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BusinessWeek March 11, 2010 Roger Lowenstein |
Commentary: First, Slap Limits on Bank Leverage The fight over a financial consumer protection agency misses the point. What fueled the crisis was bank debt. |
The Motley Fool July 12, 2007 Rich Duprey |
The Newest Homeowners: Big Banks The vortex of price declines sucking down values could spiral out of the investment bankers' control, leading to their own subprime devaluation. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool March 23, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Alan Greenspan on the Financial Collapse Love him or hate him, Greenspan opens up on the past two years. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 Jack Milligan |
In the Eye of the Storm Former Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan speaks candidly about the financial crisis of 2008, the landmark Dodd-Frank Act and the need for minimum loan underwriting standards for the banking industry. |
U.S. Banker January 2009 Joseph Rosta |
The Industry's New Year's Resolutions Here are five things the banking industry should consider to dig out of this recessionary ditch stronger than before. |
Financial Advisor November 2009 Seth Becker |
The Crisis Next Time Lessons from the recent financial crisis may help avert a future meltdown. |
The Motley Fool January 12, 2010 Morgan Housel |
5 Questions for Bankers A gaggle of Wall Street bankers will be hauled before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission later this week. The topic: their role in blowing up the economy. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 Jack Millligan |
Is the Community Bank Business Model Broken? The concept of community banking is still viable, but the model that many small institutions employ has to change. |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Michael Mandel |
The Economy's Safety Valve Periodic crises like the subprime mess may be necessary to keep global markets from melting down. |
The Motley Fool September 7, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Stop Picking at the Housing Carcass The latest attack on banks sounds reasonable but makes no sense. |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Why Getting a Mortgage Will Never Be the Same Lots of changes are happening to the mortgage market. |
The Motley Fool July 13, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
A Tale of Two Borrowers Unfortunately, many homeowners never consider that they may not really be able to afford the home they own. As painful as it is to give up your home, it's not worth risking financial ruin to stay in a home you can't pay for. |
The Motley Fool July 7, 2009 Morgan Housel |
The New Subprime All you have to do is drop the sub. |
Finance & Development March 2010 |
Big Bad Bonuses? Pros and cons of bankers' bonuses: one defends bankers' bonuses; one says they are a symptom of a bigger problem -- reckless risk taking by big financial players. |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2010 Mark T. Williams |
The G-20 Superpowers Should Learn From Canada Canada has been the gold standard of banking prudence. |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2010 Ian McGugan |
Book Review: All the Devils Are Here The meltdown's secret? Smart people do dumb things. Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera attempt to create a financial whodunit and take the latest stab at apportioning responsibility. |
The Motley Fool November 5, 2007 Sham Gad |
The 1987 Crash -- a Dress Rehearsal? If mortgages continue to deteriorate at such an accelerating pace, the result could make the October 19, 1987 Black Monday Crash seem like a dress rehearsal. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 29, 2008 Martha Lagace |
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel Dean Jay O. Light and a group of Harvard Business School faculty explored the origins and possible outcomes of the U.S. financial crisis at a recent "Turmoil on the Street" panel. |
Insurance & Technology November 10, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell |
In the Crisis's Wake, the Financial Services Industries Assess the Damage and Look to the Future Looking forward, financial services IT organizations will bear much of the burden of restructuring and implementing new, more-effective governance and risk assessment processes. |
Finance & Development March 2011 Irena Asmundson |
What Are Financial Services? In the aftermath of the global crisis, there has been a call for tighter regulation of financial services. But what is a financial service? |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Why the Housing Problem Isn't Going Away Low mortgage rates should be fixing everything. So why aren't they? |
U.S. Banker May 2007 Thomas P. Vartanian |
Crisis and Opportunity In Subprime Mortgage Markets Problems in the subprime mortgage business will inevitably lead to opportunities for those who can evaluate, service or manage the underlying loans, securities and real estate. |
U.S. Banker March 2008 John Engen |
The Politics of Lending Sen. John McCain took time to present his vision of a world with simplified mortgage applications, and even suggested that the government might need to jump in to help mitigate the worsening crisis. |
The Motley Fool December 23, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
2009: The Year Borrowers Got a Clue There are increasingly encouraging signs that fiscal responsibility may be a trend that lasts beyond the end of the recession. |
U.S. Banker January 2010 Eugene Ludwig |
A Three-Step Approach to Repairing the Industry's Image The disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street has tarnished the reputation of banking generally and made it harder for the industry to collaborate with the government. |
The Motley Fool February 15, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Life After Fannie and Freddie: Canada Edition A modest proposal, modeled after our neighbors to the north. |
