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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...