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Former Goldman Sachs chairman Hank Paulson is not the only person supporting increased powers for the Federal Reserve: Obama Calls for Overhaul of Financial Regulations

“We can do this nice or we can do this rough.” —Tina Turner from Proud Mary OK, so this morning’s on-line Wall Street Journal provides

I am still amazed when I hear comments that the U.S. housing bubble started in this decade. In November 2001, I presented a paper at

So now JP Morgan is going to pay $10 per share for Bear Stearns? JP Morgan Agrees to Increase Bear Price By Kevin Kingsbury –

For those who want to understand the relationship of sex to mortgage fraud, The Franklin Cover-Up by Nebraska Senator John DeCamp is a must read.

The Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development after Jack Kemp was Henry Cisneros. Cisneros was HUD Secretary in the Clinton Administration from

As if last weekend’s shotgun merger agreement between Bear Stearns and JP Morgan was not wild enough, things just keep getting weirder. Bear Stearns stock

A great insight from Jim Willlie in his Golden Jackass March Newsletter. Imports to the US are slowing, but import prices are seriously in uptrend.