There may be a garden outside the Oval Office but there is a minefield inside it.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
If the Democrats in Congress don't find a way to become co-advocates with the president on these important issues, their future political problems will be the least of it.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business
High unemployment rates are joining other factors, such as bad mortgage lending and the bursting of the housing bubble, in driving up foreclosure rate...
AP | Posted 08.30.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago-Naperville-Joliet metropolitan area had the highest home foreclosure rate in Illinois for the first half of the year. A r...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — A senior House Democrat threatened banks Wednesday that if they don't volunteer to save more homeowners from foreclosure, Congress ...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business
Before Pompeii was wiped out by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D., there were warning signs galore. But they were ignored. There is currently plenty of alarming smoke pouring out of our economic Vesuvius. It too is being ignored. READ MORE States Forced to Cut Services to the Bone: The Opportunity Cost of the Bank Bailout Reading about the huge budget cuts almost every state in the country is being forced to make leaves us pondering the opportunity cost of the bank bailout -- what else we could have done with the trillions we spent. The devastation is in the details... READ MORE TiVo Alert: I will be part of Sunday's roundtable panel on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, along with Paul Krugman, George Will, Donna Brazile, and David Brooks. The show airs at different times around the country, so check your local listings.
AP | Alan Zibel, AP Real Estate Writer | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of U.S. households on the verge of losing their homes soared by nearly 15 percent in the first half of the year as more ...
Reuters | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Falling housing prices are driving up reports of mortgage fraud, with the FBI saying Tuesday that reported losses are up 83 percent...
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 08.07.2009 | Living
But when your mortgage is past due, home is no safe haven; if real estate taxes are in arrears, your abode provides no asylum.
AP | Posted 07.31.2009 | Chicago
BURR RIDGE, Ill. — Court records show that former Chicago Bulls player Eddy Curry's suburban Chicago mansion is in foreclosure. It's the same h...
Mike Elk | Posted 07.26.2009 | Business
The successful struggle at Republic Windows has provided a model under which workers can successfully fight the banks by occupying their plants.
Daily Herald | Eric Peterson | Posted 07.20.2009 | Chicago
One of the largest and most expensive pieces of property among the sprawling residences of Barrington Hills - the 400-acre Horizon Farms estate - has ...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business
The problem continues to be the administration's habit of conflating the health of the Wall Street economy with the health of the real economy -- when, in fact, the two economies have become decoupled.
Bertha Lewis | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
With millions more foreclosures staring us in the face, we have to act now to create sensible local solutions that will improve our communities, safeguard families, stabilize tax bases, and revive the economy.
AP | Posted 07.12.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- The number of home foreclosure filings in Illinois fell in May, though they still were higher than a year ago. A report released Thur...
ABC News | MAURNA DESMOND | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
It seems like just yesterday--excess was in and celebrities lived it up, buying lavish cars, expensive toys and over-the-top homes. Now, they're losin...
Mike Sheehan | Posted 07.04.2009 | Comedy
7. "In the spirit of Huffington Post's trendsetting something-for-nothing business plan, I'm willing to live in the house... for free!"
New York Times | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
A continuing steep drop in home prices combined with rising unemployment is powering a new wave of foreclosures. Unfortunately, there's little evidenc...
New York Times | PETER S. GOODMAN and JACK HEALY | Posted 06.24.2009 | Business
As job losses rise, growing numbers of American homeowners with once solid credit are falling behind on their mortgages, amplifying a wave of foreclos...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 07.02.2009 | Chicago
This is what foreclosure feels like from the outside. All of a sudden, trusted neighbors whose children I was watching grow up are gone and all that's left is a littered, empty home.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney and Ryan Grim | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
Brett Ellis, a real estate agent in Fort Myers, Fla., was thrilled when he got an offer for a property in Bell Tower Park in May 2008. "It was a gorg...
Washington Post | Renae Merle | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business
The Senate today approved a housing bill aimed at addressing the country's growing foreclosure problem, including revamping a troubled government fore...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
On Wednesday, both the House and Senate took up bills aimed holding back the wave of foreclosures drowning homeowners. Just how bad is the crisis? No...
Norman Solomon | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green
Seventy-five years after the start of the New Deal, and nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, the need for basic change on behalf of social justice and ecology is clear.
Danny Schechter | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics