Predatory mortgages and other short-term causes of the foreclosure crisis
- "The Evolution of the Subprime Mortgage Market" - Souphala Chomsisengphet and Anthony Pennington-Cross, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 88(1), January/February 2006
- "Predatory Lending Practices" - website of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), archived in March 2007
- "The housing crisis: How we got here" - Russ Wiles, Arizona Republic, September 16, 2008
- - "Report to Congress on the Root Causes of the Foreclosure Crisis" - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, January 2010
- - "Goldman's uneasy subprime short" - Tracy Alloway, FT Alphaville, 10 December 2010 (archived)
- - Video: The Crisis of Credit Visualized - Jonathan Jarvis
The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis -- The Full Version By Jonathan Jarvis. Crisisofcredit.com The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This is the original, full version.
Legal action: Baltimore v. Wells Fargo and more
- "Bank Accused of Pushing Mortgage Deals on Blacks" - Michael Powell, New York Times, June 6, 2009 (archive)
- "Former Wells Fargo Subprime Loan Officer: Bank Targeted Black Churches as Part of Predatory Subprime Lending Scheme" - Elizabeth Jacobson with Amy Goodman & Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now, August 28, 2009 (archive)
- "Predatory-lending lawsuits on the rise: Homeowners and government officials are taking mortgage lenders to court for unfair lending practices." - Tami Luhby, CNN Money, October 9, 2009 (archive)
- "Baltimore, Memphis file new Wells Fargo lawsuits" - Jonathan Stempel, Reuters, April 8, 2010 (archive)
- "Baltimore can proceed with suit against Wells Fargo" - Brendan Kearney, Daily Record, April 25, 2011 (archive)
- "Ex-loan officer claims Wells Fargo targeted black communities for shoddy loans" - Ylan Q. Mui, Washington Post, June 12, 2012 (archive)
- "Baltimore Settles Landmark Fair Lending Case Against Wells Fargo" - Relman, Dane, & Colfax (archive)
- archive
- "Wells Fargo to pay $175 million in race discrimination probe" - Rick Rothacker & David Ingram, Reuters, July 12, 2012 (archive)
- "Wells Fargo settlement: A predatory lender pays up; Our view: the federal settlement with Wells Faro vindicates Baltimore's effort to recover losses caused by the company's discriminatory lending practices" - Baltimore Sun editorial, July 15, 2012 (archive)
- "Lawsuits allege predatory lending by HSBC, Bank of America", Kim Janssen, Chicago Sun-Times, April 1, 2014 (archive)
Foreclosures in Baltimore
- “City's tax sale foreclosure process must be reformed” by Margaret Henn, Baltimore Sun, October 28, 2014 (archive)
Robo-signing settlement
Bailout
- "Some ugly truths about the bank bailouts" - David Weidner, MarketWatch, 19 January 2015 (archive)
- "Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion Undisclosed to Congress" - Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz, Bloomberg News, 27 November 2011 (archive)
- Video: Bank Bailouts Explained (cartoon characters with computer voices) - Omar Malekan
The story of the bank bailouts, and what we've gotten so far in return. by Omid Malekan www.omidmalekan.com @malekanoms
Protest and unrest
- Career national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses bank bailouts on MSNBC, suggests that hyperwealthy bonus recipients contribute to a National Solidarity Fund to prepare for imminent class conflict. (video)
- "Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown" - Nafeez Ahmed, The Guardian, June 12, 2014 (archive)
- "Project Camelot" (Wikipedia article)
Homelessness
- Some online articles from Baltimore's Word On The Street news
Federal Reserve
- "Fed Held Back as Evidence Mounted on Subprime Loan Abuses" - Binyamin Appelbaum, Washington Post, September 27, 2009 (archive)
- "Paul M. Warburg" - Bertie Charles Forbes, Men Who Are Making America, 1917archive