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`Race to Bottom' at Moody's, S&P Secured Subprime's Boom, Bust Bloomberg - USA The formula allowed securities firms to sell more top-rated, subprime mortgage-backed bonds than ever before. A week later, Standard & Poor's moved to ... See all stories on this topic

Again ... It Wasn't Fannie and Freddie Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA Fannie and Freddie became fairly large players in the subprime market, and they got that way by following the rest of the market down in lowering lending ... See all stories on this topic

Wall Street's Double-Dippers BusinessWeek - USA He also worked on one of the worst, the 2004 hookup of HSBC (HBC) and Household Finance, a subprime lending business that dragged down its parent. ... See all stories on this topic

IMF's Strauss-Kahn estimates global subprime losses at $1.3 tril.+ TMCnet - USA 24_(Kyodo) _ Financial institutions worldwide may be swamped by subprime turmoil-related losses worth a total of $1.3 trillion (138 trillion yen), ... See all stories on this topic

How A Clinton-Era Rule Rewrite Made Subprime Crisis Inevitable Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA BY TERRY JONES One of the most frequently asked questions about the subprime market meltdown and housing crisis is: How did the government get so deeply ... See all stories on this topic

Restarting securitization key to solving US crisis - Ricciardi Reuters - USA Ricciardi, however, argues that the failure of the markets was based on inappropriately taking risk on subprime loans, and that reinvigorating the ... See all stories on this topic

Peter Ferrara: Fed, Fannie and Freddie Caused Financial Crisis ... MarketWatch - USA "But it was the federally established and backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that spread the subprime mortgage risk throughout the financial world," writes ... See all stories on this topic

Managing the Bailout: He’d Do It for Nothing New York Times - United States “We have a large and brilliant staff that can analyze and has analyzed subprime mortgages that can help the Treasury out,” Mr. Gross, the co-chief ... See all stories on this topic

Here's a simple solution: Find anyone who touched the subprime ... The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com - Lehigh Valley,PA,USA ... Enron -- his eyes narrowed and his gentle face became fierce before he said we need to take all the assets of anyone who touched the subprime scandal. ... See all stories on this topic

Bringing Down Wall Street as Ratings Let Loose Subprime Scourge Bloomberg - USA As subprime borrowers defaulted, the companies have downgraded more than three-quarters of the structured investment pools known as collateralized debt ... See all stories on this topic

How A Clinton-Era Rule Rewrite Made Subprime Crisis Inevitable One of the most frequently asked questions about the subprime market meltdown and housing crisis is: How did the government get so deeply involved... IBDeditorials.com Commentary... - http://www.ibdeditorials.com/rss/Editorial.xml

subprime By Catherine Johnson(Catherine Johnson) from Niki Hayes: kitchen table math, the sequel - http://kitchentablemath.blogspot.com/

Bailing Out Environmental Subprime Lenders? By Peter Bosshard Gibe III dam site in Ethiopia. Gibe III dam site in Ethiopia. Last night, I got a phone call from Henry Paulson. The Treasury Secretary urged me to quickly send some cash to bail out the imprudent Wall Street banks. ... Peter Bosshard's blog - http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/blog/peter-bosshard

Subprime mortgage primer -- online comic By Mark Frauenfelder When stuff gets complicated, I rely on profanity-spewing stick figures to explain it to me in terms I can understand. This 45-page online comic explains the subprime mortgage mess in about 2 minutes. The Subprime Primer. Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/

Subprime Cases: Up Up Up Up Up … By ABAJournal.com(ABAJournal.com) The number of filings in federal court related to the subprime mortgage crisis are skyrocketing. In the last two quarters of 2007, 181 subprime cases were filed. In just the first quarter of 2008, 170 cases had already been filed. ... ABA Journal Magazine Stories - http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/