Financial Crisis Monitor

Countrywide Financial Corp. has mailed checks for more than $3,000 to hundreds of Connecticut residents who lost or could lose their homes as a result of the company’s “abusive and unfair” home loan practices, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday.
The payments are part of a previously announced, $8.4 billion, multistate settlement with Countrywide, now owned [...]

In the United States, years before the so-called “subprime crisis”, various financial businesses existed to serve the needs of the middle class. Among those were Household International, Citifinancial, and Avco. Household International represented the Household Finance (HFC) and Beneficial Finance brands.
As these companies were purchased or absorbed into parent companies, some were also [...]

For many years it has been our opinion that predatory lending became the acceptable norm, followed by a period of aggressive Wall Street greed. When predatory became subprime, and with regulators totally asleep, these 25 institutions effected the entire world economy:
Countrywide Financial Corp.
Amount of Subprime Loans: At least $97.2 billion
Ameriquest Mortgage Co./ACC Capital Holdings [...]

Today we see another press release from Hope Now, with another initiative. Bank baiolouts, implosion, and stock market news makes one point perfectly clear. Even President Barrack Obama is shunned by some shady lenders. Obama is ignored by shady mortgage servicers. No matter how hard Hope Now actually tries, investors block [...]

On July 19, 2007 Lehman Brothers rejected suggestions that they are exposed to subprime problems. Many companies made statements in the summer of 2007, in part because their shock and disbelief caused those companies to say just about anything. Remember Countrywide in July 2007? But we had a problem with Lehman Brothers [...]