by CalculatedRisk on 12/02/2008 11:15:00 PM

This is a work in progress (I still have about July 2007 through August 2008 to add). I've already added her last 10 or so posts.

Tanta wrote a variety of posts. Many long, some short. Sometimes she would post a few short excerpts from articles, usually to cover for me while I was away from my desk.

To publish her first several posts, Tanta would email her article to me, and I'd publish it - so the byline says "Calculated Risk". Starting in March 2007, she started writing under her own byline.

I suggest reading the comments to some of the posts too. Tanta was quick witted, and very funny.

This is chronological.


Let Slip the Dogs of Hell 12/15/2006

On Hybrids, Teasers, and Other Mortgage Guidance Problems 12/21/2006

Information is Power, Which is Why You Don’t Get Any 1/15/2007

Tanta on "Scratch and Dent" Loans 1/31/2007

Mortgage Servicing for UberNerds 2/20/2007

A Tantamentary on "Messier Mortgages" 3/05/2007

NOTE: This is Tanta's first post under her own byline:

The Dawn of A New Era 3/21/2007

Private Mortgage Insurance for UberNerds I: The Loss Severity 3/21/2007

Cole Testimony: Cui Bono? 3/22/2007

Private Mortgage Insurance for UberNerds II: Flows, Pools, Bulks, and Captives 3/22/2007

FHA: Out of the Dark Ages 3/24/2007

Freddie Mac Reports 3/25/2007

Charlotte Observer: The Power of the Press 3/25/2007

Unwinding the Fraud for Bubbles 3/26/2007

The Other Shoe About to Drop: Subprime Servicing 3/27/2007

Braunstein Testimony on Subprime: Supply or Demand? 3/28/2007

ARM Disclosures: This Is Only a Test 3/29/2007

AP: Late Payments on Consumer Credit 3/29/2007

Dr. Goolsbee: I’ll Stop Impersonating an Economist If You Quit Underwriting Mortgage Loans 3/30/2007

Fulton Financial Alt-A Repurchases 3/31/2007

Washington Post on Michigan Foreclosures 3/31/2007

Take a Calculated Risk on Me 3/31/2007

A Walk Down the Subprime Memory Lane 4/01/2007

Hark! The Herald Angelo Sings! 4/02/2007

Tanta Makes a Confession 4/03/2007

Alt-A: Another Exceptionally Well-Disguised Blessing 4/05/2007

UBS Sues New Century 4/05/2007

While You Were Out . . . 4/06/2007

I Took a Little Calculated Risk . . . 4/07/2007

Foreclosure Sales and REO For UberNerds 4/07/2007

Unpaid Condo Dues Threaten More Foreclosures 4/09/2007

How to Catch a Falling Knife 4/10/2007

Bagholder Bondholder Liability: Can’t Have That 4/10/2007

Option ARMs: The Band Plays On 4/11/2007

Washington Post: Bailout Update 4/12/2007

Fannie Mae on 2007 ARM Resets 4/12/2007

Foreclosure Moratorium: See "Details, Devil In" 4/19/2007

FHA and Subprime: Who Is Taking the Fraud Risk? 4/13/2007

My Calculated Risk Has Just Been Sold! 4/14/2007

Saturday Box of Rocks Blogging 4/14/2007

MBS for UberNerds I: GSE Pass-Throughs 4/14/2007

Fitch on Subprime Early Defaults 4/16/2007

GSEs Announce New Subprime Take-Outs 4/17/2007

Alt-A Update: "Completely Manageable" 4/17/2007

Alt-A Update: Downey Reports 4/18/2007

Neg Am and Lender Accounting 4/18/2007

Freddie Mac's Syron on Subprime 4/18/2007

Fannie Mae's Mudd on Subprime 4/19/2007

"Bailouts" for UnterNerds: The Freddie Mac Story 4/19/2007

Foreclosures Bring the Frauds Out 4/19/2007

Alt-A Update: Bear Goes Bearish 4/19/2007

MBS For UberNerds II: REMICs, Dogs, Tails, and Class Warfare 4/20/2007

Things You Don't Need to Know About Subprime 4/20/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging: I'm Not Subprime . . . 4/21/2007

Massachusetts Mortgage Summit Recommendations 4/23/2007

Mortgage Fraud Update: Wall Street Gets Fleeced By the Little Guy 4/25/2007

Alt-A Update: First Federal Reports 4/25/2007

Prime Update: Freddie Mac Delinquencies 4/25/2007

Regulatory Response Update: Hit Me Again 4/26/2007

But Is the Message Worth the Money? 4/27/2007

Ranieri on the MBS Market: It's Broke 4/28/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging: Roaring Twenties Edition 4/28/2007

