credit is now not only for MA first-time home buyers, but for qualified … Read More
From The Telegraph: Bank of England says financiers are fuelling an economic ‘doom loop’ On the eve of the G20 meeting of finance ministers in Scotland, Andy Haldane, the Bank’s executive director for financial stability warned that the relationship between … Read More
The latest foreclosure figures from First American CoreLogic show a growing divergence in what’s happening to problematic mortgages in Orange County. The ratio of bank-owned houses and condos, known as REO, against all outstanding first mortgages declined for the 13th … Read More
“You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people to get what they want!” - - Zig Ziglar The response received from last years post “Is Your Attitude Killing or Driving Your Business,” … Read More
Bank regulators late Friday closed United Commercial Bank of San Francisco — with 3 branches in Orange County. Details … It’s the 120th U.S. bank to fail this year and 14th in California. All deposit accounts, excluding certain brokered deposits, … Read More
Sunrise in the East United Commercial Bank Sunsets in the West by Soylent Green is People From the FDIC: East West Bank, Pasadena, California Assumes All the Deposits of United Commercial Bank, San Francisco, California United Commercial Bank, San Francisco, … Read More
Note: This was before the FDIC seized four banks today. This is an unofficial list of Problem Banks. Changes and comments from surferdude808: The steady climb in members on the Unofficial Problem Bank list continued this week despite the failure … Read More
Remember when email was the killer app? Sure, it’s still all that, but Generation Y is all a-twitter with a wave of new communication technologies. Faster. More interactive. Posterous Illustration Blogging’s all the rage today – well at least it … Read More