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The faulty foreclosure paperwork crisis that is hitting U.S. banks.
10/14/2010
Grouped Articles
Fannieâs and Freddieâs Foreclosure Oversight Questioned
New York Times 10/19/2010
Foreclosure Crisis Slams Into Banks
Wall Street Journal 10/15/2010
Out of Maine, a National Foreclosure Freeze
New York Times 10/14/2010
Florida Foreclosure Lawyers Are Scrutinized Over Procedures
New York Times 10/15/2010
New York Times 10/14/2010
New York Times 10/14/2010
Roubini on China, currency issues, and domestic consumption in China.
05/17/2010
By letting the yuan China can shift the benefits to households, who will have more purchasing power, and reverse the shift that has taken place in the last 10 years, with domestic consumption making up about 36% of GDP- down by about 10 points from ten years earlier. State owned companies gained at the expense of households, as did infrastructure spending, but it is leading to misallocation of investments and hurting households. As a result China will hit a growth wall in the next 2-3 years, says Roubini.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 10/04/2011
Europeâs Debt Crisis Is Casting a Shadow Over China
New York Times 05/17/2010
An Accord (and Lessons) to Remember
Wall Street Journal 09/21/2010
New York Times 09/30/2010
Yuan Revaluation for China's Own Sake
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2010
New York Times 09/25/2010
Growing Risks for the U.S. Economy in 2010-2012.
01/04/2010
Risks of another hit from losses on home equity loans to bank balance sheets in latter part of 2010. The situation with local and state governments in the USA cutting back significantly. The situation in Europe and an overheating Chinese economy.
Grouped Articles
The Home-Equity Hurt Ahead for Banks
BusinessWeek 04/14/2010
Beware a Bernanke-Fueled Market Bubble
BusinessWeek 05/13/2010
Don't Rule Out a Double Dip Recession
Wall Street Journal 05/24/2010
Wall Street Journal 05/22/2010
Real Disposable Income: Bad News for Democrats?
BusinessWeek 06/03/2010
Wall Street Journal 06/12/2010
Media site pricing and revenue models.
11/16/2009
Grouped Articles
About Half in U.S. Would Pay for Online News, Study Finds
New York Times 11/16/2009
Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites
New York Times 12/28/2009
Why high unemployment in the U.S. is expected for 2010-2014
06/06/2009
Structural problems like a mismatch of skills between maufacturing and construction sectors worst hit since 2008 and growing sectors like healthcare is one problem. Geographic factors and difficulty selling homes in states like Michigan is another. The tighter credit from a return of banking sector losses from bad home equity loans that is expected in late 2010 will keep the recovery from taking hold keeping unemployment high. The economic uncertainty following repeated budget battles between political parties also affects business investment.
Grouped Articles
90 Million Americans Not Working
Wall Street Journal 10/23/2013
Hiring Slowdown Blurs Growth View
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2014
Confronting Old Problem May Require a New Deal
New York Times 01/28/2014
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs
Wall Street Journal 02/06/2014
New York Times 04/05/2012
Hiring Is Strong and Jobless Rate Declines to 6.1%
New York Times 07/03/2014
Pine Tree Legal Assistance, and Nicolle Bradbury of Denmark, Maine, challenge a GMAC foreclosure, which sets off legal challenges across the USA.
01/05/2009
Attorney Generals of many states across the US initiate challenges to foreclosures, after the successful challenge in the Maine case.
Grouped Articles
A Toxic Subprime Mortgage Bond's Legacy Lives On
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
Fannieâs and Freddieâs Foreclosure Oversight Questioned
New York Times 10/19/2010
Out of Maine, a National Foreclosure Freeze
New York Times 10/14/2010
Banks Ignored Signs of Trouble in Foreclosures
New York Times 10/13/2010
Florida Foreclosure Lawyers Are Scrutinized Over Procedures
New York Times 10/15/2010
New York Times 10/14/2010
Borrowing of US companies and cash savings set aside in 2010-2011
10/03/2010
Grouped Articles
Companies Borrow at Low Rates, but Donât Spend
New York Times 10/03/10
Wall Street Journal 12/10/10
Big Firms Poised to Spend Again
Wall Street Journal 01/01/11
Why Investors Can't Get More Cash Out of U.S. Companies
Wall Street Journal 02/19/11
Wall Street Journal 05/18/11
What Will It Take for Companies to Unlock Their Cash Hoards?
