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The White House on the Foreclosure Crisis

By | 10.11.10 | 2:12 pm

Here is David Axelrod (PDF), speaking with CBS’s Bob Shieffer this weekend:

BOB SHIEFFER: Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse now we find that this sloppy paperwork by the lenders may have made some of these foreclosures now that are being contemplated invalid. Some of the

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Can an Accounting Fix End the Financial Crisis?

By | 10.02.08 | 4:03 pm

PHOENIX—Lost amid the Senate’s Wednesday night passage of a $700-billion Wall Street bailout plan was an effort by Sen. John McCain and others to “fix” an accounting rule that they believe has helped create the crisis.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, on More…

Mortgage Solution Missing in Bailout Plan

By | 09.25.08 | 8:39 am

Related Video: Pain on Main Street

As lawmakers continue fighting on Capitol Hill over a $700 billion taxpayer bailout for banks and lenders on Wall Street, the foreclosure machine grinds on and the mortgage crisis at the heart of the problem continues to worsen.

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