With all the Coronavirus inspired loans, backlogged refinance applications, and stalled mortgage applications for purchases, are lenders still taking applications for personal lines of credit? I feel like they may jus...

8.00 am in Grand Central today; Monday, March 16th. You would be forgiven for thinking it was Christmas Day....except, of course, Christmas Day is quite busy at Grand Central.
It seems the entire of NYC is working fr...

8.00 am in Grand Central today; Monday, March 16th. You would be forgiven for thinking it was Christmas Day....except, of course, Christmas Day is quite busy at Grand Central.
It seems the entire of NYC is working fr...

How will the actual crisis impact the real estate market in your opinion?
The fact is that , justified or not, the crisis has already hit many businesses including hospitality & tourism, transportation, financial...

Economic Update
(Monday, June 22, 2020)

The recession that started in March was the sharpest downturn since the Great Depression. As it turns out, it may also be the shortest. This doesn't mean our economy is ...

This is my day job, and it's been both horrifying and interesting watching our healthy capital markets gradually deteriorate into a Michael Lewis financial disaster book.  Thought it might be interesting to share war ...

Had a very bad experience yesterday and not being tech savvy cost me $439.

They say a sucker is born everyday but I must admit this was a great con job, if in fact this was a con.

I came home yesterday ...

There have been a couple long threads lately about inflation, hiperinflation, and deflation. there are also economists, econ grads, students etc posting on these subjects.
My questions are as follows:

1. If you ...

Hello reader, thanks for stopping by.I bought an apartment I plan on renting out. It’s a studio. The previous owners didn’t disclose that they had a mold problem. It smelled a little musty when doing the walkthroughs ...

I am perpetually game planning future moves and this exercise inevitably requires taking a position on how the near future will unfold and the best way to benefit. I am interested in hearing what BP users think is abo...