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… it is an economic recession that generates a housing recession. But beginning with the subprime mortgage defaults last summer, it was the housing market that instead sparked the broader financial …

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Housing ‘boom’ gone after price drop

… loans made to all manner of poor risks, whether they were overleveraged companies or subprime mortgage borrowers. Now there is worry that the Fed will have difficulty ending a recession …

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A search for relief from the turmoil, and the paralysis

… reason that a large number of irresponsible subprime loans were made. I was very pleased–although … is not the culprit behind the subprime mortgage lending abuses, or the broader credit quality …

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Comptroller of the Currency Dugan Refutes Unfair Attacks on the Community Reinvestment Act

… bread-and-butter items like car loans and home mortgages, and collecting deposits. That particular end of … than a year ago and terms like “subprime lending” and “mortgage-backed securities” became commonplace, Vermont …

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Despite downturn, local banks are lending and seeing deposits rising

… and Robert Berner Provided by As if they haven’t done enough damage. Thousands of subprime mortgage lenders and brokers — many of them the very sorts of firms that helped …

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Once again, the subprime wolves are on the prowl

… of the ’80s, Seid says, especially if you don’t have good credit. The banking-sector subprime mortgage meltdown that began in the fall of 2007 means many banks have less money …

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Turn it Up in the Down Turn

… known as structured investment vehicles that it previously ran off its balance sheet. The subprime residential mortgage crisis has swelled into a full-blown debt crisis for not just Citigroup, but other …

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Citi Reportedly In Talks With Fed As Shares Dive

… the US bank Merrill Lynch, a victim of the meltdown in the United States subprime, or higher-risk, mortgage sector which precipitated a global credit squeeze and economic slowdown. Bank of America announced …

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Singapore’s Temasek to cut pay

… more than 80%. Citigroup has been hit particularly hard in the wake of the mortgage meltdown as it racked up losses from risky subprime mortgages. But it is not the only bank hurting. Shares of many other banks, …

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Bank stocks lose ground

… they did in the U.S. following the subprime disaster, but nonetheless, do you want to … be the person who takes out a mortgage on a home that will be worth …

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