On AlterNet: mortgage crisis

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "mortgage crisis"

Is Eric Schneiderman Selling Out? Committee to 'Investigate' Financial Fraud Has Some Dark Implications

Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism . January 25, 2012.

The aim of getting Schneiderman on board with an Administration “investigation” may very well be to undermine another effort by 15 Democrat attorneys generals.

How Wall Street Thieves, Led by Goldman Sachs, Took Down the Global Economy -- Their Outsized Influence Must be Stopped

Les Leopold, AlterNet. April 25, 2011.

If we don't bust up Big Finance, there soon will be another financial crisis that will destroy what's left of our middle-class way of life.

7 Reasons Why the Mortgage Crisis Is Dragging Down the Entire Economy

blank blank, Blog for Our Future. March 31, 2011.

There are 8,500 foreclosure actions taken every day in this country.

Armageddon for Home-Owners? 12 Facts That Show We're in the Midst of the Worst Housing Collapse in US History

Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse. February 7, 2011.

Already, US home prices have fallen further during this economic downturn, then they did during the Great Depression.

Mortgage Lenders Committed Massive Fraud and Now Wall St. Wants to Escape the Law

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. January 27, 2011.

Here they come looking for an out-clause and a way to keep their coffers full. We need to repeat a simple mantra: No more bailouts for Wall Street.

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.

Treasury Makes Shocking Admission: Program for Struggling Homeowners Just a Ploy to Enrich Big Banks

Zach Carter, AlterNet. August 25, 2010.

The Treasury Dept.'s mortgage relief program isn't just failing, it's actively funneling money from homeowners to bankers, and Treasury likes it that way.

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.

"Lure People Into That Calm and Then Just Totally F--k 'Em": How All of Us Pay for the Derivatives Market

Zach Carter, AlterNet. June 11, 2010.

Derivatives are a hotbed of abuses and bailouts. So why are taxpayers footing the bill?

Whip the Senate on Carper's Let-Banks-Violate-the-Law Amendment!

Zephyr Teachout, Zach Carter, AlterNet. May 13, 2010.

Sen. Tom Carper is trying to sneak a covert piece of brutal deregulation into the Wall Street reform bill. Don't let him get away with it!

America Without a Middle Class -- It's Not Far Away As You Might Think

Elizabeth Warren, AlterNet. December 5, 2009.

America today has plenty of rich and super-rich. But it has far more families who did all the right things, but who still have no real security.

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

Staff, Media Matters for America. November 14, 2009.

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

Former Wall Street Player Reveals the Inside World Behind Shady Bailouts to Bankers

Joshua Holland, deleted, AlterNet. October 30, 2009.

An interview with Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs, now a razor-sharp financial muckraker and author of the new book, "It Takes a Pillage."

Bill Moyers Takes Us to the Heart of the Mortgage Meltdown

Bill Moyers, Rick Karr, Bill Moyers Journal. July 25, 2008.

Moyers Journal travels to ground zero of the mortgage crisis - Cleveland, Ohio.

Mortgage Crisis Is Leaving Children Homeless

Caitlin G. Johnson, OneWorld.net. July 11, 2008.

Some middle class families are facing homelessness for the first time.

As Foreclosures Rise, Bush Declares "National Homeownership Month"

William K. Wolfrum, Shakesville. June 6, 2008.

The Bush Administration sees a crisis, and meets it with new slogans.

Republicans Obstructing Relief in Housing Crisis

Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny!. May 29, 2008.

A bipartisan coalition of governors are prodding the GOP to move on easing the housing crisis.

Foreclosures in Military Towns Quadruple US Rate

Matthew Duss, ThinkProgress. May 27, 2008.

Military families are being hit hardest by the shaky housing market.

Republicans Want Low-Income Renters to Pay for Mortgage Bailout

Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise. May 19, 2008.

Reverse Robin Hood GOP wants the poor to pay for the mistakes of the rich.

Bipartisan Majority Defies Bush Over Mortgage Crisis

Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny!. May 9, 2008.

The House defies Bush's veto threat on legislation to help families hurt by the crisis.

Potomac Fever

David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. May 2, 2008.

Washington has been debilitated by a horrible disease -- one that inhibits emotions like compassion and integrity.

HUD Secretary -- Yet Another Corrupt Bush Crony, Resigns in Disgrace

Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone. April 1, 2008.

The big surprise here is that there’s no whiny excuses yet. No alcoholism to blame, at least yet.

HUD Head Evicted: White House Officials "Questioned Ability to Lead the Agency"

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress. March 31, 2008.

While Jackson was busy erecting giant photo homages to himself, the nation was spiraling into the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression.

Are we Headed for the Next Great Depression?

Jeff Faux, The Nation. March 31, 2008.

A huge pyramid of debt was made possible by thirty years of relentless deregulation of financial markets.

McCain Gets Remedial Economics Lesson

Scarecrow, Firedoglake. March 28, 2008.

McCain's advisers had to explain that he really did want to help deserving homeowners and really would consider regulatory remedies.