The Privatopia Papers

MF Global Is Said to Have Used Customer Cash Improperly - NYTimes.com MF Global, like other brokers, can use customer cash if it puts up suf...

Fannie, Freddie executives score $100M payday post bailout - Nov. 15, 2011 Mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac received the b...

Bill Sugarman, the president of Benchmark Property Management, which represents the association, said he received complaints. The rules say ...

At planned Sunny Isles Beach condo, cars and drivers ride elevator home - Business - MiamiHerald.com Pull over into the designated space. ...

Boston Review — Lawrence Lessig and David V. Johnson: Reclaiming the Republic Before 2008, the zeitgeist was deregulation, and Wall Street s...

Insight: The Wall Street disconnect | Reuters David Mooney, chief executive officer of Alliant Credit Union in Chicago, one of the nation...

Stephens Media Completely Capitulates In Democratic Underground/Righthaven Case | Techdirt The key Righthaven case, in which the details of ...

Mayor's last-ditch effort to save Detroit would privatize 88,000 streetlights - CSMonitor.com Privatization is a murky option because ci...

Fannie Mae; Freddie Mac; California; subpoena - latimes.com The subpoenas ask the government-controlled finance companies to answer a series...

North Highlands Residents Angered By Broken Street Lights « CBS Sacramento Copper thieves shut down street lights across North Highlands in ...

A Failed Social Model: Providing Basic Goods Through Crushing Consumer Debt » New Deal 2.0 We have been living in a society where debts, rat...

Foreclosure Fraud: First Criminal Charges Filed In Nevada Over Robo-Signing The Nevada attorney general has indicted two midlevel staffers a...

Hercules Affordable Housing Initiative Spent Nearly $50 Million, Produced Almost Nothing HERCULES, Calif. -- There are 918 names on 'the...

Selling More CDS on Europe Debt Raises Risk for U.S. Banks - Bloomberg U.S. banks increased sales of insurance against credit losses to hold...

Hard times forcing desperate measures The central Minnesota town of Foley tried having its own police department and contracting with the co...

Newt Gingrich Freddie Mac Fees: Former House Speaker Reportedly Received At Least $1.6 Million From Housing Giant In recent months, GOP pres...

Hard sell for high-end senior living projects - Chicago Sun-Times The Clare at Water Tower, a high-rise that opened in 2008 at 55 E. Pearso...

Dennis Blackmon: Georgia Judge Mocks U.S. Bank Over Denied Mortgage Modification Georgia Judge Dennis Blackmon is fed up with bailed-out ban...

A Town in New York Creates Its Own Department Store - NYTimes.com Shares in the store, priced at $100 each, were marketed to local residents...

Occupy Homes: New Coalition Links Homeowners, Activists in Direct Action to Halt Foreclosures | Truthout A loose-knit coalition of activists...