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01 Dec 2008
News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

subprime crisis. “It’s hard to overstate the dramatic buildup in subprime lending by mid-decade,” he said. “Subprime lending represented a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

01 Jun 2008
News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

Washington, D.C., Retsinas believes all parties in the housing mess were coconspirators — from lenders that hawked subprime finance deals with microprint caveats, to brokers that turned a blind eye to borrowers’ long-term solvency, to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

is in 2006 and 2007, when banks were offering subprime mortgages to just about anyone and junk-rated firms were borrowing in droves. “When it looks like everyone has loosened their lending standards, that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2009
News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

right across the Western financial system. Not many people understood that defaults on subprime mortgages would destroy the value of exotic new asset-backed instruments like collateralized debt obligations. Not many people saw that, as... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information