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• Do You Know How to Identify Predatory Lending?

  
  TFGI — Authority: 116
  Predatory lending is a term used all the time, but do you know how to identify when it exists? There are many consumers who are lured into loan agreements without realizing they are victims of predatory lending practices. Predatory lending is considered to be unethical and even abusive, yet it continues. Like identify ...
  14 hours ago

• SEC Files Fraud Charges on Former Subprime Lenders

  
  Real Estate Opinion MAG - AgentGenius — Authority: 573
  Rocky road for lender After several treacherous years in the mortgage industry, a shining example of how the subprime market crashed is New Century Financial Corp who as recently as 2007 had over 7,000 employees and employed Bob Villa as a spokesperson and was a substantial NASCAR sponsor. New Century was at one ...
  1 day ago

• One in Four Borrowers Is Underwater - WSJ.com

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 445
  One in Four Borrowers Is Underwater - WSJ.com: The proportion of U.S. homeowners who owe more on...
  2 weeks ago

• Even the good die young? High-quality mortgages approaching foreclosure

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 668
  Filed under: Economic data , Housing , Recession The loans that got us into this mess were generally the first to fall. Variable rate mortgages written without documentation for people with sketchy credit histories shocked nobody as their slide became an avalanche. But, the good stuff is starting to follow . An ...
  2 weeks ago

• Prime Borrowers Are The Latest Victims in Foreclosures

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  by ALAN ZIBEL The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The foreclosure crisis likely will persist well into next year as high unemployment pushes more people out of homes, pulls down housing prices and raises concerns about the broader economic recovery. The latest evidence was a report Thursday that a rising ...
  2 weeks ago

• Study Shows Link Between Segregation and Subprime Loans

  
  City Room — Authority: 786
  The Furman Center at New York University found that the probability that individual borrowers receive risky, high-cost subprime loans increases depending on the racial composition of the neighborhood or metropolitan area where they live.
  2 weeks ago

• Study: Subprime Loans Went to Minority-Heavy Neighborhoods

  
  Home | The New York Observer — Authority: 754
  Residents of largely non-white neighborhoods in New York City were far more likely to receive a subprime loan than those in largely white neighborhoods, regardless of the borrowers race, according to a new study from NYUs Furman Center. The study, which controlled for differences in income and loan amounts, found ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Too Much Positive Thinking Bad For You?

  
  Positive Self Development — Authority: 99
  Image via Wikipedia I used to do some work for a business that taught massage therapists a new approach to bodywork. Using new techniques they became better therapists and this benefitted their clients who received deeper and more healing bodywork. The office of this company had a large board that was filled ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Did Paul Krugman Get It So Wrong? (Nobel Laureate Missed the Fannie and Freddie Debacle)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  In July 2008 Nobel laureate Paul Krugman wrote that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) "didnt do any subprime lending, because they cant: the definition of a subprime loan is precisely a loan that doesnt meet the requirement, imposed by law, that Fannie and Freddie buy only mortgages issued to borrowers who made ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ties Run Deep Between Subprime Lenders, Financial Literacy Groups

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Flickr: Stallio As a credit squeeze continues, calls to beef up financial literacy among America’s consumers are taking on a new urgency. In Massachusetts, Democratic Senate candidate Stephen Pagliuca is pushing for a national financial literacy campaign, saying it would help avoid a repeat of the financial ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Private Loan and For-Profit School Partnership

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 579
  Last week, Student Loan Xpress, a company at the forefront of the federal student loan scandals in 2007 , announced that it would forgive $112.8 million worth of private student loans it made for students to attend an unaccredited flight training school based in Nevada. The school, which charged $70,000 a year for ...
  5 weeks ago

• A Response To The Critics Of Foreclosure Victims

  
  Reed's Bankruptcy Blog — Authority: 136
  As the foreclosure crisis worsens, many homeowners facing foreclosure are finding themselves the target of sensationalists, whiners and finger-pointers. The foreclosure crisis, some say, is the result of irresponsible, greedy homeowners who have taken on more than they could handle and now they’re experiencing the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Exclusive Excerpt: Fannie and Freddie’s Starring Role in the Housing Debacle

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Despite the few voices of caution, risk and leverage had become a national fixation, embraced both on Wall Street and in government. The SEC and the Fed, the main regulators in charge of monitoring the buildup of risky assets on the banks’ books, together with the rating agencies, were the modern-day equivalents of ...
  5 weeks ago

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