By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
You don’t have to be an expert to know that the media loves tragedy, and anything with the word Subprime in the last several months has qualified. Let’s face it, doom and gloom sells and I would love to see the circulation numbers on any newspaper that had the [...]

Borrowers Tap Mortgages of Last Resort
By JEFF D. OPDYKE
December 5, 2007; Page D1
Some mortgage seekers spurned by banks and other traditional lenders are turning to high-cost loans known as “hard-money mortgages.”
Once thought of as a last resort for strapped borrowers, these products — also called “private-money mortgages” — have different lending standards than traditional mortgages and carry [...]