Posts with tag HuffingtonPost

You may never have heard of the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS), but it's the culprit that enabled many of the "robo-signers" to perpetuate their foreclosure fraud. L. Randall Wray provides an excellent overview of the fraud in a three part series for the Huffington Post. Banks not only created MERS, but... Continue Reading »

If you've been following the ups and downs – mostly downs – of the federal Home Affordable Modification Program, you know that the HAMP has been one big bottleneck, with just a fraction of homeowners who apply succeeding in getting permanent modifications to their mortgages. Then two weeks ago the federal... Continue Reading »