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Car buyers borrow more, for longer terms
Adriene Hill Aug 14, 2012
Banks are willing to lend to buyers with subprime credit ratings again. Now you can be underwater on your car as well as your house.
Microeconomics through the eyes of a microbrewer
Charlie Mintz Aug 1, 2012
A brewer in Oakland says he'd love to expand, if he could only get a loan. His story illustrates a common complaint among small business owners.
New social finance site for student loans
Amy Scott Apr 2, 2012
SoFi launches an experimental new, community-based student lending program that provides students with lower cost loans and school alumni with a unique investment opportunity.
Save our savings
Chris Farrell Feb 24, 2012
Marketplace economics editor Chris Farrell says it's all very well telling us to save, but where are we supposed to put our money?
2011 in review: The banking industry
Heidi N. Moore Dec 28, 2011
From pesky hidden fees to the status of Dodd-Frank financial reform, from the impact of Europe's debt crisis to lending -- we look back at the year in banking.
Lender of last resort
David Brancaccio Dec 21, 2011
The ECB offers a historic $639 billion to 500 European banks.
Banks are lending again
David Brancaccio Dec 12, 2011
Between July to September of this year, bank credit lending was up 10 percent -- the highest rate since before the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008.
Where lending rose and dropped
Tess Vigeland Sep 21, 2011
And this final note. For all the pronouncements that we'd become better, smarter savers out of the financial crisis, looks like the wallets are out...
Question on banks lending
Paddy Hirsch Jan 21, 2011
From: Howard Goldberg
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:31 PM
To: Hirsch, Paddy
Subject: Your White Board Explanations are great and fun....I...
Hamsters with loans
Scott Jagow Feb 24, 2009
There's a lot of wheel-spinning when it comes to restructured loans. A bank regulator testified to Congress today that more than half of modified...