Subprime: The 50% Problem 4/29/2007

Subprime Update: Let the Litigation Begin 4/30/2007

Alt-A Update: AHM Reports Tail Period 4/30/2007

The New York Times Needs a Business Reporter 5/01/2007

Pending Home Sales Down 5/01/2007

Freddie Mac Reports On Cash-Outs 5/02/2007

Beazer Update: Money Can Buy Me Love 5/03/2007

New Century Update: "Hardship" Is Relative, I Guess 5/04/2007

MBS For UberNerds III: Credit Risk, Credit Enhancement, and Ratings 5/05/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging 5/05/2007

Subprime Update: The Other Sorry Anecdote 5/07/2007

New Century Update: NEW Knew News 5/07/2007

Mother Theresa Update: The Ownit Story 5/08/2007

Paging Mr. Keynes 5/08/2007

HUD Proposes Ban on Seller Down Payment (Again) 5/09/2007

Unclear on the Concept 5/11/2007

U.S. Retail Sales 5/11/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging 5/12/2007

Lies, Damned Lies, and Default Rates 5/13/2007

Strategic Financing: A Bridge Loan Too Far 5/14/2007

You Can Get "New Car Smell" For $3.99 at Target 5/14/2007

Subprime Update: "Turbulent" Is Today's Word 5/14/2007

Fraud and Collateral Risk Index 5/15/2007

Lender Beware 5/15/2007

Why I Am Not An Analyst 5/17/2007

Why Aren't Loans Designed For People Who Don't Need Them? 5/18/2007

Brookings on Low-Income Debt Patterns 5/19/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging: The Broker 5/19/2007

Am I the Only One Who Hears the Screams? 5/20/2007

Anti-Crimes Rhymes in the Times 5/21/2007

If Option ARMs Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Option ARMs 5/21/2007

More Mozilo 5/21/2007

MEWPEE: It's Not Just For Ferraris Any More 5/22/2007

Servicing Update: About Those Modifications . . . 5/23/2007

Stated Income Update: Dugan Opens Fire 5/23/2007

All Your Access to Money Are Belong To Us 5/25/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging: Coast CEO Catches the Bus 5/26/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging II: Whalen Gets the Willies 5/26/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging III: Every Man Needs Protection 5/26/2007

Reverse Mortgages: An UberNerditorial 5/28/2007

Subprime and The Press, Version Eleventy Jillion 5/31/2007

I Bet On Losses, I Want to See Some Losses 6/01/2007

Subprime Update: We Built This City on Rock and Roll 6/01/2007

Whatever 6/01/2007

Reelin' In the Suckers 6/02/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging: In Your Pension, Your Peaceful Pension . . . 6/02/2007

Economics: The Stories We Tell Ourselves 6/03/2007

The New Piggybacking: Lipstick on a FICO 6/04/2007

Fitch Report on Loan Modifications 6/04/2007

Homebuilder X: By Any Means Necessary 6/05/2007

Builders Forgive Illegal Second Liens 6/05/2007

Modifications, Buybacks, True Sales, and Puzzlement 6/07/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging: Ah, What's Puzzling You? 6/09/2007

“Uneconomic Transactions,” Or Why I Hate Wall Street 6/10/2007

Efficient Markets 6/11/2007

Paulson v. Bear, Again 6/11/2007

Borrower Counseling: Where the Rubber Meets the Road 6/12/2007

BK-O-Matic 6/15/2007

Mortgage Fraud Update: Back to the Beginning 6/16/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging 6/16/2007

GMAC: Still Dumber Than WaMu 6/18/2007

A Busted Slump? 6/18/2007

Hedgies Grab the Other Third Rail 6/18/2007

Fannie Mae on 2/28 Delinquencies 6/18/2007

Truth-Seekers Are Always Misunderstood 6/18/2007

Toward a Unified Theory of Asset Preservation 6/19/2007

The Drag Stops Here 6/20/2007

The Bear Stearns Reporting Contest 6/21/2007

The Pig Files: Corporate Debt is Out There 6/21/2007

Bear Stearns Update: The Love of a Mother 6/22/2007

CMO? CDO? There's a Difference? 6/22/2007

Things Are Looking Up on the Supply Side 6/22/2007

If It's Friday, Fitch Ratings Cut May Involve Bear Stearns Hedge Fund 6/22/2007

A Tale of Two Hedge Funds 6/23/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging: I Smell a Rat 6/23/2007

BONG HiTS 4 BEAR* 6/26/2007

BONG HiTS 4 BILL GROSS! 6/26/2007

Bear Stearns: A Brat Sneers 6/26/2007

Subprime and CDOs: Illiquifying the Liquified 6/28/2007

Subprime and CDOs II 6/28/2007

It Depends On How You Define "Unlucky" 6/28/2007

Countrywide Subprime Second-Lien ABS Downgraded 6/28/2007

Bloomberg's Numbers 6/29/2007

Brookstreet Update: It Depends On What You Mean By "Lunch" 6/30/2007

Brookstreet Update II: "A Notional Pricing Disparity" 6/30/2007

Brookstreet Update III: The Marks Speak 6/30/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging: Scenes From a Brookstreet Investors' Meeting 6/30/2007

