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Under fire, GM may put customers under water - TheDC

| Ryan Lovelace
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At the same time Obama denounced the subprime lending fiasco as immoral and reckless, government-backed GM ramped up its subprime lending practices

TheDC Morning: Soda tax will not make fatties less fat - TheDC

| Mike Riggs

Read TheDC Morning: An unvarnished e-mail summary of what’s really happening in political news

Freddie Mac no longer operating in alternate universe - TheDC

| Mike Riggs

Warren's plan to protect consumers: ask consumers for tips - TheDC

| Amanda Carey

In an interview with the National Journal, the mastermind behind the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection explains her strategy for battling the banks

Those black American Express cards

| Bill Regardie

The room was filled with the partners of Goldman Slacks, a shop so powerful that, the partners joked, the U.S. Treasury Secretary had a picture of their chairman framed in his office, rather than one of the president.

'Summerwind' blows no good for Greene - Politico

| Chad Brady (admin)

Mike Tyson gave an interview describing his lost “junkie” days, a period he spent on Greene’s 145-foot yacht, Summerwind

Condo deal taints Greene's bystander claim - Miami Herald

| Chad Brady (admin)

Greene insists he had nothing to do with creating the subprime mortgage mess, yet four years ago he was making millions off the crisis

More of the rich run as populist outsiders - NYT

| Chad Brady (admin)

Even as voters express outrage at big bailouts and bonuses, their search for political saviors has led them to rich candidates

Mortgage rates hit 50-year low - AP

| interns

Mortgage rates sink to lowest level in more than five decades, consumers don’t rush to refinance their loans or buy homes

Bailout recidivism: Banish Fannie and Freddie

| Ron Meyer

The same destructive policies remain. Fannie and Freddie persist to give loans to people who cannot afford them. Coupled with the Federal Reserve’s easy-lending practices, the government continues to risk putting us all into further economic peril. We must take the power away

Borrowers flee faulty Obama mortgage program - AP

| interns

More than a third of the 1.24 million borrowers who have enrolled in the mortgage modification program have dropped out

Jeff Greene won big - shorting the market - The Daily Caller

| Mike Riggs

Now he’s hoping to get elected to the Senate from a state whose economy has been devastated by the collapse of that very market

Dems block reform of corrupt mortgage giants

| Hans Bader

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will receive billions more in bailouts for government-sponsored enterprises

19 Billion reasons to reform Fannie and Freddie

| Julia Seymour

Former government-sponsored enterprises ask for additional $8.4 billion, $10.6 billion federal assistance

Team Obama rounds up the villains

| Ron Hart

Failure cannot be Congress’ fault for spending too much. It has to be some other villain — never them

Goldman Sachs and their kin

| Warren Coats

Identifying the points that are particularly important for the broader issue of regulatory reform to deal with the weaknesses that produced the housing price bubble, its collapse, and the near collapse of the over-leveraged financial sector that finance the bubble

Welcome to Pluto

| James Rickards

As a society, we’ve lost our nerve when it comes to bankers and their lobbyists. The Age of the Plutocrat has well and truly arrived

Beware the financial Trojan horse

| Hans Bader

Trojan Horse Financial “Reform” Bill Enriches Goldman Sachs, Rips Off Taxpayers

Investing for failure - ProPublica

| interns

How one hedge fund helped keep the bubble going

U.S. claims mismanagement over regulation of WaMu - New York Times

| interns

Regulators failed for years to properly supervise the giant savings and loan Washington Mutual, even as the company wobbled under the weight of risky subprime mortgages, a federal investigation has concluded