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A peek into the art of mortgage duplicity

By Michael Hudson

In many of Ameriquest Mortgage’s far-flung sales branches, employees outfitted break rooms or spare cubicles with the tools they needed to c

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You broke it? You fix it.

By John Dunbar

The appraisal bubble

By Joe Eaton

Borrower Nightmares: Disabled homeowner alleges broker, bank sold her mortgage she couldn’t afford

By Ben Hallman

Countrywide protected fraudsters by silencing whistleblowers, say former employees

By Michael Hudson

You broke it? You fix it.

By John Dunbar

Firms that fed off the subprime lending frenzy that devastated the banking system are lining up to collect more than $21 billion in taxpayer

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Predatory lending: A decade of warnings

By Kat Aaron

The roots of the financial crisis: Who is to blame?

By John Dunbar and David Donald

Mortgage companies and the new regulatory regime

By Kat Aaron

Meltdown 101

By John Dunbar

Raging against the foreclosure machine

Automated foreclosure process creates errors, stifles modifications and enrages helpless homeowners

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Mortgage servicing standards at the top of consumer agency's agenda

By Julie Vorman and Shirley Gao

Treasury Department holding back on details of mortgage modification program

Treasury Dept. anti-foreclosure program "abysmal," says watchdog

By David Heath

Predatory lending: A decade of warnings

By Kat Aaron