On AlterNet: lending crisis
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "lending crisis"
Richard Wolff, Dollars and Sense. November 3, 2008.
The current crisis did not start with finance, and it won't end with finance.
Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. September 16, 2008.
Each week, sometimes daily now, we slide by a new economic warning sign, by another wreck that's already off the road.
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. May 20, 2008.
That's right; Congress wants to take away money from low-income renters to help bankers who made bad loans.
Dean Baker, Liz Chimienti, Center for Economic and Policy Research. May 15, 2008.
Falling home prices, rising foreclosures rates, and a slowing economy have created a perfect storm for U.S. homeowners.
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.
Ralph Nader, Nader.org. April 7, 2008.
Corporations have essentially become the government, and now they're bellying up to the bar.
Thomas Palley, AlterNet. March 25, 2008.
The Fed's decision to grant Wall Street access to special borrowing facilities constitutes a massive subsidy to the irresponsible.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. March 24, 2008.
Rather than taking this opportunity to tighten the screws, many progressives are actually cheering on plans to bail out the ridiculously rich.
David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. March 21, 2008.
Once again, the Fed is using a crisis to enrich corporate interests.
Eric Le Boucher, Le Monde. March 20, 2008.
The American growth model will have to change.
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. February 26, 2008.
The government wants to hand banks tens of billions of dollars by buying up their bad mortgage debt.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. February 19, 2008.
Clinton offers centrist fixes for our economic problems, but they go a long way toward helping the middle class.
John Miller, Dollars and Sense. February 8, 2008.
The economic recovery underway since late 2001 is probably over. Too bad many Americans never got to experience it.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. February 1, 2008.
As housing markets tank, "trash-outs" are on the rise, leaving owners, lenders and banks fighting over who should pay the clean-up bill.
Max Fraser, The Nation. January 31, 2008.
As with most domestic policy, Obama is to the right of Clinton.
Charles McMillion, Manufacturing and Technology News. January 29, 2008.
Unprecedented debt and soaring numbers of unsold homes are driving down inflated prices for all kinds of assets.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. January 22, 2008.
Like Nixon said, "We're all Keynesians now."
Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and InequalityJanuary 21, 2008.
Dig deep into the subprime mortgage crisis and you'll find the basic story behind our new Gilded Age.
Hale Stewart, Huffington Post. January 14, 2008.
The US economy is just at the beginning of a huge problem.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. January 3, 2008.
This will be the second recession since 2001 that was caused by the bursting of an obviously speculative asset bubble.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu, December 25, 2007.
George Bailey's Savings and Mortgage Company was never bought out by by bloated oil producers for 50 cents on the dollar.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. December 20, 2007.
An infusion of cash won't turn the debt crisis around.
Danny Schechter, AlterNet. December 3, 2007.
America's confidence is eroding because our brand of unregulated capitalism is increasingly not working for them.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. November 27, 2007.
The lending crisis was wholly predictable; how did we end up here anyway?
