The foreclosure crisis that devastated the economy in 2009 and 2010 was a many-headed monster, a disaster unlike anything the federal government had ever seen.
And it’s becoming clear that not only did the government have no idea how to handle it, but every fix it tried didn’t work. It was an epic failure, and federal regulators jumped on the opportunity to sweep it under the rug this month with an $8.5 billion settlement with 10 banks.
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Articles written by HousingWire Staff are non-bylined, and typically involve press release coverage and aggregation of coverage appearing elsewhere. So who put all these together? Our entire staff does!see full bio