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TitlePlus

  1. Robert Shiller of Yale: continuous workout mortgage with pre-planned & continually adjusted workout terms funded by insurance.
  2. Congress wants Fannie & Freddie (taxpayers) to forgive principal on 1st mortgages so 4 biggest banks don't lose $ on their 2nd mortgages.
  3. Underwater borrowers of BoA, Chase, Wells, Citi & Ally may be able to receive $ or help. Check out nationalmortgagesettlement.com.
  4. FT Digital Media Conf: Highlights? Dreamworks (spectacular animation video) and how mobile ads work (read: fearless prediction).
  5. FT Digital Media Conf: Day 2. Reports from Shazam, Disney, Universal, Facebook & Google. Message: Social media begins to drive content.
  6. FT Digital Media Conf: Day 2 tomorrow. Topics? TV as a platform, what's next for digital music, the e-book revolution, and much more.
  7. FT Digital Media Conf: Day 1 behind us. All the talk is about HTML5 and content fitting multiple devices - tablets, PCs, TVs, mobile phones.
  8. FT Digital Media Conf: Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube & now 'Delicious', talking data mining, privacy & giving user value.
  9. FT Digital Media Conf: Facebook IPO worth $100B? If investors think FB's approach is sustainable as a platform to monetize products & users.
  10. FT Digital Media Conf. So far, Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Evgeny Lebedev (Evening Std), Noel Penzer (AOL Huff Post) & John Ridding (FT).
  11. IMF's Christine Lagarde on few women in finance & the financial crisis: Would it have been different if there had been a "Lehman Sisters"?
  12. USA Today: Senate's payroll tax cut to be pd for by Fannie & Freddie borrowers in 2012 when their mortgage ins goes up by 0.1%.
  13. FT: If wages were at post-war average, each worker would be earning an extra $5,000 in 2011. Instead, corp. profits are up 25-30%.
  14. FT: With rates low, why not more refis? Analysts say because of tougher lending stds & banks' reluctance to pass on savings to borrowers.
  15. FT: Where the $$ is. Singapore opened its 1st casinos last year but next year will overtake Vegas in gross gaming revenue.
  16. FT: Barclay Bank CEO was paid 14.5 times more than average worker in 1979. Today? 75 times. BP's ratios are 16.5 & 63.
  17. FT: Housing market. With mortgage rates so low, who will the buyers be when rates go up?
  18. FT: Why have banks cut 200k jobs this year while making $35 billion in 3rd Qtr? Bonuses. NOT paying bonuses could've saved 60,000 jobs.
  19. FT: US Black Friday retail grew most since 2007; online shopping even higher. Has consumer confidence made a comeback?
  20. Glad to see the Dow closed above 12,000 but we probably shouldn't be holding our breath.