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We're not nearly out from under the subprime mortgage meltdown and already analysts are speculating about the next industry crisis, related to the little plastic cards in your wallet. With American Express becoming a bank-holding company this week in order to get low-cost funds and share in...
As with the auto industry in Detroit, some of the credit-card industry's current problems have been years in the making. Over the past decade, U.S. households have been loading up on debt, with credit-card balances rising 75% since 1999. Yet families' real wages have increased only slightly...
Reaping What We Sow Re "Life Without Credit" [Nov. 3], Bill Powell is spot on in identifying what this financial mess is all about: too much debt. But it is distressing that the only proposed solutions involve rewarding more debt. Let's, at least for the short term, raise taxes...
As the U.S. financial sector began to teeter in September, South Korea's government believed that it was in a far stronger position than a decade ago. Its financial institutions seemed sturdy, with a mere $70 million of those toxic mortgage-backed securities that doomed banks in the U.S., while...
2 | Washington Mortgage Modifications Help is on the way for hundreds of thousands of Americans facing foreclosure. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which between them hold about 20% of delinquent U.S. mortgages, announced Nov. 11 that some customers will see their monthly payments adjusted to no more than 38% of...