Jared Kushner’s legal tax evasion shows how wealthy real estate investors steal from taxpayers

The New York Times published a new report showing how Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, largely avoided paying any federal income tax between 2009 and 2016. The financial documents the Times reviewed offer a detailed look at how real estate developers like Kushner and Trump manipulate the law to essentially steal millions of dollars - legally - from the American people.

Food aid matters to thousands of Utah households

More than 10 percent of Utahns are struggling with food insecurity , or limited or uncertain access to enough food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program makes a difference for thousands of Utah households, ensuring they have money for food and room in their budget to afford rent and other basic needs.

A bipartisan attempt at reform

Registration will allow you to post comments on GreenwichTime.com and create a GreenwichTime.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Terrified of alienating the activist bases of their respective parties, Democrats and Republicans in Congress rarely even try to compromise anymore.

The CFPB was a train wreck under Obama and it’s no better now

Remember when Elizabeth Warren was reminding everyone how important her brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was and how it was going to be turned into a tool of big business under President Trump? Wishful thinking at best, but closing in on two years under this administration, a Wall Street Journal analysis reveals that the bureau is still mostly up to their old tricks. In fact, to hear their description of it, you'd think Senator Warren would be proud.

Many women’s toiletries do cost more than men’s – and their mortgages might too, report finds

There is some evidence women pay more than men for mortgages, cars and auto repairs and have less access to small-business credit, a federal report has found. The "pink tax" is real: Many products aimed at women cost more than the versions men are supposed to buy - and women might also be paying more for gender-neutral things such as mortgages, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

Report Suggests More Taxpayers Will Owe Tax In 2019 Due To Insufficient Withholding

Why the confusion? In addition to the new tax rates , the TJCA made significant changes to itemized deductions normally claimed on a Schedule A. Those changes include limits on the deductions for state and local taxes, a cap on the amount that you can borrow for purposes of the home mortgage interest, and exclusions for job-related expenses. As a result, the Internal Revenue Service has encouraged taxpayers who itemize to do a checkup on their taxes .

Wells Fargo will pay $2.09 billion penalty over mortgages linked to financial crisis

Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $2.09 billion to settle a government probe into the bank's creation of mortgages riddled with flaws that the U.S. Department of Justice said contributed to the financial crisis that helped unleash the Great Recession, the government announced Wednesday. Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $2.09 billion to settle a government probe into the bank's creation of mortgages riddled with flaws, which the U.S. Department of Justice said contributed to the financial crisis that helped unleash the Great Recession, the government announced Wednesday.

IndyMac to cut positions

IndyMac Bancorp Inc. will lay off more than half of its employees and will no longer offer fixed-rate home mortgages, Michael W. Perry, the bank's chairman and CEO, said in a prepared statement Monday. Perry also announced that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has downgraded IndyMac's lending status from "well-capitalized," which means the bank can no longer accept brokered cash deposits without a waiver by the FDIC.

Are You Prepared for Hurricane Season and Other Storm Emergencies?

Hurricane season is in full swing, running from June through November. Unfortunately, no one can stop a tropical storm or hurricane from happening and both types of weather events are increasingly impacting larger portions of the U.S. However, there are steps you can take that will help you weather a storm and better ensure the safety of your family.

Trump’s GSE plan: Familiar solution, familiar problems

Since not long after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were seized by the government a decade ago, policymakers have been circling the same idea for how to revamp the housing finance system. Broadly speaking, that plan would privatize the two government-sponsored enterprises while providing an explicit federal backstop for the mortgage market.

How to prepare to buy a home

The housing market seems to be heating up nationally and even in our small town. With that being the case, I would like to share a few tips and try to offer a better understanding of the home buying and mortgage process for both seasoned and 1st time home-buyers alike from someone's perspective who has sat on both sides of the desk as a loan officer and consumer.

Mortgage rates fall for the second week in a row

A Freddie Mac sign stands outside the company's headquarters in McLean, Virginia, U.S., on Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat and a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said a bipartisan bill to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is too complicated and doesn't do enough to address too-big-to-fail concerns or provide assistance for affordable housing.

A banner week for GOP’s agenda to ease burdens on banks

On Thursday, President Trump signed the biggest rewrite of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law since President Barack Obama signed it after the 2008 financial crisis. President Trump and congressional Republicans, with the help of some Democrats, are enjoying a sudden burst of progress in their agenda to lighten regulations on the financial industry.

Fannie Mae advocacy ban doesn’t stop lawyer from pushing views

For nearly a decade, a top housing regulator has restricted Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from trying to influence the raging debate over whether they should live or die. But despite those limits, a top Fannie Mae executive has done just that over the past few months, quietly meeting with people inside and outside President Donald Trump's administration, according to people familiar with the matter.