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A Solution That Works: How To Stop The Housing Crisis Today

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A Common-Sense Plan to Stabilize the Markets, Stop The Death Spiral of Decreasing Property Values, Halt Foreclosures and Keep Americans In Their Homes

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President Bush signed into law the hotly-debated financial bailout plan on October 3, 2008. In doing so, the real problem was not solved. We need to keep homeowners [...]

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Fed Makes Emergency Move to Stabilize Markets. Will It Help?

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Fed’s Solution to Market Meltdown: Buy Up More Short-Term Debt
The Federal Reserve announced today that they will be invoking Depression-era powers to buy “commercial paper”, which it hopes will provide struggling companies with money to pay their bills.
In this action, the Fed basically becomes a source of credit for nonfinancial business, in addition to the traditional [...]

Filed in Economic News | Also tagged Ben Bernanke, Commercial Paper, credit, Dow, Fed, Fed Chairman, Federal Reserve, financial meltdown, foreclosure, House Market, Max Bublitz, property values, SCM Advisors, stock market | Comments (4)

Markets Need More Than Random Acts of Congress Says Columnist Baum

Monday, October 6, 2008

Bloomberg columnist Caroline Baum, others believe latest legislation from Washington won’t be enough to heal financial markets.
Excellent Op-Ed piece that appeared this morning on Bloomberg.com from columnist Caroline Baum. Baum takes a look at why Friday’s “emergency” legislation won’t be enough to solve the continued economic issues we’re faced with. Baum trots out a number of alternative plans that never [...]

Filed in Opinion | Also tagged Bloomberg News, Caroline Baum, Emergency Economic and Stabilization Act of 2008, Financial Bailout, Financial Crisis, Financial Opinion, foreclosure, Home prices, Market News, Market Turmoil, Marketfield Asset Management, Michael Aronstein, Paul O'Neill | Comments (0)

The Bailout Plan: $700 Billion and Markets Are Still Jittery

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Will the Government Bailout Plan Work? Financial Markets Are Still Nervous, Should We Be?
Interesting article from Yahoo and the Associated Press around the challenges still ahead, in spite of the $700 billion dollar banking bailout plan signed into law by the President today:
Bailout signed, now it’s wait and see its effects
From the article:
The immediate response to [...]

Filed in Economic News | Also tagged bailout plan, banking, Congress, Economic Plan, Financial Bailout, Financial Crisis, Financial Rescue, Fixing The Mortgage Mess: Interview with CNBC, foreclosure, foreclosure rates, foreclosures, government bailout, home values, Housing Crisis, Housing Market, lending, Mortgage, mortgages, Senate, stock market | Comments (1)

Read The Plan

Saturday, October 4, 2008

A Common-Sense Plan to Stabilize the Markets, Stop The Death Spiral of Decreasing Property Values, Halt Foreclosures and Keep Americans In Their Homes
Download a PDF of the Plan!
President Bush signed into law on October 3, 2008 the hotly-debated financial bailout plan, but in doing so, didn’t solve the real problem. We need to keep homeowners [...]

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