Most economic and legal discussion of the subprime mortgage loan crisis (and the follow-on financial crisis) focuses on the United States. However, many other countries participated in the subprime securitization aspect of the crisis, not just by buying U.S.-originated consumer mortgage-backed...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) funded "conforming" mortgages with cheap debt no matter how little capital they had or how risky the loans due to their public “agency” status. Private label securitizers (PLSers) were able to compete during the last decade due to public deposit insurance and...

The current financial crisis, which could have plunged the world into a financial abyss similar to the Great Depression, is far from resolved. The financial institutions, which this article asserts caused the crisis, have returned to profitability and have paid billions of dollars in bonuses,...