While winter storms range around the United States, and George Bush is delivering pizza to his unpaid secret service detail, we enter the Martin Luther […]
For the first time in history, the six biggest banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — […]
Time has a way of slipping by. For example, I’ve really been meaning to transfer a bunch of Lotus 1-2-3 and Quattro Pro spreadsheets I […]
As pricing battles rage in the wholesale channel, there has been plenty of news of layoffs in residential lending over the last six months industry-wide, […]
Are rates too high given where the U.S. economy is? Traders, investors, and the Fed think they’re where they need to be, given the information […]
My cat Myrtle has never flown coach. She doesn’t have the same complaint I have of airline workers who don’t seem to realize that “full” […]
Regulators are encouraging financial institutions to work with borrowers affected by the government shutdown. After two weeks of a holiday workload, some folks are still […]
E Street Band (think Bruce Springsteen) aficionados know that today is Clarence Clemons birthday (he would have been 77). Music changes, although other things can […]
Let’s see… How much does it cost you to produce a residential loan? Pizza for the shippers, underwriter bonuses, copy paper, HP-12C batteries – it […]
The co-founder and former CEO of Southwest Airlines, Herb Kelleher, died last week. I mention this because I read his obituary and the article noted […]
