Predatory lending

Main Factors of the GFC. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis was built around a number of interrelated problems, which combined contributed to the emergence of a worldwide financial crisis in a more complex manner than a single factor could have. They can be identified as The Housing Bubble, Credit Market Failure, and Regulatory Failure. The US Housing Bubble The housing bubble in the United States began in the mid-1990s when people had increased their wealth from the stock market, pushing demand…

Authors of dystopian sci-fi novels use their imaginations to write novels, but what if they used more than their imaginations. Dystopian sci-fi novels have been written for many reasons, and have been influenced by many external and internal events. Many corresponding with our real lives including traumatic event, disease’s, and fears of the future, but what weaknesses of our society are the authors really trying to get across through books? Dystopian science-fiction examines the struggles of…

Nowadays Vancouver’s houses are most made by “gold” because of their shocking prices in all Canadians’ eyes. As a result, the housing affordability crisis has become one of the most serious issues which should be taken more controls by local government, instead of allowing such huge amount of foreign buyers purchase houses, because of the numbers of empty houses, the houses prices’ rising speed, and local people’s willingness of purchasing houses. The first reason that government should…

9/11 affected the economy still to this day , which killed nearly 3,000 people, is still being felt in 2017. Industries have changed policies, the government formed new agencies and the hearts and minds of Americans have been changed.There was a time, shortly after 9/11, that U.S. citizens had great trust in their federal government. In fact, trust in the government hit a peak not seen since the 1970s, according to historical Pew Research data. This was in response to the terrorist attacks. But…

The housing bubble crisis of 2008-2009 was predominately due to the banks over extending customers on their housing loans. The process to originate a mortgage is one to show you have sufficient means to make the monthly payments. Bankers overlooked this part of the verification and granted people who could not afford the payments. Unfortunately, those people called their mortgage servicers explaining that they cannot make the payments. Many were upset, some sold their houses, some could not…

Countrywide Home Loans The Company, Customers, History, Products, Services, and State Countrywide Home Loans (Countrywide HL) primarily provide, service, and sell mortgage loans. Mortgage loan and after-loan servicing include service such as collections and payment processing. As a leader in the mortgage industry, they provide these products and services to homeowners through prime and subprime mortgage loans and subsequently resell these loans to investors. In 2009, the United States (US)…

The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 continues to be a hot topic today because it still impacts the lives of people today. Consequently, there are many theories explaining why this crisis happened, who were key players, and who were negatively impacted. It is clear that subprime mortgages existed because it provided attractive returns however, these attractive returns came with extremely high risks that eventually did not work out in both the lenders and borrowers favor. According to Pajarska…

“The collapse of the United State economy in the 1930s forced government to enact a housing program – part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal program”. (Macionis, p. 325, 2013) The New Deal program allowed public housing policies; which provides financial grant to homeowners and builders. Originally conceiving this ideas seems to be a good answer for urban housing problematic but this plan didn’t flourish with serious inadequacy. More than a decade ago, there were a flood of…

The Company AIG was a company that had risen to the top through unethical procedures and acts. The company became a big financial giant in the insurance industry and later added the subprime mortgages to its portfolio that increased its profits into the billions. The company cut corners by aggressively lobbying for laws and rulings that would go in their favor (Thorne, Ferrell, & Ferrell, 2011). They came under investigation by the SEC because they thought they were reporting profits wrong.…

The instability of the U.S. housing market in recent years has been the cause for much anxiety. After the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, obtaining mortgages became more difficult, as laws were put in place in an attempt to prevent another housing crash. The disastrous effects of the crash complicated the matter of mortgages greatly. To alleviate some of the difficulties of obtaining and refinancing a home mortgages, Quicken Loans has developed a new system called Rocket Mortgage, that…