Credit Crunch Credit Crunch
New federal guidelines for banks and credit card companies that boost minimum monthly payments have wreaked havoc on American families struggling to pay their bills and avoid bankr...
Jan 31, 2006 / Feature / Mark Winston Griffith
Monetary Zombies Monetary Zombies
We're on our way to being a society of economic zombies, half dead and half alive, buried in debt but prevented by credit card companies from declaring bankruptcy.
Jan 17, 2006 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Pop Goes the Real Estate Bubble Pop Goes the Real Estate Bubble
Stocks crash and housing prices tend to go down with a whisper. But a disturbing number of signs now point to a sudden burst of the real estate bubble.
Oct 5, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
The Bank of Wal-Mart? The Bank of Wal-Mart?
Sounds like an episode of The Simpsons, but this is for real: The retail giant wants even more of your money.
Aug 31, 2005 / Feature / Liza Featherstone
Sins & the Citi Sins & the Citi
Where is the public's outrage over corruption in US finance and banking?
Jun 16, 2005 / William Greider
Why the Bubble Popped Why the Bubble Popped
This clutch of books offers an excellent retrospective on the recent stock-market crash, which wiped out $8.5 trillion in market value.
Apr 15, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill
The Cruelest Month The Cruelest Month
Like mushrooms after a spring rain, signs pop up at this time of year in hardscrabble urban neighborhoods across the country, promising quick and easy money.
Apr 8, 2004 / Bobbi Murray
Hubris Unbound Hubris Unbound
See also Tim Shorrock's March 2002 story for The Nation on the Carlyle Group.
May 8, 2003 / Feature / Tim Shorrock
Wall Street’s Soiled Hands Wall Street’s Soiled Hands
The capital unscrupulously pumped from poor neighborhoods by way of predatory loans whizzes along a high-speed financial pipeline to Wall Street to be used for investment. "It's a...
Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Bobbi Murray
Hunting the Predators Hunting the Predators
Outraged at lenders who prey on the poor, activists are striking back.
Jun 27, 2002 / Feature / Bobbi Murray