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January 21st, 2015 - 12:10 pm § in America

Study debunks GOP myths about subprime mortgage crisis

America’s political right wasted no time turning theĀ subprime mortgage crisis into a political football. Their argument, in essence, is that “the financial crisis was the result of government pressure to make subprime home loans to those at the lower end of the income scale.” Here[...]

October 26th, 2014 - 5:57 pm § in Business, Economics, Misc.

Book Review: House Of Debt

Reading this book will help you understand how the housing crash happened and make intelligent judgments about our government’s policy responses to the Great Recession. Finance is dry stuff and most people hate reading about it, but this book has a lot going for it. Most importantly, it’[...]