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87How to Explain the Subprime Financial Crisis Part 1
The first lesson in a two part series on the subprime financial crisis and how to explain what happened in a simple manner.
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87Mortgage Market Crisis/A Failure to Manage Risk/Economic Outlook Grim
Economic Outlook--Slow Motion Recession Plummeting home prices and car sales, rising foreclosures, accelerating joblessness, tight credit, expected FEDERAL RESERVE interest rate increases. 2 years of sub-par...
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88Recession: What is it and How did we get there?
Second quarter 2008 First of all, it hasn't yet been determined that the United States is currently in a recession. The National Bureau of Economic Research, the major (and supposedly unbiased) research...
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67The fall of the investment banking industry. Will Goldman and Morgan survive?
Rewind backward by just a couple of years and take a look at the investment banking industry on Wall Street. Everything was humming along quite brilliantly with no apparent signs of distress. There were at...
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58Why the Foreclosure 'Rescue' Bill is Insane
The US Congress is passing a foreclosure rescue bill in a big hurry this week because President Bush announced he would not veto it as he had stated earlier. The bill has been languishing in Congress for...
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57Home Equity Loans and Home Equity Credit Lines
Buying a home offers a number of tax advantages and also means that you are investing in actually owning something. As you begin to pay for a home, you build equity in the home, which you can use to get a home equity loan, but it is important to be careful with this type of credit product...
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57Foreclosure Epidemic
Last year, I had a little money to invest so I made an investment to educate myself in the mortgage industry in order to become a loan officer. First of all, this was a new field for me, because, my training...
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52How Mortgages Began
In order to understand mortgages, it is best to start with their history and where the idea of a mortgage actually came from. It all began as far back as the 12th Century, when creditors were protected by law...
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55Understanding Subprime Mortgages
A number of financial experts blame much of the financial crisis on subprime mortgages. While these mortgages certainly contributed to our current financial problems, they were only a part of the problem.
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55How to Shop for a Bad Credit Mortgage Loan
How can you apply for a bad credit mortgage loan to finance your needs? It may be hard but there is always a way. If you’re dreaming of getting a new car, or getting married and moving into a new home...
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