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Wells Fargo Attacking Home Ownership

New Orleans In the depths of the Great Recession it is still shocking to see how oblivious and irresponsible Wells Fargo manages to be every time we turn our heads they seem to be competing with Bank of America for which bank has been most irresponsible in this mess.  Now we see that part of [...]

More Mess on Securitization Foreclosures

New Orleans The top court in Massachusetts has now served notice on more pervasive foreclosure fraud in Wall Street’s securitization pools.  The court turned back two foreclosures as nothing more than grave dancing by US Bancorp and Wells Fargo, since they could not prove that they actually owned the title when they pulled the [...]

Debit Charges and Senate Hucksters

Dodd-Frank Bill

New Orleans The Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act called for the Federal Reserve to put an end to the debit card surcharge padding when that retailers were paying to banks and credit card companies, usually amounting to 44 cents a transaction.  New Fed proposals would cap the amounts at 7 to 14 cents, [...]

Bank Conflicts of Interest on Foreclosures and Modifications

Arizona Advocates and Action

New Orleans My god, pinch me!  Unbelievably the august New York Times in its editorial today has bellied up to the right side of the bar in pointing out the obvious and long noted (including by me!) conflicts of interests enjoyed by banks in the foreclosure game where they [...]

Mortgage Write Downs

New Orleans I’ve been harping on the drastic need for lenders (banks and their buddies) to write down significant parts of the homeowners’ outstanding balance to right size loans and prevent foreclosures, so I read an article in the Wall Street Journal by James Hagerty yesterday with eager anticipation hoping to find the industry was [...]

Foreclosure Mods Farce

New Orleans The scorecard is finally being written on the ballyhooed, though mostly baloney, loan modifications being done by big home mortgage loan servicers and trumpeted by the federal government (and largest shareholder in many of these outfits) as a real plan for foreclosure relief, and it stinks.  Gretchen Morgenson in a searing Times column [...]