George Bush Proposes Subprime Mortgage Reforms

WASHINGTON | A campaign that blames the global financial crisis on a government push to make housing more affordable for lower-class Americans has taken off on talk radio and in e-mail.  

WASHINGTON -- Many of the complicated securities at the center of the subprime mortgage crisis were designed by mathematicians and physicists, and now the U.S. government has tapped an aerospace engineer who used to design NASA satellites to start unraveling them.  

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Wells Fargo Home Mortgage is one of the few large US mortgage lenders to remain profitable and relatively unscathed by the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 and 2008. The company offers competitive rates on conforming fixed rate mortgage terms of 15, 20, 30 or 40 years, and also on a 5...  

"On December 21, 2004 Raines accepted what he called 'early retirement' [4] from his position as CEO while U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators continued to investigate alleged accounting irregularities.  

Groundswell Joining in Call of Assembly Rules Committee Chair Who Sees Issue Linked to Revenue Loss and Health of California Economy By Frank D. Russo Governor Schwarzenegger should make mortgage reform a key part of his efforts to address California's budget and financial woes, according to a...  

The parallels between the subprime mortgage crisis and the ever-depreciating value of "blog bands" revealed! [Blue Lines]  

Cerberus investing $1.05-billion in bank's U.S. residential real estate portfolio  

Defaults on mortgages on homes and businesses of American citizens are increasing beyond the means of U.S. financial institutions to resolve. Specifically, the extent of these subprime mortgages today...  

The consequences of the housing boom and subprime mortgage meltdown in the past several years is having substantial effects on Oregon's economy.  

American International Group's exposure to the subprime mortgage market that precipitated the government's $85 billion bailout came as a result of business conducted after he left the company, according to ...  

A former U.S. attorney who prosecuted top Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling said he sees several "eerie parallels" between the Enron case and the subprime mortgage crisis. John C. Hueston, now a partner with the California-based law firm Irell & Manella LLP, was in Toledo...  

The $700-billion federal financial bailout plan will show us who comes first at many publicly traded companies: shareholders or executives. By offering to buy up subprime mortgage securities and other soured investments, the government will cushion the losses many companies face on billions of ...  

Before you blame the Community Reinvestment Act or the financial equivalent of affirmative action for the epidemic of subprime mortgage lending - and the ensuing global economic crisis - consider the case of ...  

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged that five Los Angeles-area brokers "put their customers at risk by refinancing their homes with subprime mortgages that they could not afford." The agency, in a ...