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Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now (Ted Rall)
Oct. 21, 2010 -- SAN FRANCISCO (Information Clearing House) -- What would happen to you if you got caught forging a mortgage application? You'd go to jail. And rightly so. In one case in Florida, an ...
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Fraud Task Force Pursues Criminal Investigation of Mortgage Servicers (Carrie Bay)
Oct. 19, 2010 (DSNews) -- Allegations that some of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers cut corners in processing foreclosures and filed unsubstantiated paperwork could turn criminal. The Washingt ...
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Jim Rogers Says Bank Balance Sheets Full of Rotten Stuff (CNBC)
Oct. 20, 2010 (CNBC) -- The problems banks have with mortgages will take a long time to be solved and bank stocks are not attractive despite the recent drop in price following fears over problems wit ...
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Why The Paperwork Appears 'Sloppy' (Neil Garfield)
Oct. 20, 1010 (Livinglies) -- After centuries of lending money and preparing loan documents it seems that the least likely suspect for screwing up the paperwork on tens of millions of “loans” would b ...
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When Banks Are the Robbers (Amy Goodman)
Oct. 20, 2010 (TruthDig) -- The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in who ...
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America's False Consciousness (Charles Sullivan)
Oct. 20, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- An essay authored by Patrick Martin, and published at the World Socialist Web Site Oct. 13, 2010, revealed some interesting findings regarding the approv ...
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Obama Hires a Hustler (Robert Scheer)
Oct. 19, 2010 (TruthDig) -- One day as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson: “How did this happen?” Paulson, wh ...
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Bernanke Ponders The 'Nuclear Option' (Mike Whitney)
Oct. 15, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Ben Bernanke's speech on Friday in Boston could turn out to be a real barnburner. In fact, there's a good chance the Fed chairman will announce changes i ...
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US Healthcare 'to Blame' for Poor Life Expectancy Rates (BBC)
Oct. 10, 2010 (BBC) -- The U.S. healthcare system is to blame for declines in the country's life expectancy ranking, a study suggests. The Columbia University report rejects claims that factors such ...
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How Democracy Dies: Lessons from a Master (Chris Hedges)
Oct. 11, 2010 (Truthdig) -- The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes spent his life battling the assault on democracy by tyrants. It is disheartening to be reminded that he lost. But he understood t ...
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Wells Fargo: No halt to foreclosures (Mark Calvey)
Oct. 8, 2010 (San Francisco Business Times) -- Wells Fargo said Friday it has no plans to adopt a foreclosure moratorium despite Bank of America’s decision today to halt all foreclosures. “Wells Farg ...
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