ZP Heller, CODEPINK Women for Peace: Action Blog AlterNet: Video. October 21, 2008. Protesting the annual Mortgage Bankers Association convention in San Francisco.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. October 15, 2008. In the Flat Earth version, the real villains in the story were the public/private mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Nomi Prins, The Nation. October 15, 2008. Paulson and his wheeler-dealer pals have proven more interested in preserving their own wealth than in stabilizing the American economy.
Ryan Powers, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 24, 2008. For longer than two years Freddie Mac paid a lobbying firm owned by Rick Davis $15,000 a month.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. September 22, 2008. Bush wants to fleece us for hundreds of billions in the financial crisis, but that's just the first layer of a more fundamental economic problem.
Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe. September 18, 2008. The Bush administration's strategy boiled down to allowing Wall Street to privatize the gains while government socialized the losses.
Bob Herbert, The New York Times. September 18, 2008. The Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and AIG fiascos show just how well the unfettered marketplace has been working.
The Nation and Campaign for America's FutureSeptember 16, 2008. Authors Bill Greider and Dean Baker argue that the latest Wall Street woes expose the finance industry's deep need for reform.
Otto Spengler, Asia Times. September 15, 2008. The wake of the financial meltdown on Wall Street is going to badly damage confidence about retiring on an investment portfolio.
George Soros, AlterNet. September 13, 2008. Washington's recent compromise on the fate of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac constitutes the worst of all possible worlds.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. July 29, 2008. The housing bill will likely help less than five percent of the families facing foreclosure over the next two years.
Mark Winston Griffith, Drum Major Institute AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 28, 2008. American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure and Prevention Act of 2008 recently passed the House after lumbering around the halls of Congress for months.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 21, 2008. Bush has set about destroying the decades-old lenders for good, plunging his knife into the backs of programs that helped normal Americans.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. July 15, 2008. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the headlines, with dire warnings of imminent collapse. How worried should we be?
