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Consumer Center for Resources will be hosting an event to inform consumers of their legal rights, and their options when struggling with foreclosure and financial hardship.

(Glendale, CA – May 28^th, 2013) – Consumer Center for Resources will be hosting an event to inform consumers of their legal rights and their options when struggling with foreclosure and financial hardship. The seminar will be held on Saturday, June 15^th 2013 at the Glendale Public Library Auditorium on 222 E. Harvard St. in Glendale, CA.

We have a new on-line magazine to cover stories, events, and happenings beyond the foreclosure crisis. We’ve collected more writers and are more able to offer regular content to readers. We’ve of cour...

Five years after the near complete financial meltdown of the economy in this country, resulting in millions of people losing their homes nothing has really changed. Despite the billions of dollars in settlement fees the banks have shelled out, bad press, and loss of trust, it’s pretty much business as usual. Actually it’s more blatant and brazen than ever.

Remember HAMP? What about HAMP 2.0? The mortgage modification programs the administration paraded out as a way to save millions of homeowners from foreclosure? The same program that Tim Geithner, during a congressional hearing, flippantly admitted in 2009 was never meant to help homeowners, but more a way to alleviate the stress of too many foreclosures coming in at once.

John Wright over at Piggy Bank Blog has had an on-going fervent argument with a particularly obnoxious individual who goes by the name "Hut Master." Over the past week James Aitken (that's his real name) has taken to email and Facebook to throw unfounded accusations John's way, calling him a shill and going into apparent frothy, drunken rants on various blog comments and Facebook, according to Wright.

In his latest post, he writes:

 

Yes, it’s true.  Scott Brown, the man Forbes magazine called Wall Street’s favorite congressman has new job as legal counsel for international law firm and high power lobbyist Nixon Peabody.

Scott Brown posing nude for Cosmo in the early 1980s.

In the three years, Scott Brown was in the U.S. Senate, bankers and Wall Street types credit him helping the GOP water down the Dodd-Frank Act and then working to defeat it after taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash from Wall Street insiders who opposed the passage of the bill.