Broad Oak Magazine

Victims of Equitable Life are to be paid off by the taxpayer, says the FT . Equitable Life ran a with-profits fund, a form of collective inv...

If we fiscalize all of these losses the U.S. may fast lose its AAA sovereign debt rating and eventually end up like an insolvent banana repu...

A very stimulating response from "Caronte" to the earlier post on debt reduction , so I've taken the liberty to bring the argu...

In one version of the Lord's Prayer, the word "debts" replaces "trespasses", and this is in keeping with the etymolo...

Karl Denninger says house prices over the last 100 years have averaged three times income. What's the implication for us? This BBC surv...

Steve Moyer gives a pretty clear (occasionally a bit aerated) potted history of the woeful train of events, over the ten years from the star...

Karl Denninger comments on the proposals to make banks write down some outstanding capital on loans, to secure what's left of the bankin...

Karl Denninger comments trenchantly on a new scheme by "Fannie Mae", the government-sponsored mortgage lender: "Homesaver Adv...

Michael Panzner directs us to John Hussman , who explains that the Federal Reserve's power to manage the financial system is very limite...

"Genesis" at Market Ticker explains that US lenders who colluded in fraudulent mortgage applications can be forced to have the pr...

Much of the nation's wealth seems to be tied up in our houses, which don't appear to be very productive from an economic standpoint....

Some voices and topics from Financial Sense , 25 August : inflation, deflation, gold, cash... Jim Puplava : ...I've had Bob Prechter on ...

Surely, people who can't afford their mortgages don't have big investments. So aside from default losses impacting on portfolios, I ...

Peter Schiff in FXStreet today mounts a vigorous defence of his record of warning us that subprime problems would spill over into other cre...

Jim Willie of the Hat Trick Letter thinks that bank selloffs of gold are to make dodgy bonds look better than they are. If the mortgage bo...

An informative piece in Dr Housing Bubble on the various factors that are turning the housing market upside down. If I read the first graph...