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Devastating Crisis Unfolds: Against The Current vol. 132
Brenner, Bob
Article
2008
Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have...
Farm Gate Defence
Wilford, Allen
Book
1986
Describes how farmers have been driven to come together to defend their farms in the face of high interest rates, mounting production costs and low prices.
Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 1
Dayen, David
Article
2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn't exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage sho...
Foreclosure Fraud Is Supposed to Be a Thing of the Past, But It Happens Every Day 2
Dayen, David
Article
2016
Every day in America, people continue to be kicked out of their homes based on false documents. The settlements over allegations of robosigning, faulty paperwork, and illegal mortgage servicing didn’t...
The Foreclosure-to-Rental Screwjob: Bernanke's Double-Whammy
Whitney, Mike
Article
2011
The US government is preparing to bail out the banks once again.
Foreclosures and the Police State: Hernandez Family Foreclosure Sparks Anti-Eviction Outrage
Radford, Leslie
Article
2012
The story of the Hernandez family, who became local heroes in their determination to keep their Van Nuys home from foreclosure.
Freedom for the Speech We Hate: a Legal Guide to Your Protest Rights
Whitehead, John
Article
2017
A list of Constitutional questions and answers, including laws and guidelines for peaceful protesting, aimed at promoting the effectiveness of the First Amendment.
Mortgage Companies Seek Time Travelers to Find Missing Documents
Dayen, David
Article
2016
Recruiters are hiring for a job that shouldn’t exist: finding "missing" documents required to "complete" broken chains of title on mortgages entering foreclosure. Since all assignments of mortgage sho...
Resistance After Foreclosure: Against The Current vol. 158
Burt, Dave
Article
2012
In 1973, in the class- and race-polarized city of Boston, City Life began as a socialist collective fighting against evictions and gentrification in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Over the years, it ...
Update on Detroit
Feeley, Dianne
Article
2014
Feeley provides an update on the economic situation in Detroit as the city declares bankruptcy and is suffering from foreclosures, evictions, pension and funding cuts.
Which Way Out for Detroit?
Feeley, Dianne
Article
2013
Feeley discusses the prevention of further home foreclosures in Detroit through a consideration of two of the most urgent issues: unemployment and evictions. These indicators reflect the poverty of th...

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Mnuchin Lied About His Bank's History of Robo-Signing Foreclosure Documents
Dayen, David
2017
Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin lied in his written responses to the Senate Finance Committee, claiming that "OneWest Bank did not 'robo-sign' documents," when ample evidence proves that the...