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...Wholesale prices and consumer prices rose 7.5 and 11.2 per cent, respectively, from a year ago last month....
...What about the other bits of the “other financial institutions category” — financial holding corps and central counterparties?...
...The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), in Commonwealth v Ibanez, recently upheld Massachusetts law and stated that “only the present holder of a mortgage is authorized to foreclose on the mortgaged property.”...
...Bank of America, JPMorgan and GMAC have halted foreclosures after learning that “robo signers” had rubber-stamped thousands of mortgage documents without checking their accuracy....
...Email Viral V Acharya...
...The pullback from car loans comes as borrowers are struggling to meet payments on their mortgages and, increasingly, on their credit cards....
...In effect, the managers’ prosperity depends upon a highly lucrative tax that they levy on savers....
...I get to that number by adding up the $15 billion of balance sheet cash, plus $11 billion from the sale of half of GMAC (or alternatively, the sale of the insurance and mortgage businesses should the sale...
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