News tagged with subprime lending crisis
Racial segregation key factor in subprime lending
(PhysOrg.com) -- New study examines impact of segregation on the prevalence of high-cost loans in U.S. metro areas. Subprime loans disproportionately located in segregated areas.
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Nov 06, 2009 |
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The crisis of shareholder primacy
If we want to prevent the next financial crisis, a new model of corporate governance is needed to replace shareholder primacy in financial institutions. Gates Scholar Mike Marin explains why.
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Mar 20, 2012 |
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3 Questions: Ricardo Caballero on the search for safe investments
What caused the financial crisis of 2008? MIT economist Ricardo Caballero has posited that a key structural factor was a massive global imbalance between the demand for safe investments, especially bonds, ...
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Oct 25, 2011 |
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Study finds foreclosure crisis had significant racial dimensions
Although the rise in subprime lending and the ensuing wave of foreclosures was partly a result of market forces that have been well-documented, the foreclosure crisis was also a highly racialized process, according to a study ...
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Oct 04, 2010 |
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New study finds racial wealth gap quadrupled since mid-1980s
The wealth gap between white and African-American families increased more than four times between 1984-2007, and middle-income white households now own far more wealth than high-income African Americans, according to an analysis ...
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May 17, 2010 |
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Gore, others urge CEOs to back climate change deal
(AP) -- Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing ...
May 24, 2009 |
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New study shows racial disparities in Twin Cities mortgage lending (Video)
A new report, "Communities in Crisis," issued by the University of Minnesota Institute on Race and Poverty shows that the Twin Cities has some of the nation's worst racial disparities in mortgage lending. In the Twin Cities, ...
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Full extent of financial crisis still not known, Purdue expert says
(PhysOrg.com) -- The depth of the current financial crisis is unknown partly because most financial institutions don't disclose they are in trouble until after the fact, a Purdue University expert says.
Oct 09, 2008 |
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Mortgage crisis: Blame the bank?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Banks have played a big role in the mortgage crisis, not only because they issued loans to suspect borrowers, but because many originated and sold bad loans to other lenders, says a University of Michigan ...
Aug 27, 2008 |
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Subprime lending not main trigger of real estate bubble
(PhysOrg.com) -- Critics often point to subprime mortgage lending – the funding of home loans to borrowers with less-than-perfect credit – as the culprit in the unsustainable boom in U.S. home prices that eventually derailed ...
Jul 30, 2008 |
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