John Mulkey, Housing Guru

Unemployment and Why Housing Continues to Struggle Each month when the Labor Department releases the statistics on unemployment and job creations, the numbers often do little more than confuse. Some months it looks as if they’re improving and others they seem to reflect a recession that won’t lea...

While banks have repeatedly assured us that their foreclosure problems, commonly referred to as “ForeclosureGate,” are nothing more than “paperwork” problems, it seems this foreclosure crisis just won’t go away. And with 50 states’ attorneys general continuing to investigate the matter, more prob...

(With apologies for length) Willie Sutton, the famed bank robber of the 1930’s and 40’s once made the statement, "Go where the money is...and go there often," and though his lifetime take was said to be as much as $2 million, Sutton was a mere amateur.  His crimes are dwarfed by those of today’s ...