Monday 28 June 2010

by: Dean Baker, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

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Attorney General Martha Coakley has won a $102 million settlement from Wall

Street’s Morgan

Stanley & Co., money that will

help more than 1,000 Massachusetts homeowners…

More than half of all homeowners with modified mortgages fell at least two months behind in their payments a year after the adjustment was made, according to a federal report released…

Aaron Smith, staff writer, On Wednesday June 23, 2010, 2:03 pm EDT

More than 1,200 prison inmates, including 241 serving life sentences, defrauded the government of $9.1 million in tax credits reserved for first-time homebuyers, according to a Treasury Department report released…

By Curtis Krueger, Times Staff Writer

In Print: Thursday, June 24, 2010

A homeowner and a banker sitting down at a table — sometimes that's all it takes to stop a foreclosure lawsuit.

Now the court system for Pinellas and Pasco counties has set up a program designed to bring bankers and lenders together with certified mediators. The plan is designed to cut down on the thousands of people in danger of…

This was sent to me by A New Way Forward. Wall Street capitalism will reign again, causing the next crisis to brew before we've even peaked in the current one if we don't demand a change in the dirth of financial industry regulation. The Financial Reform bill aims to do just that, but bankers are paying lobbyists 1.3 MILLION DOLLARS to make sure that politicians "hear" the bankers' needs and concerns. Keeping that in mind, we…

Jun 18 2010, 12:17 PM ET |

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As was widely rumored last week, hundreds of…

http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel07/mortgagefraudwarning.pdf

Unchecked Financial & Oil Industries v Global Living Beings. Game Over.

Between the predatory lending, predatory mortgage-backed securities pimping, foreclosure crisis, and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, have we reached…