Our vote is for the 17,000 square foot converted church on Delores Park in hometown San Francisco. Click picture to view slideshows and cast your vote.

The WSJ reports today that, “The Obama administration is trying to push through a settlement over mortgage-servicing breakdowns that could force America’s largest banks to pay for reductions in loan principal worth billions of dollars.” This is a good update on a sticky topic: should banks be forced to reduce mortgage balances for distressed homeowners [...]

This is a great interactive tool from Wall Street Journal where you can see unemployment rate for your profession. Click sample chart to get to page where you can build your own chart.

Bond Bubble? WSJ has the latest bond bubble talk, saying bond markets are growing riskier as investors seeking steady returns bid up prices and ignore some early warning signs similar to those that flashed during the credit bubble. Last week, prices on high-yield, or junk, bonds hit their highest level since 2007, nearly double their [...]

The Wall Street Journal just posted a list of what they think the top 10 finance blogs are at the present time. No surprises for those who read finance blogs regularly, and good reference links for those who don’t. The good part is that they didn’t link to blogs run by big media sites, they’re [...]

Attack of the FHA loan files? Most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. So by my calculations, that means that this Sunday here in the U.S. most of us “fall back” and it [...]

Wall Street Journal doing satire? “Christmas list swaps?” Not sure this is funny, nor a good idea for the WSJ.

UBS and its predecessor organizations have a long and global reputation for safeguarding the assets of the world’s wealthy people and entities. Now that the bank is buckling under the weight of its $48 billion in write downs so far this year, the Swiss government clearly recognizes how importance of keeping UBS alive and will [...]

This graph was in the WSJ Opinion page today along with an article questioning the Obama tax proposal. Interesting, but consider the conservative source: One of Barack Obama’s most potent campaign claims is that he’ll cut taxes for no less than 95% of “working families.” He’s even promising to cut taxes enough that the government’s [...]

Nothing aggravates and annoys me quite as much as journalists, investors, or anyone else for that matter, taking a short term view of things and predicting catastrophe (oh, and the British of course). The world (outside of Britain that is) is a pretty elastic and adaptive place. Things happen for a reason, people adapt and [...]