More Apologies to Mortgage Fraud Victims

The comedy of errors continues as payouts trickle out to victims of wrongful foreclosures in the robosigning settlement case. A month after the first wave of checks began bouncing at banks around the country, another group of recipients are being told that they’ll get...

Bank of America: More Mortgage Settlement Troubles

Just when it seemed the dust was settling in the various lawsuits and settlements resulting from charges of mortgage and securities fraud leveled at the nation’s biggest bank, new reports reveal that Bank of America is once again in trouble. This time the financial...

How Can Student Loan Debt Hurt Housing?

In recent posts we’ve taken a look at the looming crisis of out of control student debt – a burden that many new and recent college graduates must shoulder for much, if not all, of their working lives – and which has a ripple effect in other areas of the economy as...

10 Warning Signs of Real Estate Fraud

Real estate fraud takes many forms and targets all areas of the housing market, with an impact on investors, homeowners and renters all over the country. Because these schemes can be hard to spot, we’ll wrap up this week’s intermittent series on housing related fraud...

Are Bullets Becoming the Next Bubble?

All across the US, bullets are vanishing from store shelves. Although the popularity of guns and gun ownership continues to rise in the wake of fears about gun control. The population of hunters, target shooters and owners of guns for personal protection hasn’t risen...