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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
out on an entrepreneurial path but was thwarted by the country’s lack of a finance and lending infrastructure. A similar shortcoming in the mortgage and lending industry also delayed his family’s ability to buy a house until his father...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
which you will reach your destination. ‘Start with the answer’ and work your way back to the solution.” More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times by Whitney Tilson (MBA ’94) and Glenn Tongue (Wiley) The authors explain...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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The Check Is in the Mail
plan, credit cards, and home mortgages can make the existence of personal credit seem like a relatively recent development. An exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center tells the story of how those now-familiar innovations came to...
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- 25 Aug 2015
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Sunset in the East?
mortgage or with very little debt. Unlike in the United States, banks are also less on the line in real estate. We should always keep in mind that the Chinese property market was stagnant or worse (nonexistent) for 30 years after the...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
these developments. Imagine if you were allowed to represent your income on your tax forms and on your mortgage application differently. In a moment of weakness, you might portray your economic situation in two distinct ways. Unlike...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?
generously subsidized (largely through the tax deductibility of mortgage interest, which stimulates demand for homes as well as loans from banks). Private equity, which enjoys a 15 percent tax rate on carried interest. (If the tax rate on...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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An Economy Undermined
negotiable CDs, and so on. Across Wall Street, with takeovers, LBOs, S&Ls, over-the-counter derivatives, high-tech stocks, telecoms, subprime mortgages, and of course mortgage securitization, innovation was too often accompanied by abuse....
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- 29 Jun 2016
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Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
subservient to the needs of the story. “I saw Wolf of Wall Street,” says coproducer Linda Zwack Munger (MBA 1982), a former senior vice president in Lehman Brothers’ mortgage bond department. “It’s so unrealistic.” In addition to not...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and Patrick J. Barry look at three of the largest debacles so far in the 21st century—the BP affair, the mortgage meltdown and resulting crisis, and the use of lead paint in children's...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
from some additional equity (assuming incomes rise). And unlike paying rent to a landlord, each time the owner pays their mortgage they are paying down principal and building equity, just like a market-rate owner. Taken together, these...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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What Went Wrong?
from securing mortgages to saving for kids’ college tuition and retirement. But the country’s current financial crisis really threw me for a loop. Beginning last spring, with the demise of Bear Stearns, the steady drip, drip, drip of bad...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Capitalism.” Not a word was mentioned about the credit disaster facing our nation today. The article stresses the remarkable recent prosperity of capitalism, and points out some concerns. It does not speak to the abuses of the mortgage...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and wanted his help. “It was one of those calls you don’t say no to,” says Bernstein, now serving as the bureau’s deputy assistant director of mortgage and home equity markets. “The CFPB is the largest...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
to restructure home mortgages in a manner homeowners can afford is at the heart of our financial crisis. We have paid a terrible price for not addressing the foreclosure crisis at its inception, but it is never too late to start. How can...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
$4 a gallon, stunning American motorists. The results were predictable: Prices for everything skyrocketed, and an already recessionary U.S. economy, soon to be slammed by the mortgage and credit crises, began slouching toward the 1930s....
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- 28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual
the toughest person I know—except for my cofounder. I had a mortgage and three sons, and I was the primary earner in my family during the economic crisis. But building a company also means being tough in a good way. I have always believed...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
easier is if you've spent your life living below your means. And so many of us don't do that. And we buy big mortgages and buy more than we need, and really the easiest thing to do is pay yourself first and live below your means and...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation in the Philippines. Dimon offered an unvarnished critique of both the corporate and the political worlds. He conceded that the mortgage business “was basically underregulated,” leading to the spread of...
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