Word: unraveling
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When the housing market started to unravel, RealtyTrac was in the right place at the right time. In 2005 the firm began issuing press releases on foreclosure trends to get media attention. It succeeded, and soon people were calling. Among them: New York banking superintendent Richard Neiman, who chairs the state's foreclosure-prevention task force. "If you're going to motivate legislators to change laws and apportion money, you've got to convince them there's a problem," he says. "You've got to start with the data." Collecting and analyzing data from the state's 62 counties would...
...matching system in place, even though we wouldn’t consider this to be a normal market.” According to Roth, prior to 1992, teams would get bowl bids before the season was over, thus resulting in inefficient matchups. “Lots of markets unravel over time, with participants making moves too early,” Roth said. “For example, the Sugar Bowl would offer a bid to a top-ranked team that has four games left,” Roth continued, “but if that team loses...
...Right before the markets began to unravel last year, Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, presciently quipped that he hadn't "felt this good since 1998," referring to the Wall Street wipeout precipitated that year by Russia's defaulting on its ruble debt. Blankfein argued that confidence in global markets had built up to a dangerously giddy level and that investors weren't being compensated for assuming outsize risk in securities like esoteric bonds and Chinese stocks. Blankfein was right, of course, but even he wasn't paranoid enough. Though Goldman stands, along with Morgan Stanley...
...euros per year, officials say. From this year onward, those funds are theoretically taxable, but Asscher admits that while prostitutes' income taxes could bring the city millions in revenues, few are likely to pay up - underlining the city's position that legalizing the sex industry has done little to unravel criminals' control over...
...Louisma] knew the parameters of this thing. I think he is prepared to assume responsibility for what he did at some point in time." Acosta has filed a not-guilty plea and cannot do appraiser work while the charges are outstanding. Housing experts are certain more schemes will unravel in Florida and beyond. As the mortgage institute's report states, "The unsettled state of the mortgage market as a whole does not bode well for avoiding fraud in the coming year...