Mortgages & Lending by Florence Foote | December 7, 2009 
As pretty much everyone realizes by now, the Obama administration’s efforts to convince banks to modify troubled loans has been little more than window dressing. Despite the $75 billion promised to fund the program, only a fraction of the people it was intended to help have received any aid. The problem of homeowner defaults has [...]
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Ever notice that governments are so much better at sending in troops for war then sending in help for domestic problems…such as homeowners facing or being in foreclosure? The latest example, I think, is Afghanistan. The President has decided to deploy thousands of more troops (possibly 34,000 according to the Washington Post) to that hell-hole, [...]
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Joshua Dorkin
Obama to Send Approximately an Additional 34,000 Troops to Afghanistan; Why Not Use Them to Fix Housing Instead?
by Charles Feldman | December 1, 2009Ever notice that governments are so much better at sending in troops for war then sending in help for domestic problems…such as homeowners facing or being in foreclosure? The latest example, I think, is Afghanistan. The President has decided to deploy thousands of more troops (possibly 34,000 according to the Washington Post) to that hell-hole, [...]