Dan Mitchell of Cato Dan Mitchell of Cato (and the Centre for Freedom and Prosperity) is a guy I enjoy speaking and listening to as well, he is a great Libe... Continue reading
Irish Independent: Your Money, advice on keeping your home We got a mention in today's Indo in the 'Your Money' section, the story is about the one year freeze banks have on repossessions. The ... Continue reading
Best Mortgage Rates February 2010 There is increased coverage of mortgages in the press of late in particular in the area of fixing or staying on a variable, below are t... Continue reading
Why does a state owned bank subsidise depositors? There is concept in finance of a 'risk free rate', and normally that is seen as being the rate of return on money by a sovereign entity... Continue reading
Mortgage options down 50% as of 2010 The Examiner carried a story about the number of options available to borrowers in the present market and the fact that they have dropp... Continue reading
Are lenders cherrypicking? Banks deny that they are cherry-picking applications and brokers say otherwise. What I can say is that we are going through a credit ad... Continue reading
Bank of Scotland: They should have stuck to the broker channel I can't help but think that if Bank of Scotland had stuck to the broker channel that they wouldn't have been in the mess they are in no... Continue reading
Tax liabilities on negative cashflows? The perils of renting out your home There is an interesting situation that we are seeing much more of lately, where people in negative equity or negligible equity are deci... Continue reading