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The Motley Fool December 7, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Bush's Bailout Bait-and-Switch The good news: The plan doesn't interfere too much with the free markets. The bad news: The plan doesn't interfere too much with the free markets. |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2007 Seth Jayson |
More Housing Hanky-Panky Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson views the housing decline and crisis as the most significant current risk to our economy. |
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. |
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 September 10, 2007 Maria Bartiromo |
The Heat On Countrywide Embattled Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo answers critics who claim the lender helped bring on the housing crisis. |
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007 Maria Bartiromo |
Inside The Mortgage Crisis CEO Angelo Mozilo says Countrywide Financial should not be lumped in with the subprime outfits that are getting hammered. |
The Motley Fool December 6, 2007 Seth Jayson |
The Subprime Soap Opera Continues Treasury Secretary Paulson's plan to bail out subprime borrowers is doomed to fail. Rate resets, as discussed in a recent Wall Street Journal piece, aren't the problem. Irresponsible borrowing is. |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Bernanke's Plan to Pick Your Pocket Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke promotes an idea that would have taxpayers bail out the jumbo mortgage market. |
The Motley Fool August 21, 2007 David Lee Smith |
The Credit Crunch on Housing Savvy investors should wait until the homebuilders' business strengthens obviously and meaningfully before accumulating positions in the group. |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
The Daily Walk of Shame: The Fed The real economy versus the Federal Reserve. |
The Motley Fool March 28, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Beazer's Just the Beginning If you think an allegation of fraud at Beazer Homes is a stunner, consider another major leak in the housing bubble -- the unraveling of widespread, softer frauds. |
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 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 December 14, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Who Really Caused the Housing Bubble The second-home boom. |
U.S. Banker December 2001 Robert A. Bennett |
Gramlich's Words of Warning His suggested caution on subprime mortgage lending should be taken seriously... |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns. |
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. |
The Motley Fool March 5, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Falling Into the Subprime Trap If any good comes from the bursting of the housing bubble, it will be that homeowners and borrowers may act more responsibly about buying property and taking on mortgage 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 September 19, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Housing's Direction Not Hazy Building permits drop 24% since last year. This may finally create a more healthy supply/demand equilibrium, but how long that will take is anyone's guess. |
U.S. Banker May 2007 Lee Conrad |
Subprime Mortgages: As the Knot Unravels, A Question Lingers: Why? Consumers and companies following their self-interest are supposed to be guiding forces that drive a capitalist economy. The recent meltdown of the subprime-mortgage market, however, raises the question of whether all participants were headed in that direction. |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Who's in the FBI's Crosshairs? The Feds are targeting 14 companies to probe the subprime shenanigans. But it won't identify which. |
The Motley Fool December 28, 2007 Chuck Saletta |
Dueling Fools: 2008 Bear The bears feel that our current crop of politicians are no smarter than the ones who worsened the Great Depression, and therefore, our markets may be doomed in 2008. |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Countrywide's Misguided Pride The problem at Countrywide isn't a lack of pride; it's an excess, especially in the boardroom. |
Reason January 2009 Michael Flynn |
Anatomy of a Breakdown Concerted government policy helped trigger the financial meltdown -- and will almost certainly extend it. |
This Old House Mary Jo Patterson |
11 Tips for Avoiding Foreclosure Worried you won't be able to make your mortgage payments? Protect your home and your investment with this expert advice |
The Motley Fool August 8, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Mr. Market: Manic or Moron? Investors, make sure potential rewards adequately compensate you for your risks. |
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. |
The Motley Fool October 11, 2007 Chuck Saletta |
Time to Buy or Time to Run? Value investing is based on a simple concept: Buy shares in undervalued companies, then wait for the shares to reach their fair value. It's the only strategy that has reliably beaten the market for nearly a century. But, choose your stocks with care. |
The Motley Fool March 6, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Bailout Ben's Bogus Brainstorm The Fed chairman would like to up the federal role, and use your money, to solve housing's woes. |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2007 Rich Duprey |
Freezing Mortgage Rates Is Not the Answer People who shouldn't have qualified for a mortgage got their keys to a piece of the American dream. But now the bill is coming due. |
U.S. Banker September 2008 John Engen |
Future Shock Where to start when trying to figure out how the banking industry got into the mess it's in today? And where, exactly, do we go from here? |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Financial Crisis: The Greatest Hits The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's report, two years in the making, is a 623-page tome of everything you could ever want to know about the financial crisis. |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2007 David Meier |
Quick Take: Subprime Scariness The process, not the outcome, is the scary part of the subprime disaster. Who's to blame? The mortgage lenders? The home sellers? The buyers themselves? (Whatever happened to caveat emptor?) |
Reason January 2009 Lacoude & de Rugy |
Better Than a Bailout Four steps policy makers could take to help financial markets |
The Motley Fool March 26, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Here Come the Mortgage Regulators With subprime lending continuing to plummet, House and Senate hearings run the risk of further retarding a recovery in housing. |
Reason March 2009 Veronique de Rugy |
Dissatisfaction Guaranteed The government has decided to encourage more lenders to take more chances by guaranteeing yet more loans to high-risk borrowers. The only guarantee for these loans is that our children will be paying billions to cover the losses. |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2008 Bill Mann & Tim Hanson |
We've Got Your Back, Bernanke There are several irresponsible assumptions in the recent criticism of Fed chief Ben Bernanke. |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2009 Morgan Housel |
The Past Decade in 50 Headlines A look back at 10 years of market insanity, as told through 50 news headlines. |
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? |
BusinessWeek October 1, 2007 Vitaliy N. Katsenelson |
The Fed's Irresponsible Move The 2001 rate cuts caused the bubble that is now a crisis. Here we go again. |
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 May 14, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Subprime's Expanding Toll Despite its luxury niche position, Toll Brothers is also being affected by the nation's subprime-mortgage disaster. But investors still have an opportunity here. |
The Motley Fool March 5, 2007 Bill Mann |
Better Catch That Cow! The feds wait until now to warn consumers about adjustable-rate mortgages? |
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 March 19, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Subprime Symptoms Starting to Spread? It seems that subprime mortgage difficulties have already started to spread. There will almost certainly be a more protracted softness for housing than we might have anticipated as recently as the final quarter of last year. |
The Motley Fool September 10, 2008 Mann et al. |
The People Responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac As Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have now so painfully proved, trying to serve the master of public policy while generating returns for investors will lead to disaster. |
Financial Advisor October 2007 Jeff Schlegel |
A Real (Estate) Mess In the wake of the subprime debacle, investors rethink the ways they are investing in real estate. |
The Motley Fool March 23, 2007 David Lee Smith |
KB Home Is OK KB Home, while clearly not out of the woods, is experiencing the sort of results that could lead to improved fortunes. Investors, take note. |