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Home sweet home, until it isn’t
Christian Science Monitor by staff 04/06/07 Poof! That’s the American dream of homeownership vanishing for those unable to pay their mortgages — leading one major mortgage lender to declare bankruptcy... ...
Greenspan Warns Subprime Woes Could Spread
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Thursday there was a risk that rising defaults in subprime mortgage markets could spill over into other economic sectors. In a wide-ranging question-and-answer... ...
Crisis Looms in Market for Mortgages
Hanging in the balance is the nation’s housing market, which has been a big driver of the economy. Fewer lenders means many potential homebuyers will find it more difficult to get credit, while hundreds... ...
The Housing Bubble Starts to Burst
Dean Baker writes: "While the collapse of the housing bubble was both predictable and inevitable, it is not pretty. Tens of millions of people will be hurt as they see much of the equity in their homes... ...
Echoes of 1929?
Intellectual Conservative by Thomas E. Brewton 03/06/07 A great many economic conditions, as well as the structure of the financial markets, are different from those of the 1920s. Not all of the differences,... ...
US Housing Crash Continues
Prices disconnected from fundamentals. House prices are far beyond any historically known relationship to rents or salaries. Rents are less than half of mortgage payments. Salaries cannot cover mortgages... ...
The Fed’s role in the Housing Crash of ‘07
By Mike Whitney The American people appear to be oblivious to the economic hurricane which is expected to touchdown in late 2007. That’s when $1 trillion in ARMs (Adjustable Rate Mortgages) will “reset”... ...
U.S. Criminal Probe Rattles $2 Trillion Municipal Bond Market
U.S. Justice Department prosecutors subpoenaed more than a dozen banks and insurers three weeks ago, seizing documents from three brokers in a search for evidence of bid rigging. Lawyers say it's the biggest... ...
Hey Millennials, Debt Becomes You
Educational debt is the most visible - but not the only - barrier to the well-being of the "millennial generation," roughly defined as Americans born after 1978. Every gate on the way to middle-class life... ...