This Old House

Big Firms Want BofA to Pay Back $47 Billion on Shoddy Mortgages

Following recent reassurances from three of the nation’s largest banks that the foreclosure paperwork kerfuffle won’t wreak balance-sheet havoc, Bloomberg reports that three huge players in the world of finance are saddling Bank of America with putback requests.

Bond-market titan PIMCO (“the authority on bonds”), private-equity giant BlackRock and none other than the Federal Read More

Two Fed Officials Endorse Easing

Presidents of two Federal Reserve banks — William Dudley of the New York Fed and Charles Evans of Chicago — today came out out in favor of additional monetary stimulus to the economy, suggesting that the scales may be tipping in favor of additional quantitative easing.

In a speech at the CUNY Journalism School Read More