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The Motley Fool June 14, 2007 Seth Jayson	Housing Collapse Squishes Bear The risky mortgages that drove the housing mania were also prime ways for Wall Street to cash in on the greedy and naive. And now that the air is escaping and credit is being crunched, we're seeing the results.
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 Jack Ewing	European Banks' Last Laugh (Extended) European lenders tend to keep the risk in-house, so they're more careful about who borrows. Home buyers take on a lot less debt.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Seth Jayson	Bear and the Housing Carcass Investors, do you think Ben Bernanke's half-point rate cut can save housing, like the folks at the National Association of Realtors claim? Then take just the briefest peak at the earnings release from Bear Stearns.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2007 Seth Jayson	Senate Passes Taxpayer Subprime Bailout The Senate, nearly unanimously, passed a bill that would allow the Federal Housing Administration to insure bigger mortgages with lower down payments.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2007 Seth Jayson	Paulson's Plan to Punish the Public Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to protect homebuyers from their mistakes -- extending loan teaser rates for a few years -- will punish us all.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 John Rosevear	Buying a Home During the Storm Essentially, what's going on is that the mortgage industry -- along with Wall Street -- is rethinking the appropriate pricing for taking on the risk of a borrower with a less-than-prime credit history.
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 Randall Dodd	Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis The mortgage market turbulence is as much about the breakdown of the structure of U.S. financial markets as it is about bad debt.
BusinessWeek September 17, 2009 Palmeri & Francis	How Real Is the Rally in Real Estate Bonds? Companies are jumping back into mortgage securities, but they may regret their moves.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2007 Rimmy Malhotra	Mr. Market's Subprime Vision Many REITs have little to no residential exposure, and therefore, little to no subprime exposure.
The Motley Fool August 3, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Deutsche Delivers A good call on the U.S. subprime market helped Deutsche Bank avoid the current struggles facing many other banks.
The Motley Fool September 2, 2011 Dan Radovsky	Extreme Bank Makeover, Continued Bank of America asks itself, "Does this mortgage lending business make my assets look too big?"
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Seth Jayson	Wall Street Under the Magnifying Glass Credit-rating agencies prepare to be probed by the attorney generals of New York and Ohio, as well as the SEC, as to how they managed to package pools of low-quality loans into groups and pass off portions of it as being A-list.
BusinessWeek December 20, 2007	From CDO to Credit Crunch The Bear Stearns hedge funds became central players in the mortgage mess. Read on to see how.
BusinessWeek July 30, 2007 Dawn Kopecki	Why Fannie And Freddie Are Fidgety The financial giants are loaded down with dicey loans as defaults increase.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2010 Dan Caplinger	This Will Bring On the Real Recovery Now, some positive signs in mortgage financing are bolstering the argument that for real estate, the worst is truly over.
The Motley Fool September 4, 2007 Seth Jayson	Desperate Realtors Applaud Bailout The National Association of Realtors likes the idea of a subprime bailout. Big surprise.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2007 Seth Jayson	Paulson: Taxpayers Should Bail Out Subprime The Treasury Secretary thinks that American taxpayers should clean up the housing mess his Wall Street buddies made.
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Der Hovanesian & Goldstein	Who Will Get Shredded? As the subprime business tanks, the pain is spreading to a wide swath of investors.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Seth Jayson	Home Sales Still Sink The National Association of Realtors reports a 12.8% year-over-year drop in home sales as the market returns to normal levels following the housing bubble.
The Motley Fool December 12, 2007 Sham Gad	ETrade Bailout Signals Trouble Ahead ETrade sidestepped bankruptcy when hedge fund Citadel Investment Group purchased some $3 billion of E*Trade's debt. Yet a closer look at the deal reveals some useful insights into the likely future of the mortgage-backed-securities market.
Reason January 2009 Michael Flynn	Anatomy of a Breakdown Concerted government policy helped trigger the financial meltdown -- and will almost certainly extend it.
BusinessWeek July 9, 2007 Goldstein et al.	Mutually Assured Mayhem Wall Street is on edge, scrambling to buck up Bear Stearns and avert a domino-effect debacle.
BusinessWeek September 17, 2007 Dawn Kopecki	The SEC Wants More Answers The Securities & Exchange Commission is expanding its probe into the mortgage mess.
The Motley Fool September 19, 2007 David Lee Smith	Not the Time for Countrywide The news certainly isn't all bad at mortgage giant Countrywide these days. It is a solid company that will likely emerge stronger from the current crisis, but it will take time.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2007 Sham Gad	What Sparked the Subprime Explosion? Some really smart people have taken one asset -- the plain old mortgage -- and singlehandedly created layers and layers of financial instruments that are predicated on it. Like dominoes, one by one, these securities are now tumbling and leaving investors and homeowners to clean up the mess.
