Americans are losing their homes in record numbers due to subprime lenders who allegedly lied to customers about their mortgages. Some former employe
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US shares plunged Thursday in one of the worst selloffs this year, as investors gripped by housing market and "credit crunch" fears ran for cover.The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank as much as 448 points before bouncing back somewhat, ending with a
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Author Joe Bageant's "Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War" gets down and dirty with the hardship economics in Middle America.
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What's been happening in financial markets over the past few days is something that truly scares monetary economists: liquidity has dried up.
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The "subprime" credit crunch is really a sub-crime ponzi scheme in which millions of people are losing their homes because of criminal tactics by financial institutions.
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The "subprime" credit crunch is really a sub-crime ponzi scheme in which millions of people are losing their homes because of criminal tactics by financial institutions.
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The turmoil on global stock markets stemming from bad investments in high-risk US property loans has sparked fears of broad repercussions for the global economy.Only three weeks ago the main US stock index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, broke thr
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The real-estate bubble of recent years, like the stock bubble of the late 1990s, was both caused and fed by widespread malfeasance. Now, those same bad actors want to be rescued by the "nanny state."
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