Since I’m no longer actively working in the mortgage industry, I’m handing over this blog over to mortgage lender Aimee Ghimire, my wife and business partner. We worked together over at CTX Mortgage for several years and she is an outstanding loan officer with over five years of experience in the industry. Now she is [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
Strange Times We Live In….
To the rest of the world (from Bloomberg):
Eighteen months ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told an audience at the Shanghai Futures Exchange that China risked trillions of dollars in lost economic potential unless it freed up its capital markets.
“An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that [...]
FROM TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA
Sad, but true and wickedly hilarious (hat tip The Big Picture):
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
DEAR AMERICAN:
I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.
I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS [...]
Magical Piggy Bank Picture Contest
I saw this quote from Alan Greenspan and it made me smirk:
Don’t use Fed as a ‘magical piggy bank’
He’s referring to the recent Federal spending splurge, bailouts, tax payer refunds, the housing bill… the list goes on. That giant sucking sound Ross Perot used to talk about is actually a giant crane sound lifting dollar [...]
