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It’s now the only governing institution that understands the depths of the economic crisis.

The driving faith of the GOP has become the notion that the toxic mixture of moral hypocrisy and unfettered greed is a formula for victory.

The nation’s largest banks are methodically harvesting the last possible pound of flesh from millions of homeowners. We should put a stop to it.

Deficit hawks argue that excessive government spending drives the US's debt woes. They're wrong.

Second-lien debt could be a greater threat to bank solvency than the subprime disaster of 2008.

A most dastardly deed occurred last Friday when the Obama administration issued a 29-page policy statement totally abandoning the federal government’s time-honored role in helping Americans achieve the goal of homeownership.

The Titanic that is the US housing market has just sprung its biggest leak.

There aren't too many genuine heroes to come out of the banking disaster, but Armando Falcon is one of them--and had he been listened to, a significant part of the housing crisis could have been mitigated.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission sent a strong message by putting Wall Street titans under oath, but answers about the financial crisis proved evasive.

How the financial bailout scams taxpayers, subsidizes Wall Street and props up our broken financial system.