Wall Street Journal 05/28/11
Avatar, James Cameron's movie, as a movie with aglobal dimension in sales.
01/05/2010
Sales in countries like Russia, Brazil, and other places overseas helped push sales over $1 billion, with foreign sales comprising two thirds of sales. The movie's anticapitalist message also fits the times and is especially popular overseas, with greedy capitalists trying to mine amineral on another planet and displacing the people living there.
Grouped Articles
Behind Momentum of 'Avatar' Is a Growing Audience Abroad
Wall Street Journal 01/05/10
Another Top Police Official Resigns in British Scandal
New York Times 07/18/11
The state attorneys general in the U.S. and the subprime lending and foreclosure crises and mortgage settlements.
12/08/2009
Federal regulators and the Bush and Obama administrations failed miserably to help homeowners achieve loan modifications. This with the false belief that putting homeowners out of their homes would actually speed up a recovery, considering the huge scale of foreclosures in the USA , the high unemployment and other problems hitting the economy. Feldstein's consistent arguments for homeowner relief throughout 2008 and 2009- considering the large number of homeowners under water- as the mortgage crisis unfolded, were ignored by the Bush and Obama administrations. See the comparisons to Japan's lost decade, as the lack of recovery in housing adds to problems with job losses. The lawsuits, legal action and mortgage settlements facing banks as they make their way through the mortgage mess.
Grouped Articles
A Toxic Subprime Mortgage Bond's Legacy Lives On
Wall Street Journal 09/13/13
Wall Street Journal 12/31/13
Fannieâs and Freddieâs Foreclosure Oversight Questioned
New York Times 10/19/10
Banks Keep their Mortgage Litigation Reserves a Secret
New York Times 01/16/14
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/14
BP’s Cuts May Wound Portfolio Recovery
Wall Street Journal 02/04/15
Media sites.
11/13/2009
Grouped Articles
For Comcast’s Chief, Content Led the Way
New York Times 11/13/09
Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites
New York Times 12/28/09
A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics
New York Times 01/10/10
How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong
New York Times 01/11/10
German reaction to the debt crisis in Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy.
04/09/2009
Germany said to be turning nationalistic in this crisis, seeing Germany's economic successes as its own, and not accepting the advantage of export markets in Europe in strengthening Germany's economic position.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 03/03/10
New York Times 11/03/13
Germany's Surplus Isn't the Problem
Wall Street Journal 11/11/13
How Italy's ENI Vastly Boosted Oil Output
BusinessWeek 04/09/09
Greek Crisis Shows How Germany’s Power Polarizes Europe
Wall Street Journal 07/07/15
New York Times 05/26/10
Changes in China's factories in 2010-2013. Changing manufacturing.
01/05/2008
Conditions at Hon Hai and a strike at Honda are part of a changing picture of worker dissatisfaction with wages and discipline at Chinese factories. The period of low prices and worker discipline of the kind that prevailed for several decades of industrialization appears to be closing. The Chinese government is also having second thoughts as America and Europe are no longer the growing markets they used to be, and as it weighs a policy shift to domestic consumption.
Grouped Articles
China: A Billion Strong but Short on Workers
Wall Street Journal 05/02/13
China Manufacturers Survive by Moving to Asian Neighbors
Wall Street Journal 05/02/13
China Factories Try Karaoke, Speed Dating to Keep Workers
Wall Street Journal 05/03/13
Strains Show in China's Job Market
Wall Street Journal 06/11/13
Wall Street Journal 12/21/11
Unrest May Signal New Phase in China Economy
New York Times 05/29/10
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