Latino Families' Fight for Banking Reform
One of the most devastating consequences of today's economic turmoil is the large-scale loss of nearly a generation of wealth among Latino homeowners.
One of the most devastating consequences of today's economic turmoil is the large-scale loss of nearly a generation of wealth among Latino homeowners.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 11.20.2009 | Entertainment
When you hear terms that sound very technical like "credit default swap" and "reverse redlining", it's easy for part of your brain to shut off. I was guilty of this myself.
Alan Schram | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business
Is it possible that all that money spent is at best doing nothing more than delaying the inevitable, and at worst exacerbating the very problem it was meant to solve?
Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
The U.S. housing market is facing new downward pressure as holders of subprime-mortgage bonds flood the market with foreclosed homes at prices that ar...
wsj.com | STAN LIEBOWITZ | Posted 08.03.2009 | Business
What is really behind the mushrooming rate of mortgage foreclosures since 2007? The evidence from a huge national database containing millions of indi...
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business
Laffer's contention is not based in any current fact. Instead, it's based in his desire to get Republicans elected.
Center for Public Integrity | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business
Today, the Center for Public Integrity releases the results of its investigation into the housing crisis, which showed that investment banks, some of ...
Bloomberg News | Posted 04.28.2009 | Business
In early 2008, Cheryl Ann Montero, a California mortgage broker, held a series of free seminars in the clubhouse of the Lone Tree Golf Course in Contr...
William K. Black | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business
The FBI identified the epidemic of mortgage control fraud at such an early point that the financial crisis could have been averted had the Bush administration acted with even minimal competence.
Don McNay | Posted 02.24.2009 | Business
The nation's economic system has also gotten addicted to shopping.To turn the economy around, Americans need to find a spender's version of rehab.
Neil Baron | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business
Credit ratings have an extraordinarily broad effect on our financial system -- witness their role in the subprime crisis.
Mark Winston Griffith | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business
A version of this entry was posted on the DMI blog. It's remarkable how the Bush Administration keeps missing the mark on the mortgage and foreclosur...
Diane Francis | Posted 11.11.2008 | Business
Washington should undertake a massive, temporary buyout of residential real estate in order to save its economy from years of turmoil and credit crisis.
Diane Tucker | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home
"Every job lost on Wall Street impacts two-to-three jobs on the outside. By comparison, every job lost at an auto plant impacts nearly 10 jobs on the outside... We don't want to know what happens if the domestic auto industry gets away from us."
Steve Parker | Posted 11.02.2008 | Business
They say "start out bad news with a joke," so: In Peter Gent's "North Dallas Forty," a football coach is talking with the team owner's son about his f...
Sheila Tendy | Posted 09.16.2008 | Business
Why are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both government-sponsored and backed by taxpayer dollars, still publicly traded?
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics
Berating women who are still supporting for vice president a candidate who won half the Democratic presidential nominee votes is not the way to persuade them to support Obama.
Sheila Tendy | Posted 08.17.2008 | Business
Most sub-prime borrowers know the risk they are taking, but isn't the American dream about home ownership? Credit is the too-easy cure for the sub-prime borrower's eroded self-esteem.
Washington Independent | Charles R. Morris | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business
Financial markets have finally internalized the brutal fact that house prices still have a long way to fall. The full-year price drop in 2007 was 8.5 ...
Brigitte Bradford | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
Below is some information on Matthew Tannin, one of the two former Bear Stearns executives indicted today in the FBI's "Operation Malicious Mortgage."...
Brigitte Bradford | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
Below is information on Ralph Cioffi, the former Bear Stearns manager, who was arrested on Thursday and charged with securities fraud and various cha...
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 06.27.2008 | Business
Two former Bear Stearns managers have been arrested, federal authorities said Thursday, becoming the first executives to face criminal charges in the ...
Washington Independent | Mary Kane | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business
Now that JPMorganChase has raised its bid for Bear Stearns, angry shareholders seemed to have calmed down and Wall Street isn't as worried that the in...
New York TImes | David Leonhardt | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Raise your hand if you don't quite understand this whole financial crisis. It has been going on for seven months now, and many people probably feel a...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Battling a dangerous wave of home foreclosures, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called Tuesday for additional relief and urge...
Janet Murguía | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics