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Keyword: housing bubble

Savers, Suckers? (5/12/2010)

Savers are collateral damage in the Fed’s attempt to resuscitate a comatose economy during the Great Recession.

Keywords: bailout, borrowers, CD, certificates of deposit, FDIC, Fed funds rates, housing bubble, interest rate, money market funds, mortgage, quantitative easing, recession, savers, Saving, spenders, the Fed, Treasury bonds, yield

Under Water (1/22/2010)

Securitization of mortgage loans has fueled a US housing bubble whose bursting has put one in four mortgages under water.

Keywords: CDS, credit default swaps, housing bubble, mortgage-backed securities, rating agencies, securitization, subprime loans