On AlterNet: housing bubble
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "housing bubble"
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.
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.
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.
Matthew Palevsky, Huffington Post. April 29, 2009.
Fraudulent schemes that prey on people who risk losing their homes are on the rise.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 7, 2009.
Wishing away inflation doesn't actually make it go away.
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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. February 4, 2009.
Let's apply a bit of common sense.
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.
David Sirota, AlterNet. December 13, 2008.
Our bipartisan political Establishment and sycophantic Punditburo have been wrong on the economy over and over again.
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.
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.
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.
Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. October 23, 2008.
Working Americans are reeling from the "unintended consequences" of their relentless war against regulation.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 22, 2008.
Deregulation brought us hugely "leveraged" investments, and they brought us panicked markets and pain.
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.
Richard W. Behan, AlterNet. September 22, 2008.
The American economy needs help, but there are other, far more equitable ways to accomplish it.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. August 27, 2008.
The housing crisis is a result of reckless deregulation by specific individuals.
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 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.
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.
Thomas Palley, AlterNet. May 9, 2008.
Home mortgage deductions and other bennies for homeowners are supposed to help the middle class, but they're actually burying it.
Evan Robinson, AlterNet: PEEK. April 15, 2008.
One stop shopping on various economic woes.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. February 6, 2008.
The debt crisis is moving into high-end loans.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. January 21, 2008.
All those worries about economic hardship are just more liberal media myths.
Ralph Nader, Nader.org. January 19, 2008.
The assault on regulation over the past quarter century caused a mortgage collapse that is producing hundreds of thousands of foreclosures.
