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According to Jay Brinkmann, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), "Loans 90 days or more past due now account for half of all delinquencies, the highest share in the history of the MBA survey...
...Then there's the elephant in the room: jobs. The U.S.'s unemployment rate, which stood at 9.7% in February, is expected to hit at least 10.3% before peaking later this year, according to Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody's Economy.com. Says Brinkmann: "The fundamental driver in demand for housing still comes down to jobs." (See 10 ways your job will change...
...home closed by June 30.) Expect lobbying efforts calling for the credit to be extended a second time to escalate as the expiration date draws closer - similar to what happened in the weeks leading up to the first expiration date. But not all experts are on board. Jay Brinkmann, chief economist with the Mortgage Bankers Association, says he would not like to see the program extended a second time. "They work best if they're somewhat rare and short-lived," he says of such programs...
...Brinkmann, who also lives near Washington, almost got burned when his bank omitted a $750 closing-cost credit that had been promised to him as an existing bank customer. "They didn't leave it out on purpose," surmises Brinkmann, who has a Ph.D. in finance and bases his conclusion on the fact that his title and appraisal charges were off by $200 from what he expected, but this time in his favor...
...year-old mystery. The prince's mass grave was exhumed twice in the 19th century, and both times its only tubercular remains were declared to belong to an older boy. Still, Philippe Delorme, a French historian who had pressed for the DNA tests, is convinced by Cassiman and Brinkmann's work. "Clearly, the finding spells the end of this example of the eternal myth--that of the little prince and the hidden king," says Delorme. "Perhaps we should undertake, as I do, the spiritual and philosophic venture of looking for the little prince that sleeps within...