Word: mortgagees
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For consumers, retailers, lenders and anyone else who depends on credit, these are worrisome times. Even the $700 billion bailout that President Bush signed last week to buy Wall Street's bad mortgage-backed debt was not enough to calm credit jitters. Consumer borrowing fell at an annual rate of...
If the upside of that system was stability, though, the downside was a limit on how much money you could make with the capital you had. In the late 1970s, a lot of very smart Wall Street types managed to create a shadow banking system to finance more aggressive, risky...
The federal government can and should encourage buyers to head back into the real estate market by announcing that people who buy a home during the next year will be exempt from federal income tax if and when they later resell that home for a profit. Driven by the profit...
In Defense of Wall Street The financial industry is under attack for the supposed greed that has taken place [Sept. 29]. A few CEOs made an ungodly amount of money but are just a small portion of those who work on Wall Street, most of whom are considered middle class...
Europe was looking askance not just at the U.S., but also at tiny Iceland, whose government on Monday completed what amounts to an emergency seizure of its oversized banking sector. Prime Minister Geir Haarde went on television Monday night to warn his compatriots that "the Icelandic economy, in the worst...