Scott Thill, AlterNet. November 9, 2009. The economic crisis revealed late-capitalism's central offense: Human beings are being transparently treated if they were mere transactions. And they're going postal over it.
Zach Carter, AlterNet. October 1, 2009. Wall Street-influenced Democrats may not act as nutty as their GOP counterparts, but they're dealing out the same economic damage.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. August 19, 2009. Banks aren't taking possession of houses after foreclosure, creating a "shadow inventory" that may derail the recovery.
John Dunbar, David Donald, The Center for Public Integrity. May 20, 2009. Naming the top 25 lenders and their Wall Street backers that juiced the subprime industry.
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.
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 1, 2009. Only 45 Senate Democrats voted Thursday to oppose the banking industry and pass legislation aimed at stemming foreclosures.
Lagan Sebert, American News Project AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. May 1, 2009. You would think this year's Mortgage Bankers Association annual meeting would be a rather solemn affair -- but they were partying.
John Nichols, The Nation. February 19, 2009. The plan could help nine million families struggling to keep their heads above water. But is it too little, too late?
ZP Heller, CODEPINK Women for Peace: Action Blog AlterNet: Video. October 21, 2008. Protesting the annual Mortgage Bankers Association convention in San Francisco.
Garland McLaurin, American News Project. September 25, 2008. Video: All eyes are on Washington's Wall Street Bailout, but the foreclosure machine continues to crush homeowners caught in the mortgage crisis.
Mark Winston Griffith, AlterNet. April 9, 2007. Money lending institutions have tarred entire segments of the population as credit unworthy through the mortgage industry's own discriminatory, irresponsible -- and now reckless -- behavior.
Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive. April 5, 2007. Over the last decade, we have been witnessing some of the most brazen acts of mortgage entrapment ever to hit the American housing market.