#225 Planet Money: The End Of The Housing Bust
The economy won't be healthy until the housing market bottoms out. It may take another year. On...
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#211 Planet Money: Toxie's Origin Story
A few years back, when the housing market was going nuts, people didn't know we were in the...
#207 Planet Money: Wall Street Trickery Inflated The Bubble
Financial trickery! Self-dealing! CDOs! On today's podcast, we return to the last days of the...
#197 Planet Money: We Take Toxie On The Road
Our latest payment from Toxie was supposed to arrive this week. Once again, we got zero dollars...
The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania almost never use credit. The one exception...
Planet Money: A Personal Bailout
An Oregon woman bought a house at the peak of the market, just before prices began to tumble....
Listeners wrote to ask us what happened to all the private mortgage premiums that were paid to...
How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Met China
Economist Brad Setser obsessively studies the way China buys American debt. If the buying stops,...
Pension reforms, mortgage slowdown and student housing
Jonathan Eley and guests discuss the major pension reforms effective in April, how the mortgage...
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How Mortgage-backed Securities Work
The 2008 US financial crisis has been blamed on the excessive use of mortgage-backed securities....
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Loan Rangers: John Cassidy on the candidates and the crisis.
For Your Ears Only (On Air) 01/13/2013
Confirmation Confrontation, Mortgage Medicine, Technology: Tops and Flops, Fine Films and Oscar,...
For Your Ears Only (On Air) 01/02/2011
More Best of 2010, Lessons from Underground, Foreclosure Fiasco, Conservative Case for Gay...
Kling on Freddie and Fannie and the Recent History of the U.S. Housing Market
Arnold Kling of EconLog talks with host Russ Roberts about the economics of the housing market...
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In the U.S. and the U.K., there are many types of housing, as there are in every country. Learn...
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Why you're wrong about a number of hypotheticals in the US by looking at how it works in Canada....
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We're continuing our Q&A series this week and today I handle these two questions: 00:01...
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Financial Strategies for Those Who Lack Retirement Savings
At least 1-in-5 Americans has no assets or a negative net worth and as many as 40% will not have...
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Building Wealth with an Automatic Investment Plan
Setting up an automatic investment plan can be a great way to begin building wealth. Automatic...
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Powerful Ways to Increase Your Investment Returns
In today's volatile markets, investors are always looking for repeatable ways to make more money...
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