LENDING CRISIS

BUSINESS
Banks' Hoarding At ECB Hits Record, Signaling Lending Fears Still Loom
BUSINESS
Is Our Destiny Pottersville or Bedford Falls?
By Tom Gerdy, Contributor
Building contractor and Community Activist
Small businesses have always been the backbone of the economy in America. The current leaders seem to have forgotten this piece of our economic puzzle.
NEW YORK
Unrequited Loan: Banks Just Can't Seem to Commit...
By Ron Gitter, Contributor
www.coopandcondo.com
Thousands of residential co-op and condo loans close each day, but many of those loans have taken a great deal of time and effort to complete.
NEW YORK
Gone Baby Gone: Can a Dying Deal Be Saved?
By Ron Gitter, Contributor
www.coopandcondo.com
As the struggling recovery inches along, many of us on the ground know residential real estate's dirty little secret: getting to the closing table has become increasingly more difficult.
BUSINESS
Customers Close Accounts To Protest Wall Street, Abusive Lending Practices
BUSINESS
U.S. Small Businesses Turn To Microlenders For Funding
BUSINESS
FDIC: Bank Lending Tumbles 7.5 Percent In 2009
BUSINESS
Bankrupt Firms Claim Billions in U.S. Stimulus
POLITICS
Are Bank Executives Really Stuck in the Fog?
By Rep. Edolphus Towns, Contributor
House Oversight Committee Chairman
Common sense should have told these gentlemen that when the President of the United States summons you to the White House, you check the weather ahead of time and plan accordingly.
BUSINESS
Mortgage Lenders Making Record Profits, Consumers Suffer
By Shahien Nasiripour
POLITICS
Chairman Bernanke, We Don't Believe It Is Over
By Michelle Kraus, Contributor
Veteran of the political blogging community
There is a reason that the American people are losing ObamaHope. It's not just unemployment. The reality cuts much deeper than the everyday lives of normal people.
POLITICS
Brokering the Bailout
By John O'Kane, Contributor
Teacher of wriitng and media, UCI
Bailing out big banks has hardly contributed to a climate conducive to free markets and competition. On the contrary, it has allowed institutions already too big to fail to gobble up other banks.
BUSINESS
Real Change: Turning Up the Heat on Non-Bank Lenders
By Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Contributor
Democratic Senator from Massachusetts
The big banks are storming Washington, determined to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. But there is an even bigger change in the wind: regulating the non-banks.
BUSINESS
Local Credit Unions Vs. Big Banks: Can You Get A Loan?
By Jason Linkins
BUSINESS
Smaller Cities Avoid Consumer Lending Crunch
POLITICS
Christina Romer Gets it Wrong: "We Need Banks to Lend Like Crazy"
By Steve Clemons, Contributor
Washington Editor at Large of The Atlantic and founder and sen...
"Lending like crazy" is exactly what helped trigger the global financial crisis -- and reflating those trends would be a major mistake if that is what the Obama administration is pushing.
COMEDY
My Mother and Father Must Start Lending Again
By Jerome Halligan, Contributor
Editor of the satirical news site The Bulletin, at itsthebulle...
Mom, Dad, listen: The time has come to get this household economy moving again. And the only way we're going to be able to do that is if you guys start lending.
BUSINESS
Lending is Contracting -- As Well It Should
By Hale "Bonddad" Stewart, Contributor
Tax lawyer, former bond broker, financial blogger
There is a rather ridiculous line of thought going on regarding the banking industry: if you receive TARP funds then lending is supposed to increase.
BUSINESS
A New Closing Dynamic
By Jim Randel, Contributor
Founder, The Skinny On book series and Street Smarts
It seems to me that if the seller and buyer are in agreement on all terms, then the mechanics of the closing should never delay the manifestation of the parties' desire and intent, i.e. money for deed.
BUSINESS
Treasury to Promote Homeownership? Not so fast
By Mark Winston Griffith, Contributor
BUSINESS
Short Selling Rules Expire Today
BUSINESS
Credit Unions Lose Money On Paper: "Nobody Is Insulated From This"
BUSINESS
HSBC Sees Dive In Profits, Jump In Negative-Equity Loans
BUSINESS
Housing Lenders Worry Of An Even Bigger Second Wave Of Loan Defaults
BUSINESS
Will Skittish Banks Slow U.S. Economy Even More?
BUSINESS
Foreclosures Double From Last Year
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