Mortgage crisis

But there's a catch.

Mortgage lenders fueled the financial collapse by marketing subprime loans to people who couldn't afford them. They disappeared as the housing market crashed, but subprime mortgages could return.

It's of those mornings where the brass at JPMorgan might not want to read the papers.

Federal prosecutors in New York are accusing the bank of defrauding the government by rushing home loans through the approval process, then selling them to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It may be too early to assign blame for Europe's economic crisis, but it is not too early to figure out what went wrong in this country back in 2008. Sheila Bair headed the FDIC back then, and is out with a new book this morning, in which she says she saw signs of trouble in subprime mortgages way back in 2006.

The U.S. Treasury has profited from buying mortgage-backed securities during the financial crisis.

Five big banks punished for illegal lending practices.

The Miami Herald has done a good piece of investigative work into how lack of regulation allowed persons with criminal histories to enter the...