Hank Paulson Should Call John Doerr
More than Paulson, more than Bernanke, more than pretty much anyone in Washington I'd trust venture capitalist John Doerr to negotiate my stake in the bailout.
More than Paulson, more than Bernanke, more than pretty much anyone in Washington I'd trust venture capitalist John Doerr to negotiate my stake in the bailout.
Sheila Tendy | Posted 08.16.2008 | Business
Why are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both government-sponsored and backed by taxpayer dollars, still publicly traded?
Grant Cardone | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business
No matter how much cash the business or individual has, sooner or later you have to get your products and services funded by others through selling or you will burn through your cash
Danny Schechter | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business
New York, August 4: We have all heard the line, 'DA NILE is not just a river in Egypt.' Denial can be a pervasive social and political phenomenon. So...
Scott Thill | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business
The more people unplug from the Kool-Aid machine, the faster we can get past disaster capitalism and onto the next stage in our economic evolution, which is alternative energy -- I say economic evolution, but it might as well be our salvation.
Paul Peete | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home
There are two central conservative movement players who are culpable in the Real Estate foreclosure; two more arrests to be made.
David Horton | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
When the subprime crisis began in America and people began to lose their homes, I was stunned by the reactions to any suggestion that the government m...
Gerald McEntee | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
There's an important reason to doubt the Obama campaign's support for reform of the subprime lending industry: Contributors from the industry have provided more than a million dollars to his campaign.
New York Times | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business
In Seattle, sales at a long-established hardware store, Pacific Supply, are suddenly dipping. In Oklahoma City, couples planning their weddings are de...
ABC News | SCOTT MAYEROWITZ | Posted 03.21.2008 | Business
Is your head spinning these days trying follow what is going on with the economy? Subprime. Collateralized Debt Obligations. Liquidity. Every day it...
Times Online | Patrick Hosking | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business
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Reuters | Lynn Adler | Posted 02.25.2008 | Business
The distressed housing market should get a lift this spring as bargain prices lure prospective buyers out of hibernation, but tighter lending means no...
AP | MARK JEWELL | Posted 02.18.2008 | Business
BOSTON — Regulators are trying to punish Wall Street for mortgage finance practices that expanded home ownership and spread risk among a host of...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.28.2008 | Business
Are we better than 30 years ago? The answer is a thundering no. The solution is not a piddling $150 billion fiscal stimulus package that helps those who don't need it much.
AP | Sophia Tareen | Posted 01.06.2008 | Business
Even the American Dialect Society knows how risky home mortgages are these days. The group of wordsmiths chose "subprime" as 2007's Word of the Year a...
Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 12.17.2007 | Business
Neighborhoods that are being destroyed, at least in NYC, are the very neighborhoods that try so hard to "make it," but can't seem to catch a break for long.
John Sweeney | Posted 12.06.2007 | Business
Right now, we need a moratorium on subprime mortgage foreclosures. Guaranteed, that will dam the flood of Americans losing their homes and their life savings.
Dave Johnson | Posted 12.01.2007 | Business
Fallout from the bursting of the housing bubble is rippling further and further out. In the last few days three state government funds have realized t...
Danny Schechter | Posted 09.02.2007 | Business
Last Friday, the president announced some modest, mild, limited intervention -- all terms used in the press -- to put a band aid on this subprime cancer, and whatever you do, don't call it a bail-out.
Caleb Powers | Posted 08.31.2007 | Politics
This administration has lately become exclusively one-dimensional; focusing on its war and on defending its JV team.
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Adam Hanft | Posted 09.24.2008 | Business