Tag Archive | "home-equity"

The Tweeners

Thursday, February 10, 2011

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I’m a tweener right now. Probably most of us in the Northern Hemisphere are! A “tweener” is what I call a person who is stuck between one weather season going out and another struggling to get in. In other words– we’ve reached the end of our tolerance for one season, and are eager to get [...]

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Evoking Bells and Whistles

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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Interesting news from Bloomberg this morning: the second-largest U.S. securities firm is tightening the home-equity belt. Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest U.S. securities firm, told thousands of clients this week that they won’t be allowed to withdraw money on their home-equity credit lines, said a person familiar with the situation. Most of the clients had properties [...]

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