(David Heath is now the Senior Investigative Reporter at the Huffington Post Investigative Fund) For decades, Washington Mutual lived up to its ima...
Reuters | Lisa Lambert | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
"Payment option ARMs are about to explode," Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said after a Thursday meeting with members of President Barack Obama's ad...
nytimes.com | JOHN LELAND | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business
When Harvey Clavon took out an exotic mortgage to refinance his home in Santa Clarita, Calif., three years ago, he thought he knew what he was doing. ...
miamiherald.com | Kevin G. Hall | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- Call it son of subprime. Experts warn that a new wave of mortgage foreclosures may be coming soon and could rival the default rates for ...
newsweek.com | Nikhil Swaminathan | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business
A region of the midbrain called the ventral striatum may be partly to blame for the fact that millions of Americans fell prey to risky financial gambl...
Iris Martin | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business
Homeowners suffering from payment shock and foreclosure syndrome are not getting the psychological help they need to survive escalating vicious attacks by their lenders If payment shock and foreclosure syndrome is not treated as the national epidemic that it is, affecting over sixteen million homeowners, homeowner violence will increase, as will homeowner suicide. Toxic lenders and their cohorts, government cronies, co-conspirators and attorneys need to be punished -- in a court of law, not on the front lawn.
Diane Tucker | Posted 10.29.2008 | Home
"Last week 300 volunteers knocked on 10,000 doors! Even volunteers from Maryland drove down to help us. It was awesome."
Jim Wallis | Posted 10.19.2008 | Business
Our financial collapse is the fiscal consequence of the economic philosophy that markets are always good and government is always bad. But it is also the moral consequence of greed.
USA Today | Barbara Hagenbaugh | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The Fed's cut is good news for borrowers but bad for savers. Lenders cut the prime rate, the benchmark for many home-equity loans. Credit card rates ...
CNBC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Appearing on CNBC's "Mad Money w/Jim Cramer" today, Sen. Hillary Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate, called for a 90-day moratorium on forec...
Seeking Alpha | Roy Mehta | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Countrywide Financial announced Tuesday it will begin contacting about 82,000 borrowers to offer refinancing or modifications for a total of $16 billi...
Business & Technology | David Heath | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business