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 Roben Farzad et al.	Not So Smart In an era of easy money, financial institutions forgot that the party can't last forever.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Zoe Van Schyndel	Home on the Exchange The ETF BGI's iShares Lehman MBS Fixed-Rate Bond Fund, featuring mortgage-back securities, gives investors fixed income with a better yield.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Seth Jayson	Bernanke Bails Out Bear Has Bernanke saved the financial system, or has he guaranteed that we pay for Wall Street's mistakes?
The Motley Fool September 24, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	The Investment Banking Wrap-Up A look back at an eventful week in the investment banking segment: Lehman, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bear Sterns all report; the results are mixed.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2007 Seth Jayson	Another Bank Chokes on Dog Food Wachovia announces $1.1 billion in losses during October from its subprime collateralized debt obligations.
The Motley Fool June 27, 2007 Emil Lee	Securitization Simplified Securitization is complicated, but understanding the mechanics will help you evaluate many financial companies. Here is a brief primer on collateralized debt obligations.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2012 Dan Caplinger	Why the Dow's Soaring Today A brief look at the market's moves so far on Tuesday.
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The Motley Fool March 28, 2008 Christopher Barker	When Will the Bleeding Stop? As Goldman Sachs' projected losses illustrate, the credit crisis tally is still growing.
The Motley Fool December 24, 2007 David Lee Smith	Housing's Mess Makers If you think housing's in trouble only because of mortgagers' misdeeds, you've let a half-dozen other culpable groups off the hook. Here's at least a partial grouping of those at fault.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2007 Rich Duprey	The Newest Homeowners: Big Banks The vortex of price declines sucking down values could spiral out of the investment bankers' control, leading to their own subprime devaluation. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 5, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Are Taxpayers Subsidizing the Sale of IndyMac? The FDIC, which took over the thrift's operations last July, has reached an agreement to sell IndyMac to a group of investment firms. Is this a sign that banks, bank loans, and mortgage-related securities have finally become attractive?
The Motley Fool June 12, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Not Much Lovin' for Lehman Investment bank stocks are often proxies for the market; that's not so good right now. Even with the steep declines in May, Lehman doesn't look like a tremendous bargain for investors.
BusinessWeek July 23, 2007 Henry & Goldstein	The Subprime Mess: "It's Just Going To Get Worse" Many more borrowers could default when ARM rates rise.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2007 Emil Lee	Is the Carry Trade for You? A carry trade can be defined as borrowing at a low interest rate and then lending at a higher rate. Because carry trades are at the mercy of the liquidity of the markets, they are highly risky. Investors, beware.
The Motley Fool March 13, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Is Bear Stearns Doomed? The market's betting against this notable firm, as rumors permeate Wall Street that the company faces an impending liquidity crisis.
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Mara Der Hovanesian	Bad Blood Over Bad Loans Mortgage defaults are rising. Wall Street thinks banks should mop up the mess.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Michael Leibert	A Look at Bear Stearns As the strategic landscape evolves in ways that do not always favor Bear's strengths, the firm is unlikely to continue to outperform its peers. Investors, take note.
Financial Advisor March 2006 Marla Brill	Mortgage Bonds Offer Mixed Bag A cooling housing market, rising interest rates and regulatory scrutiny have bond fund managers and fixed-income strategists keeping a watchful eye on the direction of the $5.8 trillion mortgage-backed securities market.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2011 Dan Caplinger	A Jumbo Problem for Housing Limits on loans by Congress will hurt hard-hit high-end housing markets.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Jason Brady	Bottleneck While driven by fundamental weakness in U.S. real estate, in particular subprime loans, the current liquidity crisis has become a general lack of confidence in banking and financial institutions globally.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2007 Joseph Khattab	Time to Dump the Banks? After reading the FDIC's quarterly report, you may just want to dump every financial investment you own, but don't panic just yet.
BusinessWeek March 12, 2007 Mara Der Hovanesian	Lender Woes Go Beyond Subprime Few are feeling the hangover from housing's heyday as much as subprime lenders that cater to risky borrowers.
The Motley Fool March 2, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Quick Take: Brokerages' Sloppy-Looking Swaps Current trading around banks' debt could suggest trouble ahead. Investors may be concerned that risk wasn't adequately managed with regards to the mortgage loans the banks took on.
The Motley Fool June 1, 2009 Christopher Barker	Are You Ready for Round II of the Mortgage Meltdown? A troubling report on the mortgage crisis has far-reaching implications.