Posted on 29 October 2010. Tags: Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide Financial, Financial Crisis, Greed, Gretchen Morgenson, Housing Crisis, Justice, SEC, Unemployment
We are missing part of the anger that I think cuts across the political spectrum–and it goes right to the question: why is Angelo Mozilo not going to jail for a very long time? Because the political system still is not willing to jettison our coddling of the vast array of people who committed deep […]
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Posted on 16 April 2010. Tags: Dean Baker, Homeowners, Housing Crisis, Right To Rent
I’ve always like the Right to Rent idea, proposed by Dean Baker at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, because it would help homeowners–not banks–who are facing the foreclosure crisis. Now, there is a bill to make it law: "The Right to Rent Act of 2010" was introduced by Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva […]
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