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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
from some additional equity (assuming incomes rise). And unlike paying rent to a landlord, each time the owner pays their mortgage they are paying down principal and building equity, just like a market-rate owner. Taken together, these...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
90 and 95 percent of all the residential mortgages this year have been insured by, guaranteed by, or securitized by the government.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas noting that the government has kept the residential housing market...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and Patrick J. Barry look at three of the largest debacles so far in the 21st century—the BP affair, the mortgage meltdown and resulting crisis, and the use of lead paint in children's...
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- 01 Dec 2004
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Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
deficit, which amounts to “a wealth transfer to the rest of the world.” “We're like an enormously rich family that daily is selling off a little piece of the farm, or mortgaging it to the rest of the world.” Buffett spent much of his time...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
same way. A home mortgage is a simple example of how our work is commonly applied. Most mortgages allow the homeowner the option to prepay the mortgage before its term is up....
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- 01 Dec 2008
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What Went Wrong?
from securing mortgages to saving for kids’ college tuition and retirement. But the country’s current financial crisis really threw me for a loop. Beginning last spring, with the demise of Bear Stearns, the steady drip, drip, drip of bad...
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- 03 Apr 2019
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Finding Common Ground
the Cicero Group in 2001, working out of his house with a few colleagues. “When I talk to young entrepreneurs today, they always ask about my business plan,” he notes. “I have to laugh. My business plan was a mortgage and a baby on the...
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Deborah Blagg
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
out on his own, and he and Fern bought ZAX, Inc., a struggling company that produced custom-designed wood and laminate office fixtures, because, well, he thought he’d give that a shot. “We basically had to mortgage everything, including...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Capitalism.” Not a word was mentioned about the credit disaster facing our nation today. The article stresses the remarkable recent prosperity of capitalism, and points out some concerns. It does not speak to the abuses of the mortgage...
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- 25 Aug 2015
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Sunset in the East?
mortgage or with very little debt. Unlike in the United States, banks are also less on the line in real estate. We should always keep in mind that the Chinese property market was stagnant or worse (nonexistent) for 30 years after the...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
these developments. Imagine if you were allowed to represent your income on your tax forms and on your mortgage application differently. In a moment of weakness, you might portray your economic situation in two distinct ways. Unlike...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
negotiable CDs, and so on. Across Wall Street, with takeovers, LBOs, S&Ls, over-the-counter derivatives, high-tech stocks, telecoms, subprime mortgages, and of course mortgage securitization, innovation was too often accompanied by abuse....
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Alumni Books
the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into...
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- 28 May 2019
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INK: Maker’s Manual
the toughest person I know—except for my cofounder. I had a mortgage and three sons, and I was the primary earner in my family during the economic crisis. But building a company also means being tough in a good way. I have always believed...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
easier is if you've spent your life living below your means. And so many of us don't do that. And we buy big mortgages and buy more than we need, and really the easiest thing to do is pay yourself first and live below your means and...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and wanted his help. “It was one of those calls you don’t say no to,” says Bernstein, now serving as the bureau’s deputy assistant director of mortgage and home equity markets. “The CFPB is the largest...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
to restructure home mortgages in a manner homeowners can afford is at the heart of our financial crisis. We have paid a terrible price for not addressing the foreclosure crisis at its inception, but it is never too late to start. How can...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future
$4 a gallon, stunning American motorists. The results were predictable: Prices for everything skyrocketed, and an already recessionary U.S. economy, soon to be slammed by the mortgage and credit crises, began slouching toward the 1930s....
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
employment system and therefore do not qualify for Infonavit, a government loan and public housing agency that grants more than half of Mexico’s mortgages and is funded in part by a 5 percent payroll tax. Their idea is validated in a talk...
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