Not even Mike Rowe would want this dirty job. In fact, it is hard to even imagine anyone sane wanting to be President, right about now. These guys have fought for almost two years and have spent nearly a billion dollars to secure the position.
Now here is what they will inherit (for real). The facts […]

The Pew Charitable Trust has just released a comprehensive 54 page report entitled: 

No, this is not a Halloween prank. The world economies (lead by the U.S.) are a total mess and, according to many economists, the most frightening fact is that the enormous cost of today’s financial rescues is just a drop in the bucket.
We have heard all the gory details and micro analysis by the daily-talking-heads, with […]

Despite the latest plunge in the markets (and the plunges have been historic), Jim Wiandt of Seeking Apha argues that the market feels like it just may be finding its sea legs again.
We are certainly not out of the woods yet, he states, and all signs point to a protracted economic slump. BUT, according […]

So what are buyers to do? Today is yet another day, another piece of evidence that waiting for mortgage rates to fall is a flawed financial strategy, as suggested in a piece from the Mortgage Reporter. Perhaps this review will help stimulate more mortgage activity.
Here is what is truly going on. Let us take […]

Real estate investors and professionals say financial and real estate markets in the U.S.will hit bottom in 2009 and continue to slump for much of 2010, according to a report released October 22, 2008, by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (read the full report), and as reported in the Baltimore Business Journal.
We have seen […]

The next shoe? If and when something is going to drop, you should know about it, beforehand, so that you can be proactive and strategic in your investment and management positions.
After years of plunging residential property valuations, commercial real estate (CRE) is now heading into the danger zone as  –office vacancies rise, stores close and hotel bookings fall.
All of […]

Act III: The Final 2008 Financial Bailout Act (It is law!) >> In a 263-171 vote, the U.S. House of Representative today, October 3, 2008, approved a massive spending plan — voted down in an earlier form Monday (9.29.08) – that will supply hundreds of billions of dollars in a federal effort to ease the credit squeeze […]

Not to pile on, as there is clearly more than enough material on the topic, but we at MarylandCommercialTitle.com believe it is very important for all of us to fully understand the origins of our financial crisis, IF we are to truly solve the problem (and safeguard this from ever happening again).
Here is an attempt to summarize […]

Read Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s statement, unedited …addressing the root cause of the credit crisis.

September 19, 2008: 10:24 AM EDT
WASHINGTON — Statement by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson.
Last night, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, SEC Chairman Chris Cox and I had a lengthy and productive working session with Congressional leaders. We began a substantive discussion on […]