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Home price drop means $4 trillion in lost capital
U.S. housing decline, sparked last year by subprime mortgage debt defaults, will likely last another two years as a wider group of consumers, including prime borrowers, feel the pinch from a tightening... ...
Home Mortgage Hijinks
by Jon Christian Ryter The home mortgage default and foreclosure figures are in for February. The Bush Administration was not anxious to release them. The figures don't look good. The home mortgage crisis... ...
Blame the Fed
Cato Institute by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. 05/05/08 The U.S. economy is in the midst of an old-style credit crunch brought on by a combination of bad policies and incredibly lax underwriting standards... ...
Piling On: Borrowers Buried by Fees
Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times says that "Slowly but surely, a handful of public-minded bankruptcy court judges are drawing back the curtain on the mortgage servicing business, exposing, among... ...
US Lenders Freeze Home Equity Credit Lines
Gretchen Morgenson reports for the International Herald Tribune, "It was the lending institutions and mortgage originators that got the United States into this credit mess, but it is the American consumers,... ...
Bankruptcies Jump 30% in March, Led by Housing-Bust States
The jump in March bankruptcy filings is another indication the U.S. economy is in recession, led by states where the housing boom turned to bust. The more than 90,000 bankruptcy filings in March were the... ...
How Not to Prevent Foreclosures
The editors of The New York Times write, "With foreclosures surging, the last thing the nation needs is another government-hosted meeting where mortgage lenders pledge once again to do their utmost to... ...
New housing crisis, old isms
In These Times by David Sirota 03/24/08 The Federal Reserve Bank’s decision last week to address the housing crisis by extending $200 billion of taxpayer-financed credit to Wall Street banks was met... ...
Qualified Borrowers Face Credit Squeeze
Kimberly Blanton, reporting for The Boston Globe, writes, "Lenders are rejecting more loan applicants with strong credit scores, the latest indication the nation's credit crunch is deepening and further... ...
Subprime Mortgage Watchdogs Kept on Leash
E. Scott Reckard, reporting for The Los Angeles Times, writes: "Freelance financial watchdogs who examined the paperwork on subprime home loans being sold to Wall Street had an inside view of the boom... ...