Bloomberg: The Backyard Possum Theory of Financial Markets 7/02/2007

Mortgage Lender Quote of the Day 7/02/2007

Mortgage Fraud Watch List Wins Round 1 7/05/2007

Delinquencies and Defaults for UberNerds 7/06/2007

Saturday Rock Opera Blogging 7/07/2007

It's Not the Default, It's the Deleveraging 7/07/2007

The Compleat UberNerd 7/08/2007

More Ratings News: Moody's Downgrades 399 7/10/2007

Alt-A: The New Home of Subprime? 7/11/2007

Ooops 7/12/2007

Rating Agency Miscellany 7/12/2007

Utter Worthlessness From Chicago Fed 7/13/2007

Retail Sales, June 7/13/2007

Flight to Quality 7/13/2007

Stockpuppets 7/14/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging 7/14/2007

Conforming Loan Limits: The Subprime Excuse 7/15/2007

Which Is Not What the Big Bucks Are Paid For 7/16/2007

Stunned But Not Surprised 7/16/2007

Alt-A Update: Time to Stop Telling That Story, I'd Say 7/16/2007

There's Always Something To Distract Investors 7/17/2007

Fitch: Actual Downgrades of Alt-A Trusts 7/17/2007

In Ur Boardroom Readin Ur Posts 7/18/2007

Nobody Loves You When You're Downgrading and Out 7/18/2007

News Flash: You Can Get an AAA Rating on Tranches of Junk Loan Pools 7/18/2007

WaMu Staying Committed to Subprime 7/19/2007

S&P Downgrades 419 Second Lien Classes 7/19/2007

Today's Nugget of Wisdom 7/20/2007

Today's Nugget of Hilarity 7/20/2007

Friday Night Downgrades: More Alt-A 7/20/2007

Leverage, Ratings and Forced Unwind 7/22/2007

New and Improved Tools 7/23/2007

Wall Street Heads For the Diaper Aisle 7/24/2007

It Takes One To Know One 7/24/2007

CFC Reports A Little Prime Problem 7/24/2007

Life Is Like A Box of Subprime Loans 7/25/2007

Alt-A Update: CDR Goes Mainstream 7/25/2007

Wounded Innocence 1, Seasoned Vigilance 0 7/28/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging: Speechless 7/28/2007

Marginal Credit Tightening 7/30/2007

Perhaps We Should Contain Our Metaphors 7/30/2007

Metaphor Watch: Bloomberg Takes the Lead 7/30/2007

AHM: Incompetent, Dishonest, or Both? 7/30/2007

C-BASS Update: The July Margin Massacre 7/31/2007

Alt-A Update: IndyMac Reports 7/31/2007

Quote of the Day 7/31/2007

Beyond the Wall of Worry: The Pier of Pain 7/31/2007

MMI: Stabilizing 8/01/2007

More Viscous Cycle 8/01/2007

Fitch Downgrades 8/01/2007

In Which Due Diligence Is Discovered 8/02/2007

LEND Reports: Going Concern Problem 8/02/2007

MMI Update: Decliners Lead Advancers 8/02/2007

LAT on Hedge Funds 8/02/2007

Even More on Alt-A 8/02/2007

AHM Throws in the Towel 8/02/2007

MMI: Gamma Deltas the Alphas With a Beta 8/03/2007

Andrew Davidson on the Securitization Food Chain 8/03/2007

MMI: Intraday Volatility 8/03/2007

Fannie and Freddie Limiting the Bailout 8/03/2007

Saturday Rock Blogging: All The Pain Money Can Buy 8/04/2007

Bonus: Saturday Poll Rocking 8/04/2007

SFAS 140: Like A Bridge Over Troubled Bong Water 8/05/2007

Stop Making Sense 8/06/2007



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NYT: The GSEs Invent the Risk Premium 8/25/2008

More Advice on Hardship Letters 8/26/2008

We Get Mail 8/27/2008

Some Plan 8/27/2008

IndyMac Mods: Principal Forbearance Vs. Reduction 8/29/2008

The End is Nigh 8/29/2008

They Could Call It Moronic 9/02/2008

We're All Fraudulently Induced Now 9/05/2008

In a Word . . . 9/08/2008

Freddie Mac and the "Two Year Rule" 9/09/2008

Actually, They Hate You Too 9/10/2008

Mortgage Pig™ Fights Back 9/12/2008

Loan Modifications: Anecdotes and Data 9/13/2008

Gretchen's Modest Proposal 9/15/2008

What We Should Get For $700 Billion 9/21/2008

Tanta's final post:

IndyMac-FDIC Mortgage Modification Plan: Still in the Real World 10/23/2008

And she concluded:

On a personal note: I was in the hospital earlier this week, and I'll be in and out for treatment on an out-patient basis tomorrow and early next week. It's chemo again, unfortunately. Even though I did leave the hospital with better pain pills than I had (yay!), I have no idea when I'll be able to post again. I suspect that if you keep your expectations at or below zero for the next week or so, you're unlikely to be disappointed. And now it's nap time . . .