Who's Behind The Financial Meltdown
Center for Public Integr

In this groundbreaking report, investigative journalists from the Center for Public Integrity take on the subprime lending industry, whose loans are blamed for the global economic meltdown. Using computer-assisted reporting, the Center identifies the top 25 subprime lenders and reveals how they were backed by the same banks now collecting billions in bailout money. The articles were first published on the Center for Public Integrity website on May 6, 2009.

CONTENTS

• About the Financial Meltdown Project
• The Mega-Banks Behind the Meltdown: How Wall Street’s Greed Fueled the Subprime Disaster, by Bill Buzenberg
• The Roots of the Financial Crisis: Who Is To Blame?, by John Dunbar and David Donald
• Predatory Lending: A Decade of Warnings, by Kat Aaron
• Meltdown 101: Subprime Mortgages and the Road To Financial Ruin, by John Dunbar
• The Subprime 25: The Top 25 Lenders Behind Nearly $1 Trillion of Subprime Loans
• Methodology: How the Center Investigated 350 Million Loan Applications, by David Donald
• A Glossary of Terms for the Subprime Era, by Kat Aaron

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