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• in Finance
  Third Anniversary of the Financial Crisis of 2008: Lessons Learned
  The financial crisis as presented in “All the Devils are Here” by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera.
  by donckster / on Sep 16, 2011
• in Politics
  Recovery Shmovery: The Economic Meltdown of 2008 is FAR from Over
  A list of reasons why "the recovery" is a myth.
  by lordonlow / on Oct 13, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “mortgage crisis”

 

• New Housing Task Force Takes Aim at Wall St.

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 450
  A new federal task force looking into fraud related to the housing crisis will begin by looking at big banks and investment firms on Wall Street.
  2 days ago

• In Florida, Facing the Political Implications of Housing Crisis

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 450
  With the next Republican primary in a state hard hit by the collapse of the housing bubble, free-market instincts collide with voters’ desperation.
  4 days ago

• Obama Is on the Brink of a Settlement With the Big Banks—and Progressives Are Furious

  
  Trial by Fire — Authority: 79
  Reposted from The Nation, by George Zornick: For months, a massive federal settlement with big Wall Street banks over their role in the mortgage crisis has been in the offing. The rumored details have always given progressives heartburn: civil immunity, no investigations, inadequate help for homeowners and a small ...
  4 days ago

• How Do You Know It’s An Election Year? The Feds Stop Hitting the Snooze Button on Mortgage Fraud

  
  The Paltry Sapien — Authority: 427
  WMC mortgage target of federal probe, sources say Federal authorities are investigating possible fraud at General Electric Co.’s former subprime mortgage arm amid increased public pressure to hold Wall Street accountable for its role in the financial crisis. The FBI and the U.S. Justice Department are looking ...
  5 days ago

• Robert Reich – Yes He Can (Prosecute Banksters)

  
  The Paltry Sapien — Authority: 427
  … Read the rest
  1 week ago

• Optimism and false hope

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 526
  By Hanna Oldsman Editorial Assistant In Voltaire’s Candide , the title character wanders through a life of brutal executions and natural disasters and angry mobs, and yet believes that he lives in the best of all possible worlds. When I think of misguided optimism, I think of those who are disinclined to do ...
  1 week ago

• A Housing Rebound? Well....

  
  PropertyProf Blog — Authority: 419
  Is the residential housing market improving? Thats a difficult question to get a straight answer to. Last month, the National Association of Realtors announced that it had double-counted some home sales since January 2007, and revised five years worth of...
  1 week ago

• Waiting for an Assignment: A Purdue 1st Week

  
  No More Mr. Nice Guy — Authority: 92
  As you probably guessed, I am an impatient sort. Waiting is not something I do well - it leaves me too much time to think, to mull, or otherwise, to wish things otherwise. (Cant imagine why.) Living... Writing is not just a job...I do it for free!
  1 week ago

• Dimon: To Fix Housing, Everyone Should Get in a Room and Decide to Do My Bidding

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 619
  Brass Piggy Bank (photo: Elizabeth Thomsen) Jamie Dimon has a big plan to fix the housing market. It mirrors John McCain’s big plan to fix Iraq: get people in a room and yell “Stop the bullshit!” “I would convene all the people involved in the business, I would close the door, I’d stay there until ...
  1 week ago

• Occupy Wall Street Steals House From Struggling Single Father

  
  Bucks Right — Authority: 99
  Occupy Wall Street goons, too delicate to occupy outside spaces during the colder months, have taken over the home of a struggling New York father who has been trying to renegotiate his mortgage. Foreclosure proceedings against the father, Wise Ahadzi, have been off and on for the past couple years, but the New York ...
  1 week ago

• Foreclosure Auctions Show Raw Form of Capitalism

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 866
  Hundreds of foreclosed properties are auctioned each week in front of the Maricopa County courthouse in Phoenix.
  1 week ago

• At Bank of America, the Image Officer Has a Lot to Fix

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 866
  Though technically not a banker, Anne M. Finucane of Bank of America is one of its industrys most powerful figures.
  1 week ago

• AGs Bolting Foreclosure Fraud Settlement, Holding Strategy Sessions

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 619
  (photo by The Lane Team/flickr) Yves Smith reminded me of something I wrote last March , when I was hilariously writing about a “rushed” foreclosure fraud settlement. The master settlement agreement with the tobacco industry in 1998 eventually got the agreement of 46 AGs, with the other four coming aboard ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Progressive Democratic Socialists Do Not Want You To Know

  
  Island Politics — Authority: 110
  Censorship is alive and well in Whidbey News Times and South Whidbey Record This comment has been posted several times and keeps getting deleted. What Progressive Democratic Socialists don’t want you to know. The following link contains historical events from 1933 to 2008 that impacted our present lives. October ...
  2 weeks ago

• Inside the Fed in 2006: A Coming Crisis, and Banter

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 866
  A Federal Open Market Committee meeting on March 28, 2006.
  2 weeks ago

• Report strongly criticizes housing finance oversight

  
  Real Estate Opinion MAG - AgentGenius — Authority: 129
  Firey inspector general report The inspector general for the Federal Housing Finance Agency released a report this week that is highly critical of the U.S. Federal Home Loan Bank system, consisting of 12 banks whose primary mission is to support housing finance, saying the banks did not effectively monitor risks. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Strategic Default Scares Banksters and It Should

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 619
  We’ve had another spate of articles recently about strategic defaults, a sign that banksters are worried that people are are going to strategically default. But this time, there’s a difference. At first, the news media told us that it was an offense against God and man to walk away from an underwater mortgage, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac CEOs stepping down

  
  Bizmology — Authority: 124
  Michael J. Williams, CEO of government-supported mortgage giant Fannie Mae, announced Tuesday that he would resign upon the naming of a successor. The news comes just three months after sister [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Thomas Perrelli, DoJ Point Person on Foreclosure Fraud Settlement, Stepping Down by March

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 619
  Thomas Perrelli I keep hearing from everyone “in the know” that these foreclosure fraud settlement talks are just about wrapped up. Surely everyone’s just practicing their signatures for the big signing ceremony, right? Except that there hasn’t really been any news on the settlement for a few weeks. And ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hidden Mortgage Tax Gives Congress Another Way to Pick Your Pocket

  
  Investing to Wealth — Authority: 142
  Americans had better enjoy the extra $40 theyll continue to get in their biweekly paychecks for the next two months, because most of them will be paying for it many times over in the form of higher mortgage costs. Lost in the contentious debate over the payroll tax cut extension - a 2% cut in U.S. workers Social ...
  3 weeks ago

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