Posts Tagged “Metric”

News Sources wrote an interesting post today on
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Office of Thrift Supervison’s (OTS) Mortgage Metric Report for the second quarter of 2009 has been released (rather quietly might we add), and while many aspects of the report were widely expected, there was one new inclusion that particularly caught our attention. In early September we warned that the pending resets of interest-only adjustable-rate mortages (ARMs) posed a significant threat to the long-term recovery of the hous

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News Sources wrote an interesting post today on
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To Our Clients, Colleagues and Friends, We’re always harping on people to do a better job of reporting (“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”), and the best mortgage company reporting we ever saw was a Countrywide presentation. It sliced and diced every aspect of their business you could think of. We don’t think it’s an accident that they were so hugely successful for so long, and we think a lot of it had to do with the deep understanding they had of their metric

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News Sources wrote an interesting post today on
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Most of us imagine recessions as a V shape on a graph. Things are good, then they go bad, hit bottom, and go back up again. Using the S&P 500 as a metric of the economy you can see we’ve got the beginning of a pretty good looking “V”. Special note, this graph has been reposted WITHOUT the permission of Yahoo Finance. This is copywritten material, but I love Yahoo Finance so much I’m using the chart. Please Yahoo don’t be upset, you’re getting a free plug. I love you! I w

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