TAMPA — Thousands of miles from the trading floors of global stock markets, an abandoned house in one of Tampa’s poorest neighborhoods is an improbable place to learn about why the world’s financial system is collapsing.
But if you want to understand how we got into this mess, the stucco house at 4809 N 17th St. isn’t a bad place to start.
Beer bottles and shards of glass litter the yard. A blue tarp covers much of the rotting roof. Boards shutter the windows.
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Mortgage
Home Loans, Mortgage
The Bush administration and the Federal Reserve announced on November 25 almost $800 billion dollars in additional funds to help, bail out, or otherwise prop up the financial sector, bringing to nearly $7 trillion the total sum that the federal government has thus far spent or pledged to spend in its feckless efforts to spare America’s largest corporations from insolvency. Included in the latest package is $200 billion for the purchase of securities backed by many different kinds of loans, including student, credit card, auto, and small business. Such loans have become much harder to obtain in recent months, and the Fed’s action is intended to get credit in these areas moving again.
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Mortgage
bailout, FED, Mortgage
