A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law....

A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law....

Struggling homeowners who were overbilled by two Countrywide Financial subsidiaries for services such as lawn care and home inspections at t

Republicans insist that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "were the main cause of the nation's current financial turmoil” but a look at the data sh

Data shows Deutsche Bank was key patron of questionable mortgage lenders

As Congress negotiates a final version of financial reform, one group of lenders has already won a blanket carve out from increased bank reg

In the end, Angelo Mozilo settled for pennies on the dollar. ...

On the second anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy, staff writer Michael Hudson, the author of a new book on how Lehman helped fuel th

WaMu bank executives aware of rampant fraud but failed to act

Before Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley gained notoriety as a failed Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, she was best kno