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life after warming
June 27, 2020
Global Warming Is Melting Our Sense of Time Climate change isn’t just a brutal form of time travel to both the future and prehuman past, it is discombobulating to our very sense of linear time.
By David Wallace-Wells
white men with money
July 20, 2011
Countrywide Is Righting Wrongs, Writing Checks Would that make a better rap or country lyric?
By Noreen Malone
Banks Haunted, Sued by the Ghosts of Credit Unions Past The National Credit Union Administration is suing JPMorgan and Royal Bank of Scotland.
By Noreen Malone
the rich hunt
July 12, 2010
Only a Few Rich Homeowners Are Ruthless, Shameless The ‘Times’ figures about wealthy people who default on their home loans are a little misleading.
By Jessica Pressler
the rich hunt
July 9, 2010
By Jessica Pressler
fi-cri fallout
June 10, 2010
Deutsche Bank Is New Haven’s ‘Foreclosure King’ The German bank is deeply involved in the housing-market crisis.
By Jessica Pressler
fi-cri fallout
May 11, 2010
By Jessica Pressler
fi-cri fallout
Apr. 16, 2010
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Subprime Fraud (Updated) Says the firm let hedge-funder John Paulson pay them to structure a crappy CDO, then sold it to clients like it was awesome.
By Jessica Pressler
real estate
Dec. 30, 2009
Steady Case-Shiller Housing Index Gets Mixed Reactions Home prices in twenty major cities flattened out in October: Should we be worried?
By Chris Rovzar
toxic asshats
Dec. 24, 2009
Goldman’s Jonathan Egol Helped the Firm Short Its Own Clients While pure capitalists might appreciate the genius of this maneuver, on a human level it seems like an uncool thing to do.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
June 11, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
moving on up
Mar. 11, 2009
Emboldened Renters Explore Strange New World of Co-ops Falling prices make for a buyer’s paradise, but what if those buyers are totally average?!
By Jessica Coen
early and often
Oct. 9, 2008
McCain’s Mortgage-Bailout Plan Has Pretty Much Everyone Up In Arms Doubts are being raised in both liberal and conservative corners about the burden the plan places on taxpayers.
By Dan Amira
company town
Aug. 26, 2008
Is the New Broadway Esplanade Really Safe? That’s what some people lunching there wonder. Plus, the latest in New York media, finance, and legal news.
it just happened
July 31, 2008
Breaking News: Princess Chunk a Victim of Foreclosure The mortgage crisis has an adorable, slightly bloated, new mascot.
Idiot’s Guide: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Who are those farm children anyway, and why are they in trouble?