BusinessWeek May 12, 2011 Roger Lowenstein |
Wall Street: Not Guilty Why have no executives gone to jail for their roles in the financial crisis? Perhaps because risk-taking and stupidity aren't criminal. |
FDIC FYI February 7, 2002 |
Subprime Mortgage Lending Faces the Test of a Slowing Economy Entry by FDIC-insured institutions into subprime lending as a targeted line of business was largely a phenomenon of the 1990s. These lending programs are now being tested by recession, in most cases for the first time... |
U.S. Banker November 2001 Mark Fogarty |
Unexpected Lovefest Some expected a turf war to erupt between mortgage bankers and Realtors as a result of the real estate industry's new ability to provide home finance. But the two groups are now lovey-dovey... |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
A Jumbo Opportunity Interest rates on jumbo mortgages rose nearly half a percentage point in August, even as regular mortgage rates were mostly coming down. Is it time to raise the jumbo loan amount minimum? |
HBS Working Knowledge February 24, 2011 Sean Silverthorne |
What's Government's Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing? The private market should be the main supplier of mortgage credit, but it should be carefully monitored using new approaches to regulating mortgage securitization. The government should play a role of "guarantor of last resort" in periods of crisis. |
The Motley Fool March 5, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Falling Into the Subprime Trap If any good comes from the bursting of the housing bubble, it will be that homeowners and borrowers may act more responsibly about buying property and taking on mortgage debt. |
Finance & Development June 2009 |
The Perfect Storm The IMF's Chief Economist explained in a November 2008 lecture how a crisis that began in mortgage-backed securities turned into the worst recession since the 1930s. |
The Motley Fool April 18, 2011 Alex Dumortier |
Revealed: 3 Emails That Explain the Crisis Released last week, a new 650-page Senate report on the financial crisis describes multiple aspects of a financial system run amok, including the way in which bankers muscled ratings agencies to turbo-charge their deal-making machine. |
The Motley Fool November 28, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Last Call for Smart Homeowners The Fed's recent move has triggered a sharp downtick in mortgage rates. If you want to refinance, it may be now or never. |
BusinessWeek April 16, 2007 Dawn Kopecki |
How Big Is The Bite On Fannie And Freddie? Freddie Mac's and Fannie Mae's exposure to risky loans could be bigger than they say. |
U.S. Banker March 2009 Joseph Rosta |
Regulation Redux After years of tracking, report writing, report filing, documentation, and general paper churning, the Age of Re-regulation is nigh for the financial sector. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Ingves & Lind |
Stockholm Solutions A crucial lesson from the Nordic experience is the need for prominent state involvement in crisis resolution. |
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
The $800 Billion Pick-Me-Up for Consumer Credit The central bank announces an $800 billion support package aimed at spurring mortgage lending and consumer credit, including car, credit card, and small business loans. |
Finance & Development June 2010 William Poole |
Principles for Reform In designing new policies for the financial sector, old-fashioned ideas are important. |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Jason Brady |
Bottleneck While driven by fundamental weakness in U.S. real estate, in particular subprime loans, the current liquidity crisis has become a general lack of confidence in banking and financial institutions globally. |
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 |
Wavering Optimism in a Post-Reform World Just when bankers began to think it was safe to come back in the water, midsummer economic indicators began to pull the tide back out again, as demonstrated in the most recent quarterly results from Grant Thornton's 17th Bank Executive Survey. |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Cindy Johnson |
More Evidence Banks May Be Starting Another Race to the Bottom Defaulted on your mortgage recently? They'll consider you for a loan. |
BusinessWeek April 7, 2011 Karen Weise |
Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Could Get Bigger Federal agencies putting mortgage and derivative reforms into force are writing rules that seem to have a big-bank bias. |
The Motley Fool March 26, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Here Come the Mortgage Regulators With subprime lending continuing to plummet, House and Senate hearings run the risk of further retarding a recovery in housing. |
BusinessWeek April 8, 2010 |
Book Excerpt: Roger Lowenstein's "The End of Wall Street" The Street isn't dead - but a certain laissez-faire idea of it is. So argues Lowenstein in his new book. |
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 Jack Ewing |
European Banks' Last Laugh (Extended) European lenders tend to keep the risk in-house, so they're more careful about who borrows. Home buyers take on a lot less debt. |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Curtains for the American Dream? How trouble with Fannie and Freddie could affect your ability to get a mortgage. |
The Motley Fool September 10, 2008 Mann et al. |
The People Responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac As Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have now so painfully proved, trying to serve the master of public policy while generating returns for investors will lead to disaster. |
U.S. Banker July 2010 |
Mandatory Education To prevent future stress in the housing market at the levels we see now, financial education should be required of anyone who receives a mortgage. |