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Large Bank To Sell Investments Backed By Loans In Default

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Savings and Loan Crisis, Video, Wall Street, Default, Loans, Financial Crisis, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Resolution Trust Corporation, Mbs, Loans in Default, Financial News, Business News

JPMorgan Chase is reaching back into the playbook, and the result could help the housing market hit bottom. The newly-minted largest bank in the c...

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Matt Taibbi: NY Attorney General Vs. The Banking World

Rolling Stone | MATT TAIBBI | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Eric Schneiderman, Securities, Countrywide, Mortgage Crisis, Bank of America, Obama Administration, Banks, Mbs, AAA Rating, New York Attorney General, Business News

On the one side is Eric Schneiderman, the New York Attorney General, who is conducting his own investigation into the era of securitizations – the p...

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Goldman Sachs Justice Department Investigation More Broad Than SEC's

Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Jerry Markon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Fruad, Sec, Goldman Sachs, Doj, Justice Department, Mortgage Backed Securities, Financial Reform, Abacus, Lloyd Blankfein, Mbs, Trading, Wall Street, Business News

The Justice Department's criminal investigation into Goldman Sachs goes beyond the financial transactions targeted by the Securities and Exchange Comm...

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Goldman Sachs Case Sent To Justice Department Prosecutors By SEC

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Department of Justice, Goldman Sachs, Doj, Civil Fraud, Charges, Securities and Exchange Commission, Mortgage Backed Securities, Abacus, Eric Holder, Lloyd Blankfein, Mbs, Business News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan is conducting a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs over mortgage securities deals the ...

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6 Ways To Fix The Mortgage Mess NOW

Peter G. Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, OurBroker.Com, Fha, Hud, Toxic, Mortgage Backed Securities, Registration, Licensing, Obligation, Mortgages, Stated Income, Applications, Loans, Fiduciary, Predatory, Loan Officers, Ratings, Liar Loans, Mbs, Real Estate, Politics News

For all the talk of reform on Wall Street, a quicker and easier way to assure that big banks don't fail and small borrowers don't get screwed is to si...

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Let's Recall Toxic Mortgages

Peter G. Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Underwriter, Fraud, Goldman Sachs, OurBroker.Com, Mortgage, Loan Officer, Toxic, Wall Street, Predatory, Borrowers, Fiduciary, Recall, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Mbs, Obligation Origination, Business News

The news is now filled with SEC accusations that Goldman Sachs defrauded investors who bought mortgage-backed securities, allegations Goldman Sachs st...

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The Trillion-Dollar Shadow

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Curbing Wall Street, Federal Reserve Audit, Financial Reform, Tim Geithner, Federal Reserve, Judd Gregg, Chris Dodd, Ben Bernanke, Mbs, Business News

What secrets are hidden in the Federal Reserve's trillion-dollar shadow? Senators like Chris Dodd and Judd Gregg don't want us to know. They don't even want to know, themselves.

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The Uncosted Rewards of Bankers' Bonuses

Reggie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ppip, Goldman Sachs, Aig, Fdic, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Taxpayer Bailout, Mbs, Bonuses, Wall Street, Tarp, Business News

Main Street is absolutely flabbergasted that bankers do not understand the core issues of this bonus question. Allow me to clearly outline the problem and propose a solution.

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Fed Chooses to Exit Through Eye of Needle

Michael Pento | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, Fed, Bernanke, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Ben Bernanke, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Interest Rates, Mbs, I Commercial Deposits, Money Market Funds, Housing Bubble, Business News

The Fed's balance sheet has increased to $2.25 trillion from $925 billion at the start of 2008 and excess reserves in the banking system now total more than $1 trillion.

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Money Manager Says Interest Rate Worries Are Unfounded

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, American Securitization Forum, Housing, Rmbs, Mortgage Crisis, Mbs, Federal Reserve, Asf 2010, Financial Crisis, Housing Policy, Interest Rates, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Business News

As the Federal Reserve's trillion-dollar intervention to prop up the housing market comes to an end, the Obama administration and others have focused ...

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The Economist The Obama Administration Should Have Listened To

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Eight months ago, the Obama administration launched a plan to help troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure by providing $75 billion in taxpayer funds to...

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Brokers Suffered, While Customers Profited In 2007

New York Times | Floyd Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

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The brokers' customers did reasonably well. The brokers did not. That is not the usual way of Wall Street. Two-thirds of a century ago, a best seller...

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