How To Fix The Mortgage Mess 101

Helping homeowners directly is a lot cheaper, more direct, and more cost-effective than handing banks $700 billion. It focuses on consumers, not lenders. It stimulates demand, but requires banks to provide home loans that consumers can afford. It doesn't reward banks and investors for their greed and mismanagement, but reduces the toxic mortgages that are now turning Wall Street banks into a house of cards. (Congress could limit help to homeowners with ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Michael Odza - Sep 30, 2008 - 10:26 AM PDT
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Derek Hawkins
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by Derek Hawkins - Oct. 1, 2008

An intriguing alternative proposal to the current bailout plan. I lack the expertise to judge definitively how well his version of the economic rescue package would work, but this piece is thorough, comprehensible and very well argued.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

This is not a fair piece- the author clearly has a partisan agenda. However, its very informative, well-researched, and is definitely worth reading.

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by Jami Dwyer - Oct. 1, 2008

Talks about details of the bailout bill everyone's talking about.

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