Jordan Graham's (jordanlgraham) Blog

What a great forum to ask this question -- one that burns in the minds of all of the mortgage people on ActiveRain.I have found that to form a genuine relationship with a real estate agent takes time -- years, sometimes.  I've formed new relationships with listing agents at the closing table (sti...

I'm going to take a moment to get technical and talk about the yield curve on US Government bonds, bills and notes; specifically, I'm going to address what an inverted yield curve is and why it's important to you.The yield curve is a graph that plots yields (that's an interest-rate adjusted retur...

What a relief!Police in Tucson pulled over the Weinermobile after running its license plates ("Y-U-M-M-Y") -- which showed up on their computer as having been stolen -- but rest easy:  it was only the license plate that had been stolen, and the vehicle was sporting its replacement plates.No word ...

If only it were limited to a handful of lenders making aggressive loans to some irresponsible borrowers. . . To understand how deep this goes, take a moment to look at what happens when a subprime loan is issued: The lender packages it with other similar loans and sells the bundle to Wall Street,...

We've seen interest rates rising globally in response to two factors -- increased energy costs and economic growth. Domestically, inflation is being measured as within the margin that we'd like to see, although some economists judge that our key benchmark (the "core" CPI) understates inflation. T...

Originally published at www.thedollarlama.comThe New York Times reported on Saturday that Bear Stearns is acting to bail out one of its investment funds (Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Fund) as it experiences investment losses related to the subprime loan market.  Here we see two oppos...

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Looking ahead to this week's meeting of the Federal Reserve Board governors, speculation has moved past current inflation (with last week's release of the Philly Fed data, showing the "core" consumer price index for May down in the 1% range) to where inflation is going to be a year from now.With ...

In a past life I had a property management company for ski condos in Colorado's Summit County, and I got a weeklong booking once because I had a button on my website that would initiate an AOL instant messaging session. I happened to be working at my computer (and honestly, I'm in front of my com...

Today the Philadelphia Fed will release its monthly index of the economy, and it's widely expected to continue to support the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates where they are (the Fed rate hasn't been changed since June of 2006.) One key benchmark that they'll take into account is the "Core ...