Mortgage predation is baaack! And the Wall Street Journal aids and abets it by choosing not to undertand the issues.
Read more...What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?
Read more...So what can the Administration do, instead of blink, in the debt ceiling staredown?
Read more...Contrary to popular opinion, Fed interest rate policy is still permissive, if not quite as permissive as before.
Read more...Oopsie! Still perceived-to-be-high housing prices, thanks to higher mortgage rates, is a landlord’s wet dream. Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Yet another way to circumvent debt ceilng restrictions isn’t getting the consideration it warrants.
Read more...The Fed seems awfully indifferent to the (so far) low level bank crisis it has created.
Read more...As the Republicans are digging on raising the debt ceilings, the idea of a constitutional challenge is starting to get traction.
Read more...Michael Hudson continues discussing his new book. focusing on the finer details of the fall of the Roman Empire and early Christianity.
Read more...Clearing up misinformation about the new Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage fees, coming into effect May 1.
Read more...Data about who holds CRE loans is incomplete, but more is owned by investors than the media generally acknowledges.
Read more...The financial system needs to provide a safe place for businesses to place their reserves and working capital.
Read more...Bank fundamentals do not look likely to get better any time soon, yet the Fed seems determined to make matters worse.
Read more...An overview from Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity, which extends his analysis of how debt creates an entrenched elite.
Read more...What parts of the financial system are most vulnerable to a crash?
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