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ML Implode? How about Reverse Mortgage Lenders Vanish

Over the past 3 weeks we have seen the exit of at least 2 large wholesale players in the Reverse Mortgage market. Both have quietly packed up shop… No press releases and no major announcements about t... read more

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

Santa Cruz Mortgage files for bankruptcy

A total of 262 lenders have shut down since 2006, according to the Mortgage Implode-O-Meter, a Web site tracking the debacle. The court papers for Santa Cruz Mortgage list liabilities of $410,000, a f... 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

Elizabeth Warren Throws Down the Gauntlet on Leveraged Loans

She didn’t disappoint, blasting the $1.3 trillion market in a letter to regulators as a repeat of the subprime mortgage crisis ... in case they implode. It’s probably no coincidence that ... 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

New Hampshire Supreme Court Upholds Free Speech Rights for Online News Sites

The New Hampshire Supreme Court today issued an important decision upholding the ... Law Project and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in the case, The Mortgage Specialists, Inc. v. Imp... read more

What caused the mortgage meltdown?

Of the roughly 300 failed institutions listed on the Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter site, the vast majority were not chartered banks. Because they weren’t deposit-taking banks, they didn’t have to ab... read more

How Good Are Online Financial Services at Marketing?

Curiously, the Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter has more visits than the big lenders, and their traffic is up 161% from last year – what does that tell you about trust? Are FS marketers doing enough to ... read more

The Stock Market Economy

(FRED Economic Data, St. Louis) Given how much stock and bond prices were falling in real terms, it's surprising that the real economy didn't implode along with it ... with trillions of dollars per ye... 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

3 Ways To Mess Up A Home Mortgage Closing

Following are three things borrowers can do to mess up their next mortgage closing. Get A New Credit Card Or Auto Loan If you want to implode your impending mortgage, get a new credit card or auto loa... read more