Credit Slips now has a Twitter feed. You can find us @CreditSlips on Twitter (as well as from the button to the right). We'll be trying to put our posts up there as well as retweeting from the Credit Slips authors. We also have added a button that will allow you to tweet individual Credit Slips posts on your own Twitter feed.
Credit Slips is a virtual community so very few of you know that I go to Starbucks at least once a day, although a small detail in the pic here was a hint in that direction.
For the last 18 months, I've served as the California Monitor for the National Mortgage Settlement at the request of California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris. Disclaimer: This post does not necessarily represent the views of the CA AG or CA DOJ. It's just me, Professor Porter writing. And what I wanted to write about is the first in a series of thoughts that I have about where mortgage servicing policy needs to go in the future.
The American Banker's lead article today is about how the Qualified Mortgage (QM) concept is really an enactment of the "plain vanilla" mortgage provision that the White House had unsuccessfully pushed to have included in what become the Dodd-Frank Act. That's just wrong.
On Friday, November 15, 2013, the American Bankruptcy Institute will hold a conference in its Alexandria Virginia Offices, and by webinar, entitled You Can’t Discharge Student Loans in Bankruptcy – Or Can You? The conference will run from 9:30 a. m.
