On AlterNet: housing bubble

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "housing bubble"

Proposed Legal Settlement With Mortgage Lenders May Repeat Tobacco Settlement Mistakes

Stanton Glantz, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. February 8, 2012.

Effort to push through a 'global settlement' to end state litigation against the banks ignores the lessons of tobacco history.

Conservatives Push Absurd Lie that Wall Street Hustlers Were Innocent Victims ... of Poor People

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 10, 2010.

Deregulation allowed Wall Street to build a house of cards on America's mortgage industry, but many conservatives live in a parallel universe in which the banks are blameless.

Foreclosure Mills: America's Newest Housing Nightmare

Andy Kroll, Mother Jones. August 7, 2010.

Borrowers are getting screwed again as bailed-out banks send their foreclosure dirty work to con artists with a history of breaking the law.

How Bubble Barons Protected Their Influence While the Economy Tanked

Kevin Connor, AlterNet. April 16, 2010.

AlterNet citizen journalists investigated bubble barons who got rich as the rest of the economy tanked. The project shed light on the barons' power delusions and toll on society.

Exposing the Great American Bubble Barons: Join Us in the Investigation

Kevin Connor, AlterNet. February 24, 2010.

Join AlterNet's collective investigative project into the bubble barons who got obscenely rich as they destroyed our economy. Help hold them accountable with Citizen Journalism.

Zombie Lies Don't Die ... WSJ Spins Discredited Claim that Programs for the Poor Caused Housing Crisis

Staff, Media Matters for America AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. November 14, 2009.

The idea that affordable housing initiatives were responsible for the crash is a widely discredited myth.

Wall Street Lies Blame Victims to Avoid Responsibility for Financial Meltdown

Nomi Prins, Wiley Press. September 29, 2009.

To hear it from the big financial companies, the big crash started when poor people bought homes they couldn't afford. But that was at most 1% of the problem.

Some of Us Still Think They Can Get Rich Quick from the Real Estate Bubble

Joseph Huff-Hannon, New York Press. May 2, 2009.

A visit to a packed real estate seminar on how to "get paid to buy a house" reveals that the bubble mindset still hasn't popped.

Watch Out for the Mortgage Vultures: Cash-Strapped Homeowners Face New Threat

Matthew Palevsky, Huffington Post. April 29, 2009.

Fraudulent schemes that prey on people who risk losing their homes are on the rise.

How Cooking the Books on Inflation Helped Destroy the Global Economy

Susan Wallace, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 7, 2009.

Wishing away inflation doesn't actually make it go away.

Plunder and Blunder; How the 'Financial Experts' Keep Screwing You

Dean Baker, PoliPoint Press. February 7, 2009.

Anyone with common sense, a grasp of simple arithmetic and a desire to go against the consensus should have seen the financial crisis coming.

Why the GOP's Tax Gimmick for Homebuyers Won't Help One Bit

Susan Wallace, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. February 4, 2009.

Let's apply a bit of common sense.

Helpers or Hucksters? A Look at ‘Mortgage Mod’ Firms

Paul Kiel, ProPublica. December 29, 2008.

Homeowners should be able to get loan modification help from nonprofits, which charge little or nothing for the service.

A Message for America's Ruling Class: We Told You So

David Sirota, AlterNet. December 13, 2008.

Our bipartisan political Establishment and sycophantic Punditburo have been wrong on the economy over and over again.

Question for Economic Experts: Can You Say "Housing Bubble"?

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. December 12, 2008.

Millions of people may lose their homes and life's savings, all because the economists who are supposed to know better didn't.

7 Ways the Fed Could Bail Out Struggling Homeowners

Ian Welsh, Huffington Post. December 6, 2008.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is groping his way in the dark; here are some requirements for a successful program.

Keep it Simple: Stop the Foreclosure Crisis with the Right to Rent

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. November 19, 2008.

There are a lot of complicated plans being discussed, but sometimes the simplest solution to a problem is best.

How Big Oil's Lobbyists Contributed to Big Finance's Crash

Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. October 23, 2008.

Working Americans are reeling from the "unintended consequences" of their relentless war against regulation.

Wall Street Hustlers Built a $100 Trillion House of Cards and Stuck You with the Fallout

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 22, 2008.

Deregulation brought us hugely "leveraged" investments, and they brought us panicked markets and pain.

How Wall Street's Scam Artists Turned Home Mortgages Into Economic WMDs

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 18, 2008.

The titans of high finance are trying desperately to shift blame for the crisis onto others, but this dead cat lies squarely on their doorstep.

The $700 Billion Bailout: One More Weapon of Mass Deception

Richard W. Behan, AlterNet. September 22, 2008.

The American economy needs help, but there are other, far more equitable ways to accomplish it.

The Villains of the Housing Crisis Are Denying All Responsibility

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. August 27, 2008.

The housing crisis is a result of reckless deregulation by specific individuals.

After the Housing Bill: Time to Address Foreclosures

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.

U.S. Economy: The Worst is Yet to Come

Mark Weisbrot, Huffington Post. May 29, 2008.

Nobody can predict exactly where the bottom will be, but it's clear that we're not even close to hitting it.

Hedge Fund Titans Are Treating Us Like Pawns in Their Economic Chess Games

Scott Thill, AlterNet. May 13, 2008.

Hedge funds exploited the misfortunes of those caught beneath currency, housing and internet bubbles, and got paid by the boatload.