ING Groep NV, the Dutch bank and insurer, reported net profit of euro71 million for the second quarter on Wednesday, down 96 percent from euro1.92 billion in the same period a year earlier, before the financial crisis struck.
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ING reports profit of euro71M in Q2, down 96 percent (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
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Crisis leaves three lessons unlearned two years on (Daily Telegraph)
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In the beginning there was only a financial crisis. When the US subprime mortgage market blew up in August 2007 few economists worried too much about the wider impact.
Northeast Ohio economist looks for myths in the mortgage mess (WKSU Kent State University)
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Subprime mortgages were at the epicenter of the U.S. economic meltdown. Cleveland Federal Reserve senior researcher Yuliya Demyanyk buys that. But her research has led her to challenge a lot of the other assumptions about the economic meltdown, and to issue a paper called, 'The Ten Myths about Subprime Mortgages." WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports.
Gov?t mortgage partners sued for abuses (Culpeper Star-Exponent)
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The AP found that at least 30 servicers have been accused in lawsuits of harassing borrowers, imposing illegal fees and charging for unnecessary insurance policies
National consumer agency would upend structure (Chicago Tribune)
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Obama's proposal to strip regulatory power from as many as eight federal agencies is meeting resistance from those who say another bureaucracy could stifle innovation in financial products. Congress gave the Federal Reserve the power to enact rules to protect consumers from unscrupulous mortgage lending in 1994. But as the years passed and risky subprime loans inflated the housing bubble, ...
Citigroup Uses Government Funds to Re-Enter Warehouse Lending (Bloomberg)
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Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. will lend as much as $2 billion to independent mortgage firms, hoping to profit in a business it mostly exited after the market seized up in 2007.
Graydon Carter's Monthly Mortgage Payment Is Probably Less Than Your Rent [Media Elite] (Gawker)
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Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has an interest-free $5.3 million mortgage on his four-story greek revival townhouse in Greenwich Village, courtesy of his sweetheart deal with Cond
Home construction slows in region (Albany Times Union)
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Pace continues to fall, extending trend that began before mortgage crisis
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