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The Housing Market is Nowhere Near Bottom
Housing is what started the current mess we are in. Thanks to record low interest rates from the Federal Reserve, the US consumer went on a debt-induced home buying binge. That binge is now coming home... ...
Sanctity of Contracts: Mortgages and Credit Cards
Writing for Truthout, Dean Baker examines the housing crisis: "Momentum is building in Washington for a large-scale housing bailout. It is virtually certain something will happen. The big questions are... ...
Housing Chief Inattentive to Crisis
In The Washington Post, Carol D. Leonnig writes: "In late 2006, as economists warned of an imminent housing market collapse, housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson repeatedly insisted that the mounting wave... ...
Rebuilding the American Economy, Bush-Style
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Unsurprisingly, the Bush administration has proved serially incapable of building anything, even - in the long run - their own machine. And, from the Enron moment to the... ...
Toward a New New Deal
In the introduction to a series of guest articles reflecting on the "usable past" of the New Deal, The Nation writes, "Seventy-five years ago, facing the catastrophic, worldwide failure of the free market,... ...
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... ...
Numerous Countries Have Recently Dropped The Dollar as Their Reserve Currency
Venezuela's state-run oil company begins demanding payment in euros as US dollar weakens Rafael Ramirez said the initiative by Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA, to charge euros rather than U.S. dollars... ...
Debt Serfdom Comes to America
By Dr. Ellen Brown The Irish were driven to America by debt, and they are leading the Western world in household debt today. The London Daily Telegraph reported on March 13, 2008 that household debt... ...
Bear Stearns in Bankruptcy: Can You Feel Their Pain?
Bailing Out the Power Elite http://www.lewrockwe ll.com/orig8/whitney10.htm l -------- Bear Stearns in Bankruptcy: Can You Feel Their Pain? Dean Baker writes for Truthout: "Why is the Fed, an agency of... ...
Weak dollar costs U.S. economy its No. 1 spot
The U.S. economy lost the title of "world's biggest" to the euro zone this week as the value of the dollar slumped in currency markets. http://www.reute rs.com/article/idUSL149197 1920080314 U.S. faces... ...