Here is a simple question: 'how do you protect or even augment your portfolio returns when markets are crashing or where there is syste...

This is a fascinating talk by Robert H. Frank, author of the 'Economic Naturalist', the talk covers some exciting topics, including tha...

The repossession guide has been getting some renewed attention as the economy deteriorates so we decided to post it again so that peopl...

We have been saying for some time that interest rates on mortgages must rise, you can look at supply and demand, or you can look at the...

(podcast here) Verleger talks about oil falling to c. $20 which may seem outlandish at the moment but the reality is that oil will lik...

A part of me feels bad about not having any pity for some of the people who recently had their homes repossessed. Note: I said some not...

This is an interesting animated film on the origins of the crisis, it holds with the view that banks were only ever a part of the probl...

Joe Saluzzi of Themis Trading (I mistakenly read the link initially as 'the mistrading'!) have recently published a paper which accuses...

There was an article in one of Ireland's national newspapers last week describing the major issues surrounding the rescinding and subse...

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