Congress has just passed the president’s stimulus package, and the increase of the conforming loan limit to include some “Jumbo” loans is in it. Once again the ID credits go to Professor Kevin Depew at Minianville: Congress gave final approval Thursday night to an economic stimulus package that would send government payments to more than […]
The large mortgage companies, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are government chartered quasi companies. They exist to enable a healthy and robust mortgage debt market, and before the age of Wall Street mortgage generation (which lead to one facet of the current debt and housing crisis) were pretty much the main source for money to […]
My co-blogger Bruce Henderson, as well as a number of other commentators in both new and old media, have raised concerns about the fall election prospects for Republicans given the disparity (typically around 2:1) between Democratic primary turnout and Republican primary turnout in the same state. However, Will Franklin over at WILLisms — who always […]
I was amazed to find this bit of data over at Time’s blog: Here are the numbers just for the 19 states where both parties had elections yesterday Obama/Clinton voters: 14,460,149 McCain/Romney/Huckabee voters: 8,367,694 Or, 73% more Democratic voters than Republican voters. A lot of this is huge Democratic numbers in New York and California. […]
…because I can. I’m sitting in the back of a sedan, on my way to a hotel somewhere on Long Island (NY), capping a rather hellish day of travel, thanks to repeated cancellations and delays. But, hey, at least I made it here. And if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. […]
As most of the readers here know, my team has been working with new technology to extract, refine and exploit information that is all around us. We have named that technology Boomerang and one example of it is an application called Hardtack. We are approaching the 1 year anniversary of full scale data gathering with […]
Tomorrow is “Super Tuesday” as they call it, the one day where the majority of the nominating delegates for each party are chosen on a single day. This year it’s larger than ever, with several states having moved their primary voting up to February 5th to play a relevant part in selecting the party’s presidential […]
A year ago there was a great deal of disagreement on this nation’s housing bubble, with the people invested long in real estate insisting that it was just “fair value” and that prices would continue ever higher, carrying those “wise” enough to get in at historically high costs to greater riches. To keen observers, the […]
Yes — we are having a full-blown thundersnow storm even as I type this. Mind you, no snow at all was forecast for tonight, at least not here in the front range (the plains east of the Rockies here in the Denver area). But we’ve had a full inch or so of snow fall in […]
Friday Afternoon – Doon The Watter
Friday afternoon has come in California. It’s a bright sunny day with temperatures near 70 across most of San Diego county, with the birds on my front porch singing and enjoying a full load of seed in the feeder. The cats are on my office futon couch in rapt attention as the birds queue up […]
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