Jul 4, 2009 | via The Brownsville Herald
In the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Brownsville saw its own fair share of memorable stories and events in 2009. Comment?
Thursday | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Mesa Air Group Inc., parent of interisland carrier go!, said it anticipates that its fiscal-year loss for 2009 will be less than its loss in the previous year. Comment?
Wednesday | via Mortgage News Daily
Latest post Wed, Dec 30 2009 5:55 PM by Bryan Bledsoe. 28 replies. Viewed 2,378 times. Comment?
Texas' Now-Strong Banks Hold Lessons for Rest of U.S.
Wednesday Dec 30 | via KPRC-AM Houston
Part of the reason Texas banks have fared better is the superior Texas economy. "We did not have the high run-up of home prices and we did not have the subprime debacle." Texas banking Commissioner Charles Cooper says Texas bankers also learned how to better cope with banking disasters -- when hundreds collapsed in the 1980s. Comment?
Dallas-Fort Worth home prices dip slightly
Tuesday Dec 29 | via Denton Record-Chronicle
Dallas-Fort Worth home prices were down by just a whisker in the latest gauge of the U.S. housing market. Comment?
BNY Mellon unit expects jumbo 2010
8 min ago | via Boston Business Journal
Bank of New York Mellon 's Boston-based wealth management division expects 2010 to be another big year for jumbo mortgages. Comment?
Revisiting Bush's Ownership Society
3 hrs ago | via The Left Coaster
Recently the Atlantic published an article by Hanna Rosin about the role the prosperity gospel had in creating the financial crisis. Comment?
Decade's top stories show where it all went wrong fo...
5 min ago | via Star-telegram.com
By EILEEN AJ CONNELLY It was a decade of living dangerously.With interest rates low and lending standards lower, credit became the currency of the decade.Exotic mortgage products helped housing prices more than double. Comment?
Banks borrow less from lending program
5 min ago | via Star-telegram.com
By JEANNINE AVERSA WASHINGTON - Banks borrowed slightly less from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over the past week, a sign that credit stresses are easing.The Fed, in a report issued Thursday, said commercial banks averaged $18.74 billion in daily borrowing over the week that ended Wednesday. Comment?
Last decade burst many investors' bubbles
5 min ago | via Star-telegram.com
By TIM PARADIS NEW YORK - A string of exploding investment bubbles that started with the dot-coms and ended with mortgages and oil dominated 2000 to 2009. Comment?