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- Military town foreclosures: echoes of the Great Depression
  Posted by SoxFirst
  US soldiers who put their lives on the line in Iraq are losing their homes because of the subprime crisis. The last time veterans lost their homes to this extent was during the Great Depression
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- Blame subprime on the banks: accounting rule-maker
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  An accounting rule maker says the banks have created the subprime crisis
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- Subprime crisis drives litigation
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  Litigation is on the increase with the subprime crisis
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- Mark to market mess
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  To what extent is the subprime meltdown the result of an accounting technique
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- Subprime's parallels with Enron and WorldCom: Michael Oxley and Paul Sarbanes
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  The subprime crisis has some eerie parallels with Enron and WorldCom, say the two Sarbox co-authors. Michael Oxley and Paul Sarbanes says what's needed is more regulation
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- Pay packages rewarding failure
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  The big bonuses and payouts for executive might well have contributed to the subprime meltdown. All of the CEOs who failed got paid very well. Therefore, the pay plans had very perverse incentives.
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- Insurers: the latest subprime victims
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  The subprime disaster is hitting insurers hard with Fitch Ratings saying US life insurers have an estimated $7 billion to $8 billion in unrealized losses on subprime. There are several reasons why insurers will be the next big victims. And everyone will pay.
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SoxFirst
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Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.
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