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  1. Thanks to mortgage servicers hiring all those 'loan mod' service 'professionals' the US jobless rate fell to 10% in Nov. Now, if only...
  2. Lend America Haiku: Lend America, What happened to you, oh lender? Even Rudy No Help
  3. When we asked HUD secy SD recently if FHA would raise premiums he said 'maybe.' Now HUD is saying yes. Story was first reported by NMN.
  4. Looks like Lend America has lawyered up big time. See the NMN website Tuesday at 5 p.m. or so: http://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/
  5. The industry is now jockeying for position on the 10% risk retention rule (MBS),,,this time in the Senate. See NMN upcoming.
  6. Gold at almost $1200 an ounce today. Another asset bubble? If so, who gets hurt?
  7. From Barclays: A bill in the House was recently been amended to include potentially significant language governing repo and secured funding.
  8. I have to run out and get Sarah Palin's new book -- so I can burn it!
  9. More firms are looking into expanding their correspondent networks in 2010. But can they challenge BoA and Wells?
  10. I will be on the radio later this week talking about the market. More info to follow.
  11. Prices of higher rated subprime ABS are getting a bit too pricey, or so I'm told by a few vulture like executives who play in the market.
  12. S&P has downgraded Barbados' (the nation) fiscal condition to negative from stable. May be a good time to buy land there?
  13. Citi and Wells are selling small pools of nonperforming residential loans. However, they aren't giving out any details on the deals. Why?
  14. Lend America is indeed going into wholesale. See the NMN site soon for an update: http://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/
  15. Lone Star, the PE firm, wants to invest $20B into distressed mortgages, so says the WSJ. LS has been kicking around this industry for years.
  16. Some interesting commentary in Freddie's SEC filing on its exposure to Capmark, MI, and other matters. See the NMN website later today.
  17. Goldman, Morg and JPM will pay $29.7 billion in bonuses early next yr. Can you spell 'Popular Uprising'? Protests and blood down on Wall St.
  18. Just 9,700 shares of PennyMac have traded hands since the market opened. Earnings after the bell...
  19. Today's the big day for PennyMac. It releases its first earnings report as public company. See the NMN website later today for the story.
  20. For his book CNBC's Gasparino seems to have copied my idea that Wall St. is to blame. Don't bother reading his. Get 'Chain of Blame' instead