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Drawing on exclusive access to J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and a tightly bonded team of bankers known on Wall Street as the "Morgan Mafia"-as well as in-depth interviews with dozens of other key players, including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner-Gillian Tett brings to life in gripping detail how the Morgan team's bold ideas for a whole new kind of financial alchemy helped to ignite a revolution in banking, and how that revolution escalated wildly...
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"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were created by Congress to serve the American Dream of homeownership. By the end of the century, they had become extremely profitable and powerful companies, instrumental in putting millions of Americans in their homes. So why does the government now want them dead? In 2008, the U.S. Treasury put Fannie and Freddie into a life-support state known as 'conservatorship' to prevent their failure--and worldwide economic chaos....
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"Real-life stories of how banks are ravaging the country--particularly African American communities--and how some families have joined together to fight back. The ongoing economic crisis has created one of the longest and largest mass displacements in U.S. history. While profiting from government bailouts, banks have evicted more than ten million Americans from their homes, destroying their life savings, their economic security and their dreams. Told...
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Veteran New York Times economics reporter Edmund L. Andrews was intimately aware of the dangers posed by easy mortgages from fast-buck lenders. But, eager to buy a home and start a new life, he gave in to temptation and began a surreal adventure into the mortgage mayhem that nearly wrecked our economy. Busted weaves together the author's own ride to the edge of bankruptcy with the tragicomic stories of his lenders, the Wall Street pros behind them,...
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If you're in the process of buying your first home and have been trying to find all the facts in one place, you can stop looking now. Housing Finance 2020 lays out clearly and concisely the New Mortgage Programs for the New Generation of Homebuyers. With explanations on conventional and government-insured mortgage programs, qualifying guidelines, the steps to applying for a mortgage, and more, you can feel confident that you won't need any other resource...
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"Underwater is a fresh perspective on the financial crisis that shows how it is still reverberating more than a decade later, casting doubt on the notion that homeownership is crucial to the American dream and inspiring a massive bet by the country's richest real-estate investors that it's not. In a dispassionate, yet deeply personal story that zips between Wall Street and Main Street-or, to be more precise, Audubon Drive in Alabama-Ryan Dezember...
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How to Have a Stress Free Mortgage is your resource to getting a loan in today's market. It will guide you through the traps to avoid before you start house hunting or begin to consider a refinance. Forget about what you may have heard by "supposed" experts; Linda Fleischmann is an active Mortgage Broker and she is in the trenches closing loans. After more than 13 years, Linda knows what to do to get you a loan. Use "How to Have a Stress Free Mortgage"...
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Caught in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, Patrick Lovell, one of 10 million people who lost their homes, asks why he and so many Americans were blindsided by the economic implosion. Lovell embarks on a cross-country journey to discover what happened to America through conversations with a broad spectrum of energy and political academics, OWS protestors, professional developers, real estate agents, and attorneys, all of whom come to the...
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"Reverse Mortgage Risks" is a complete carefully-researched dissertation on the pros, cons, downsides and disadvantages of a Reverse Mortgage. Often touted in commercials by paid celebrity announcers as the greatest product ever created for senior citizens, it is anything but that. There are many "catches" that are seldom revealed up front, and the many supposed "myths" about Reverse Mortgages turn out to be ugly facts! For anyone contemplating actually...
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