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How We Got Here–The Making Of An Economic Disaster Series: #2 Housing

October 17, 2011

From the Duluth News Tribune Thursday, May 14 1998 Buying Homes Easier ‘Buying a moderately priced home in the Duluth (MN) area is within the reach of many people who don’t think they make enough money to qualify for a mortgage,  according to local experts.  The Minnesota State Office of the U.S. Department of Housing [...]

Tagged as: Bank of America, BofA, Chain of Blame, Countrywide Financial Corp, derivatives and bundling, Fannie May, How We Got Here: The Making Of An Economic Disaster Series, James "Jim" Johnson, James "Jim" Johnson Fannie May, Obama, Occupy Wall Street protest, Perseus LLC, Perseus LLC & Soros, Reckless Endangerment, Soros, The Making Of An Economic Disaster Series #2 Housing

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The Biggest Swindle In U.S. History And Still Few Arrests (VIDEO)

February 26, 2010

Middle America is still reeling from the economic meltdown of 2008-2009 with no end in sight to the suffering of many from the reckless gamblers on Wall Street, our banking institutions, insurance corporations and government.  Many lives were turned upside down and unlike in the case of Enron and others, the perpetrators are not being brought [...]

Tagged as: AIG, Banks fraudulent activites leads to economic meltdown, Bill Black on fraud and bank getaway, CFO bonuses, Fannie May, Freddie Mac, Large CEO, pbs, Recurrent Economic Crises Possible, TARP, why no convictions from the bank fraud

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Let’s Hope These 4 Things Don’t Happen

January 14, 2010

By Rick Newman Posted: January 13, 2010 In the cast of corporate characters, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are A-list villains, thanks to the central role they played in the 2008 financial meltdown. The two mortgage-finance firms failed as spectacularly as AIG, the poster child for finance-gone-wrong, with the combined Fannie-Freddie rescue totaling about $111 [...]

Tagged as: AIG, Baby Boomers Retirement, bailout, Economy Precarious, Fannie May, Freddie Mac, Mortgage Foreclosures, Obama, Recession and Recovery, Social Security, Stocks, Tea Party, U.S. Debt

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