Category Archives: financial crisis

10-Years Beyond The Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy: Seven Points To Ponder!

  Do you remember where you were on September 15, 2008, the day that Lehman failed unleashing the unintended consequences of a global financial crisis that began to foment and then snowball? Consequential events may not always appear to be so, and as Lehman Brothers was allowed to go under most of us may not have […]

What happens if your title insurance underwriter stops writing policies?

The transactional real estate market has recently been forced to face just such a situation when New Jersey Title was “asked” to cease writing policies insuring title for residential and commercial property purchases and refinances. This is yet one more chapter (or casualty) in the financial crisis and real estate collapse that began a few […]

New Jersey Title: What happens if your title insurance underwriter stops writing policies? | Hallmark Abstract Service LLC – JDSupra

New Jersey Title: What happens if you’re title insurance underwriter stops writing policies? | Hallmark Abstract Service LLC – JDSupra New Jersey Title, an underwriter of title insurance policies in the northeast, has become a casualty of a financial and real estate crisis that has taken many victims. Some of these casualties might never have […]

Video trailer of “Inside Job”, Academy Award winner for Best Documentary

Academy Award winning documentary on Wall Street, greed and lack of any prosecutions of the key players From the New York Times @font-face { font-family: “Cambria”; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: “Times New Roman”; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } “Inside Job,” a searing piece of muckraking on the causes […]