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Mortgage Implode-O-Suit

Annelena Lobb checks in with this dispatch on a legal fight that has broken out around a popular subprime-related Web site: When Aaron Krowne created the Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter, a Web site th... read more

One decade after the financial crisis, here's how the financial system has changed

Safer mortgage lending Before the crisis ... Investors no longer worry as they once did that the financial system will implode. Yet despite the stock-price gains, there still isn't much widespread tru... read more

We're All Speculators Now

Back in the pre-financialization era (pre-1982), buying a house and paying down the mortgage to build home ... banks, etc. will implode if the risk-asset bubbles pop, few see the need to bother ... read more

Libel suit against Mortgage 'Implode-O-Meter' to proceed

Let's make 2018 your breakout year! Join real estate's best to unlock growth at Connect SF, July 17-20, 2018 A judge in California has ruled that a popular Web site that maintains a list of “imploded” ... read more

Site tracks mortgage lenders’ implosions

Every major event needs a witness or historian, and the meltdown of the mortgage industry is no exception. Implode-O-Meter has been keeping a scorecard of all the mortgage lenders that have run into t... read more

Subprime carnage and the Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter

Things are not looking good for hedge funds betting on risky home loans, reports the Wall Street Journal. Consider the volatility at Second Curve Capital — a hedge-fund firm run by Thomas Brown, a for... read more

Equity firm said to win bidding for IndyMac

The winner of the bidding for the Pasadena thrift is New York-based Dune Capital Management, founded in 2004 by ex-Goldman partners Steven Mnuchin and Daniel Niedich, according to the report on the Mo... read more

The Implode-O-Meter & the Law

When we first read about the Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter on the WSJ MarketBeat blog, we thought it was genius. Late last year, with impeccable timing, a 27-year-old computer geek named Aaron Krown... read more

10 Years Later: Learning From the Financial Crisis

Fannie and Freddie were the only sources of mortgage financing ... $5.4 trillion in securities outstanding that were ready to implode,” Paulson said. In a paper from the Brookings Center ... read more

A Decade Later: Safer Financial System Yet Much Hasn’t Changed

SAFER MORTGAGE LENDING Before the crisis ... Investors no longer worry as they once did that the financial system will implode. Yet despite the stock-price gains, there still isn't much widespread ... read more

Will Central Bank Policies Set off Another Global Financial Crisis?

Because they were the ones who largely manufactured the mortgage-related or toxic assets ... exit plan because it means that markets would implode, and that would be another source of real pain ... read more

Introducing the Hedge Fund Implode-o-Meter

They have answered the call. Just as we were wondering how to keep track of the hedge funds that had come a cropper during this subprime business, the people who brought a grateful world the Mortgage ... read more