Obama Mortgage Crisis

America's Shadow Banking System: A Web of Financial Fraud

Ellen Brown | Posted 04.09.2012

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Ellen Brown

Investigation is needed into not just whether massive robo-signing occurred but why it was being done. The alleged justification -- that the bankers were so busy that they cut corners -- hardly seems credible given the extent of the practice.

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Sam Stein

Obama Administration And Banks Near Deal On Mortgage Fraud Legal Liability

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.28.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration, state attorneys general, and, perhaps, the nation's largest banks are close to a final settlement on the years...

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Peter S. Goodman

Obama Foreclosure Relief: Even 'Success' Is Hellish

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Never had Debra Town missed making a payment, she says. But when she lost her job as an accountant in December 2008, in the midst of the worst stretch...

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Mortgage Principal Reduction: Why "Re-Equifying" Borrowers Could Exacerbate The Mortgage Mess

WSJ | James R. Hagerty | Posted 05.25.2011

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Many critics of the Obama administration's mortgage loan-modification program say it won't work because it doesn't do enough to address "negative equi...

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Preventing Foreclosure: Government Incentives For Homeowners

New York Times | EDMUND L. ANDREWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Wednesday began the most ambitious effort since the 1930s to help troubled homeowners, offering lenders and ...

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Seth Colter Walls

Congressional Republicans Have No Opinion On McCain Mortgage Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011

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How seriously are Republican members of Congress treating John McCain's new $300 billion proposal for the government to buy up troubled mortgages? On...

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Seth Colter Walls

In Debate, McCain Touted Mortgage Plan Already Proposed By Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011

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It was the first question of the evening: how to turn the economy around and help those ensnared in the housing crisis. And in John McCain's first ans...

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Top Obama Fundraiser Helped Run Failed Subprime Lender

WSJ | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the Pritzker family of Chicago, the 2001 collapse of subprime-mortgage lender Superior Bank was an embarrassing failure in a corner of their giant...

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Democrats Challenge GOP on Mortgage Mess

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Dreier

Overlay a home foreclosures map onto a map of districts where Republicans voted "no" last week on Barney Frank's assistance bill, and you get a list of vulnerable GOP incumbents nationwide.

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