On TV: I get all populist on PBS

I’m the commentator tonight on the Nightly Business Report on PBS, which airs at 6:30 p.m. here in New York and whenever PBS says its on in your hometown. I talk about Fannie and Freddie and Bear and bailouts and such. For some reason I feel awkward posting the script now, before the segment has [...]

Richard Bitner explains the mortgage business

Richard Bitner, author of the new book Confessions of a Subprime Lender (known in its previous, self-published incarnation as Greed, Fraud & Ignorance), is going to be on the Daily Show tonight. He was here Friday, and was pretty entertaining and enlightening. I failed to videotape him, though. So watch him tonight, and in the [...]