Mortgage Backed Securities

Shahien Nasiripour

The Economist The Obama Administration Should Have Listened To

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business


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

Commercial Real Estate Is an Impending Disaster

Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business


Jerry Chautin

Many of us know of people who have lost their homes through foreclosure. To a lesser extent we hear about struggling commercial properties vying for a limited pool of tenants.

BlackRock Opens Fund To Buy Troubled Assets In PPIP

nytimes.com | MICHAEL J. De La MERCED | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business


Here is the latest pitch from Wall Street: those troubled assets at the banks could turn out to be gold for you. That is the line from BlackRock, t...

Returning to the Scene of the Crime

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business


Andrew Reinbach

We can expect a new wave of mortgage-backed bond defaults to hit the headlines any day now.

The Mystery of the Missing Unemployed Man: On Jobs and Banks

Barbara Garson | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business


Barbara Garson

People are speculating on derivatives and derivatives of derivatives because there's no action in the real world.

Weekly Audit: Ending the Economic Status Quo Economy NewsLadder

The Media Consortium | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics


The Media Consortium

by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger The banking lobby still holds enough sway inside the Beltway to torpedo sensible consumer protection rules, ev...

Rising Transparency -- One Way to Avoid Massive Market Failure

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business


Andrew Winston

A renewed transparency drive may be fueled by the latest emotional issue of the day -- executive pay and bonuses. Let's list everyone who got these bonuses and let the court of public opinion be the judge.

Fed's Balance Sheet Expands, Buying Up To $300B Treasury Bonds, $750 Billion Mortgage Bonds

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — With the country sinking deeper into recession, the Federal Reserve launched a bold $1.2 trillion effort Wednesday to lower rates o...

The Reality Behind Real Estate

Michael Pento | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business


Michael Pento

The Obama team feels it is better to artificially prop up home prices at an unsustainable level rather than have them retreat to a price that can be supported by the free market.

Automakers: Apology Accepted

Jim Wallis | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business


Jim Wallis

If we are honest with ourselves, we realize that the very mistakes the leadership of GM, Chrysler, and Ford have made are all too recognizable in ourselves -- even if there are drastic differences of scale.

Will someone tell Hank it's time to change course in the financial bailout?

David Paul | Posted 12.16.2008 | Business


David Paul

The longer this goes on, the more absurd it is becoming. Hank Paulson may know what he is doing. He may have insight that is lost on the rest of us. ...

Goldman's Revolving Door: Who is Protecting Whom?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.26.2008 | Business


Robyn O'Brien

Goldman went on a shopping spree buying up mortgages -- yours, mine and your neighbors, and bought 8,274 of them.

Greed in the Economy: It's the Morality, Sinner

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.19.2008 | Business


Jim Wallis

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.

Fed and Rival Bail Out Bear Stearns

AP | STEPHEN BERNARD and JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — On the verge of a collapse that could have shaken the very foundations of the U.S. financial system, investment bank Bear Stearns Cos...

Carlyle Capital Woes Signals Trouble

AP | VINNEE TONG | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — A mortgage-backed investment fund created by the Carlyle Group faltered near collapse Thursday, in what analysts saw as a sign that m...

Fed Acts To Ease Strain On U.S. Economy

New York Times | Edmund L. Andrews | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Impelled to take extraordinary measures for the second time in less than a week, the Federal Reserve moved on Tuesday to subdue the deepening crisis i...