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 th

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

Yesterday, a Connecticut homeowner, Eric S. Scherz, 44, was sentenced by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for mortgage fraud.

Here’s what happened…

According to a press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut, in October 2007, M

Steve Dibert, MFI-Miami

“We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we’ve done. We comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn’t our fault. You cannot play God then wash your hands of the things that you’ve created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can’t hide from the things that you’ve done anymore.” -Commander Wil

Steve Dibert, MFI-Miami

Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestselling “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” series,  is bringing his version of Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show to the Motor City on March 18, 2013 to tell the masses of Detroit how to become rich in real estate.  Yes, that’s right you can learn how to pick yourself up out of the hood and move to B

Over the last 25 years, Michael Winston has held top management positions at Merrill Lynch, Motorola, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed Corporations.  He has been responsible at the most senior levels for issues related to organization structure, executive succession planning, leadership development and the management of large scale change.

He

The Illinois Supreme Court is the latest to get in the “Help Stop Foreclosures” game… which by the way can also be played at home… is no fun for the whole family and makes for lovely graft.  (Hey, if that didn’t make you laugh, you should go lie down.)

The new rules are are the result of public hearings and 21 months of work by the “Special S

David Min is a nationally recognized expert on financial markets regulation, the law and policy of banking, real estate finance, and capital markets.  From 2007 through 2009, David was a Washington D.C. “insider.”  He was Banking Committee counsel for Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), and then served as senior policy advisor and counsel for the Joint

Okay, so let’s start by remembering where we started on the housing and foreclosure crisis back in 2009… here’s President Obama’s delivering his speech that introduced his Making Home Affordable program on February 18, 2009.

Among other things, he says his plan will help save between 7 – 9 Million families so they can avoid foreclosure. But, t