The Federal Reserve simulated a severe drop in the stock and housing markets to see whether the largest banks would survive. Most of them would, but the Fron…
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FDIC Bank Closure Map – http://banks.feedba.cc A list of quotes pairing prognosticators from the Great Depression against experts from the Housing Bubble. Fu…
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“When it comes to rising home prices, the question is whether the on-fire price increases are a healthy sign of a housing recovery or a smoke screen masking …
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borrowers' abilities to service their loans, lenders ended up focusing on collateral values, in effect betting on rising housing prices (Gorton (2008) makes a similar point). The analysis also indicates that it wasn't just subprime …
Millions of homeowners are still dealing with the side effects of the housing bubble and credit meltdown of yesteryear, but the home foreclosure market is slowly showing signs of progress. The number of completed foreclosures dropped to 45,000 units in …
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When he takes his leave this week, having presided over his final meeting of the Fed's policy-making committee, he will depart as one of the finest chairmen in the institution's hundred year history, having played a central role in averting a financial …
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First, at the start of the speech, he included the "rebounding housing market" as part of his victory lap. Second, he called on Congress to "send me legislation" that would protect taxpayers from paying for another housing crisis while keeping alive …
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It’s been four years since the US government took over the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who buy mortgages from lenders and package them into mo…
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IPPR's Andy Hull: London is facing a housing crisis. This entry was posted by xearther on December 13, 2013 at 8:03 pm. IPPR's Andy Hull: London is facing a housing crisis. Andy Hull, senior researcher at IPPR on BBC …
Rally for the Housing Crisis – Melbourne, Victoria. Citizens rally for change to housing laws to ease the housing crisis in Melbourne. Sharon Firebrace, Stephen Jolly, Iain McIntyre and others speak out. Click here to watch the …
Two new parks broke ground in Henderson on Saturday. That may not mean a huge amount to you, but for Southern Nevada's housing market, the projects are a fresh sign of recovery from a major meltdown. That's because …
Regarding the possible meltdown here, I don't know. I can't see it from the factory. Everybody is happy and heading home for Chinese New Year. Nobody is thinking about banks. Meanwhile it's getting quiet and boring.
Our analysis shows little evidence of securitization agents' awareness of a housing bubble and impending crash in their own home transactions. Securitization agents neither managed to time the market nor exhibited …
Mr. Clark: I don't think the housing market is going to collapse, nor would TD lose hundreds of millions of dollars in housing loan losses if it did collapse. It's because of the way we underwrite. There is no significant subprime lending market in Canada.
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The lowest average price for a new home since the sub-prime meltdown was recorded in January 2009, at $245,000 while currently the average sale price of a new home is $311,000. While the days of selling over a … Despite all the reassurances we have …
Probably the only reason why the dot com meltdown is not referenced as frequently as it should be in the public domain is because of a much more recent and even more ruinous bubble – the real estate meltdown. The enormous public appetite for housing up …
In recent years, California has indeed suffered from gridlocked government, punishing pension obligations and debt — plus the housing meltdown. It's been addressing these challenges. And though one cannot vouch for the wisdom of every regulation, the …
He was there to discuss Hank: Five Years from the Brink, a documentary on Paulson's view of the crisis, but also spoke at length about what America still needs to do to clean up the mortgage meltdown mess. You didn't think it was over, did you?
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