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Category: Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by giant banks now collecting billions of dollars in bailout money — including several that have paid huge fines to settle predatory lending charges. The banks that funded the subprime industry were not victims of an unforeseen financial collapse, as they have sometimes portrayed themselves, but enablers that bankrolled the type of lending threatening the financial system.

Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 2 of The Subprime 25: Ameriquest Mortgage Co./ACC Capital Holdings Corp.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 23 of The Subprime 25: GreenPoint Mortgage Funding Inc./Capital One Financial Corp.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 18 of The Subprime 25: American General Finance Inc./American International Group Inc. (AIG)

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 13 of The Subprime 25: Accredited Home Lenders Inc./Lone Star Funds V

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

No. 1 of The Subprime 25: Countrywide Financial Corp.

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inInequality

Meltdown 101

by John Dunbar May 6, 2009January 28, 2022
Posted inInequality

Commentary: The mega-banks behind the meltdown

by Bill Buzenberg May 6, 2009January 28, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

The Subprime 25

by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009March 15, 2022
Posted inFinance, Inequality, Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?

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by The Center for Public Integrity May 6, 2009January 7, 2022
Posted inInequality

Methodology

by David Donald May 6, 2009January 28, 2022
Posted inInequality

The roots of the financial crisis: Who is to blame?

by John Dunbar and David Donald May 6, 2009January 28, 2022
Posted inInequality

Predatory lending: A decade of warnings

Avatar photo by Kat Aaron May 6, 2009April 11, 2022

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