Underbelly

Jennifer Taub's Other People's Houses  is likely to be about as good a book as we are going to get by way of overview of the woes o...

At least in the spin of her enemies (she had a few) Sheila Bair came across as the Lucy Van Pelt of the mortgage meltdown: as head of the Fe...

Tyler at MR  does a manful job of trying to look patient and scholarly in his review of the evidence as to the role of Fannie/Freddie in the...

I asked . Turns out there's a story to tell. The picture is by the distinguished portrait photographer, Edward Steichen. In a memoir,...

Back when Barack Obama was still in middle school, community activists in Chicago were already at work trying to rev up the troops for housi...

The normally clear-sighted Felix Salmon dropped his glasses in the sink this morning, and put on the rose-colored ones instead. Averse to ...

Here's some reading with which to idle away the weekend: Calculated Risk is maintaining a list of almost-in-trouble banks (link) --som...

Remember that tee-hee about OJ's mortgage and how a note in the WaMu file said the judgment against him wasn't any good because (he...

Someone in Florida had made a second-mortgage loan to O.J. Simpson, and I just about blew my top, because there was this huge judgment again...

There's so much good sense in Edward L. Glaeser's view of the mortgage market that it is really a surprise to see him go completely ...