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Soobrosa's Bookmarks: mortgage crisis

Story-Dash: Lehman Channeled Risks Through ‘Alter Ego’ Firm
Typically, companies are required to disclose only material investments or purchases of public companies. Hudson Castle was neither. Nonetheless, Hudson Castle was central to some Lehman deals up until the bank collapsed.
2010-06-29 to banking, bestof, collapse, crime, investment, mortgage crisis
John Lanchester: It’s Finished
Then occasionally, we blow all that shit off, fire up some crystal meth, and throw money around with such crazed abandon that it helps destroy the public finances of the world’s fifth biggest economy.
2009-06-09 to bestof, books, finance, global recession, mortgage crisis
John Lanchester: Melting into Air
Before the financial system went bust, it went postmodern.
2009-06-09 to bailout, bestof, books, finance, global recession, mortgage crisis, postmodern
Drake Bennett: Depression 2009 - What would it look like?
Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic economic downturn would feel nothing like the last one.
2009-02-08 to bestof, depression, finance, mortgage crisis, society
Joan Cassidy: Loan Rangers
For some twenty years, politicians of both parties have been using free-market rhetoric as a cover for favors to big campaign contributors.
2008-07-30 to bestof, finance, free market, mortgage crisis, politics

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