Posts tagged washington

• The Ignorance of the SEC

  Paul Kiesel | January 27, 2009 2:42 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A Preface Concerning The Washington Times Maybe, I think, I can get the Washington Times expelled from the association (the American Society of Newspaper Editors. - Al Franken on the scandalous...

• Washington Post: Report Confirms Source of Contaminated Heparin

  Paul Kiesel | December 04, 2008 8:38 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  From HealthDay News and the Washington Post: WEDNESDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- A final report on the deadly contamination of the blood thinner heparin confirms that the problem was caused by a...

• White House to Ease Many Rules Aimed at Protecting Consumers

  Paul Kiesel | October 31, 2008 6:41 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Media outlets and blogs have been reporting for the past two weeks that the White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, which would strip many government rules that protect...

• Washington Post: Government and Wall Street Grapple with Finding a Foreclosure Fix

  Paul Kiesel | October 27, 2008 4:39 PM | 2 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Below is an Associated Press article from Sunday's (10/26) Washington Post. It's a very well written analysis as to why the government and Wall Street have been having such a hard time coming to...

• Bear Stearns Executives to Face Criminal Charges

  Paul Kiesel | June 18, 2008 4:06 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Criminal charges are being filed against managers of two Bear Stearns hedge funds whose collapse triggered the credit crisis last year, this according to the Wall Street Journal. Following...

• Questionable Housing Relief Data - Foreclosure Rate Likely Higher

  Paul Kiesel | June 17, 2008 8:11 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The most recent data released on the number of subprime mortgage borrowers who've received help by lenders over the last few months, is likely dubious in its accuracy or its detail. And,...

• Washington Post: The Bubble - An Excellent Survey of the Subprime Lending Debacle

  Paul Kiesel | June 16, 2008 8:37 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  This past weekend, The Washington Post began a three-part series that examines all of the avarice, pride, and myopic lending during the subprime boom. Overall, the series, written by Alec Klein...

• Mortgage Mess: Privatized Profits and Socialized Risk

  Paul Kiesel | June 10, 2008 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As lawmakers make final adjustments and revisions to the House and Senate Housing Bills that will head to President Bush's desk in the coming weeks, I have to ask: Why is it taking this long to help...

• McCain Will Not Fix Foreclosure Crisis

  Paul Kiesel | May 27, 2008 7:14 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been outspoken critics of John McCain's foreclosure remedies on their respective campaign trails, saying that Sen. McCain would be lackadaisical in his...

• The Next Mortgage Crisis: Prime Borrowers

  Paul Kiesel | May 12, 2008 3:48 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The time is coming when interest rates will reset in prime loans that were given to people with good credit in the last two years. These resets will have ramifications that are as bad or worse than...