Articles on Subprime Mortgage Crisis

Subprime Mortgage Crisis: An Introduction

As Safe As Houses! “As safe as houses”, this phrase is often used in our society. A house is supposed...

Dot Com Bust: Starting Point of Subprime Mortgage Crisis

The subprime mortgage crisis is a unique case in the fact that this bubble started from an earlier present bubble...

The Case Of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae

The role that the government played in causing the subprime mortgage crisis is highly debatable. However, the same cannot be...

Types of Mortgages from Lenders Point of View

The United States mortgage market was considered one of the most advanced markets in the world. It seemed like the...

Types of Mortgages from Borrowers Point of View

In the previous article, we studied about the different types of loans from the lenders point of view. Therefore we...

In the previous two articles, we have studied the different types of mortgages from the borrowers as well as from...

The new age mortgage market was extremely unlike the old one. The old one used to work based on a...

Collateralized Debt Obligations and Tranching

In the previous article, we learned about mortgage backed securities. We learned about how mortgages are pooled and then a...

Credit Market Freeze – Causes and its Importance

The sub-prime mortgage crisis and the credit freeze are often spoken about in the same breath. In fact, the layman...

The subprime mortgage crisis was basically a clash of ideologies. These ideologies were related to the centuries old belief regarding...

The Big Bust Washington Mutual (WaMu)

Washington Mutual (WaMu) was one of the oldest and biggest banks in the United States. Like many of its peers,...

General Motors and the Subprime Crisis

General Motors (GM) was one of the most unexpected casualties in the subprime mortgage crisis. This was because of the...

The Big Fall: Lehman Brothers

History Lehman Brothers started as a grocery store in Alabama in 1844. Over the years Lehman Brothers grew into a...

The Big Fall: Bear Stearns

The subprime mortgage crisis is known for the spectacular collapse of some of the largest financial institutions in almost no...