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Check Out Bluzink Magazine - alternative thought for intelligent adultsRichard Zombeck 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 course expanded our topics to other areas.
Our purpose is simple: provide content that is informative, entertaining, and honest.
With a shared respect for information and the media, the contributors to bluZink come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, including an innate ability to communicate and to provoke thought.
Check out www.bluzink.com
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It's Business as Usual When it Comes to ForeclosureRichard Zombeck 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.
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A Worker Bee and a Wanna-beRichard Zombeck 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:
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The Latest News From the Headlines:
FDIC Sues Management of Failed Florida Bank for $48M - American Banker Article
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is seeking to recover $48 million from officers and directors of a Florida bank that collapsed in 2010 following heavy defaults on commercial real estate loans.
In a suit filed April 25 in a Florida district court, the FDIC alleges that the former executives and directors of Peninsula Bank in Englewood were lax ...
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Hunter’s Heroes Need Help
This next post comes to bluZink from a friend trying to help Hunter Darlange, a 16-year-old kid with Cerebral Palsy. The Darlange family is entered in a contest to win a wheelchair accessible van. Here's the kicker: if they win, and they might, they're going to need about $10,000 to claim the prize - white elephant anyone? Why the organization ...
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Elizabeth Warren Pushes Feds For Answer On Big Bank Enforcement
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Clinton certainly has the resume to be a strong presidential contender: two terms as the first lady during her husband's popular administration, eight years as a U.S. senator from New York and four as a widely-acclaimed secretary of state under President Barack Obama. Not to mention that she has already mounted a presidential ...
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IMF Questions Regulators On Big Banks
Top officials at the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday challenged financial regulators imposing far-reaching reforms on the biggest banks, arguing that the global benefits of reform efforts must outweigh their costs.
Officials including José Viñals, financial counsellor and director of the IMF’s monetary and capital markets department, said in ...
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