| `Race to Bottom' at Moody's, S&P Secured Subprime's Boom, Bust
Bloomberg - USA
The formula allowed securities firms to sell more top-rated, subprime mortgage-backed bonds than ever before. A week later, Standard & Poor's moved to ...
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| Again ... It Wasn't Fannie and Freddie
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
Fannie and Freddie became fairly large players in the subprime market, and they got that way by following the rest of the market down in lowering lending ...
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| Wall Street's Double-Dippers
BusinessWeek - USA
He also worked on one of the worst, the 2004 hookup of HSBC (HBC) and Household Finance, a subprime lending business that dragged down its parent. ...
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| IMF's Strauss-Kahn estimates global subprime losses at $1.3 tril.+
TMCnet - USA
24_(Kyodo) _ Financial institutions worldwide may be swamped by subprime turmoil-related losses worth a total of $1.3 trillion (138 trillion yen), ...
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| How A Clinton-Era Rule Rewrite Made Subprime Crisis Inevitable
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
BY TERRY JONES One of the most frequently asked questions about the subprime market meltdown and housing crisis is: How did the government get so deeply ...
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| Restarting securitization key to solving US crisis - Ricciardi
Reuters - USA
Ricciardi, however, argues that the failure of the markets was based on inappropriately taking risk on subprime loans, and that reinvigorating the ...
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| Peter Ferrara: Fed, Fannie and Freddie Caused Financial Crisis ...
MarketWatch - USA
"But it was the federally established and backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that spread the subprime mortgage risk throughout the financial world," writes ...
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| Managing the Bailout: He’d Do It for Nothing
New York Times - United States
“We have a large and brilliant staff that can analyze and has analyzed subprime mortgages that can help the Treasury out,” Mr. Gross, the co-chief ...
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| Here's a simple solution: Find anyone who touched the subprime ...
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com - Lehigh Valley,PA,USA
... Enron -- his eyes narrowed and his gentle face became fierce before he said we need to take all the assets of anyone who touched the subprime scandal. ...
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| Bringing Down Wall Street as Ratings Let Loose Subprime Scourge
Bloomberg - USA
As subprime borrowers defaulted, the companies have downgraded more than three-quarters of the structured investment pools known as collateralized debt ...
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| How A Clinton-Era Rule Rewrite Made Subprime Crisis Inevitable
One of the most frequently asked questions about the subprime market meltdown and housing crisis is: How did the government get so deeply involved...
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By Catherine Johnson(Catherine Johnson)
from Niki Hayes:
kitchen table math, the sequel - http://kitchentablemath.blogspot.com/ |
| Bailing Out Environmental Subprime Lenders?
By Peter Bosshard
Gibe III dam site in Ethiopia. Gibe III dam site in Ethiopia. Last night, I got a phone call from Henry Paulson. The Treasury Secretary urged me to quickly send some cash to bail out the imprudent Wall Street banks. ...
Peter Bosshard's blog - http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/blog/peter-bosshard |
| Subprime mortgage primer -- online comic
By Mark Frauenfelder
When stuff gets complicated, I rely on profanity-spewing stick figures to explain it to me in terms I can understand. This 45-page online comic explains the subprime mortgage mess in about 2 minutes. The Subprime Primer.
Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/ |
| Subprime Cases: Up Up Up Up Up …
By ABAJournal.com(ABAJournal.com)
The number of filings in federal court related to the subprime mortgage crisis are skyrocketing. In the last two quarters of 2007, 181 subprime cases were filed. In just the first quarter of 2008, 170 cases had already been filed. ...
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