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Showing videos filed under: Sarah Ludwig
Sarah Ludwig: Foreclosure Fraud Continues
January 20, 2011"We need to shine a light on the big banks and all their different tentacles," says Sarah Ludwig of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, noting that all too many of the programs put in place to encourage banks to help homeowners fight foreclosure are voluntary, rendering them toothless. Instead, she calls for citizens to be aware of the banks' practices and to think about where we put our money.Sarah Ludwig, The Goldstone Report, and Obama's Op-Ed
January 19, 2011"We need to shine a light on the big banks and all their different tentacles," says Sarah Ludwig of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, noting that all too many of the programs put in place to encourage banks to help homeowners fight foreclosure are voluntary, rendering them toothless. Instead, she calls for citizens to be aware of the banks' practices and to think about where we put our money.Sarah Ludwig: Fighting Foreclosure Fraud
October 28, 2010Sarah Ludwig notes that the foreclosure fraud accusations rocking the nation's biggest banks are just a new round in the abuses that have been going on for years now.David Cay Johnston, The Loaded Chamber, and Sarah Ludwig
October 27, 2010A weak foundation cannot properly support a massive superstructure, as the leaning Tower of Pisa shows. The latest wage data show the disastrous results some of us warned about, although like the famous tower, the economy only lists badly and has not collapsed.Foreclosures and Financial Reform: Obama at Cooper Union
April 23, 2010President Obama came to New York to deliver a speech at Cooper Union this week, critiquing the financial crisis and making the case for the financial regulation bill heading for a Senate vote. He made the case for both free markets and for regulations on those markets, and called for Americans to come together to support financial regulation.Bill Fletcher Jr., Foreclosures and Financial Reform, and Cochabamba
April 23, 2010President Obama came to New York to deliver a speech at Cooper Union this week, critiquing the financial crisis and making the case for the financial regulation bill heading for a Senate vote. He made the case for both free markets and for regulations on those markets, and called for Americans to come together to support financial regulation.The People Fight Back Against Wells Fargo, A Foreclosure in Long Island, and The Cockburn's American Casino
August 26, 2009The city of Baltimore sued Wells Fargo in June for racial profiling while workers in Chicago took to the streets to protest its refusal to extend credit for Quad City Die Casting Company. Our guests tell explain what Wells Fargo got away with and how people are fighting back. Then, Long Island resident Olive Thompson's house was one of the hundreds of thousands that faced foreclosure due to the crisis. We went to her home in April to speak with her."No Regard to Race" at Wells Fargo?
June 19, 2009The National Fair Housing Alliance filed a complaint April 10, 2012 against San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, accusing the nation's largest mortgage lender of failing to maintain and market foreclosed properties in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Wells Fargo disputes the claim, saying that it conducts all lending practices in a fair and consistent manner without regard to race. Remember this report -- and the whistle-blower who blew racism at Wells Fargo wide open? This discussion appeared on GRITtv for the first time on June 19, 2009. No regard to race at Wells Fargo? You tell me.The Fight Against Wells Fargo, Two Spirits, and Steve Early is Embedded with Labor
June 18, 2009The city of Baltimore is suing Wells Fargo for racial profiling while workers in Chicago took to the streets to protest its recent refusal to extend credit for Quad City Die Casting Company. To discuss these recent events, we're joined by Sarah Ludwig, Kai Wright, Leah Fried and Beth Jacobson. Also on the show, New Yorkers step out to support Iran, the life and death of a transgendered Navajo teenager, and Steve Early on the labor movement.Chaos and the Mortgage Crisis
May 12, 2009Mortgage madness. Millions of Americans still face foreclosure. But there’s no guarantee that the Mortgage Reform and Anti-predatory Lending act will make it through the senate. In fact, every proposal put forward thus far has hardly forced industry's hand. Writing in the Nation magazine, Kai Wright says that Obama’s plan doesn’t address the larger question:
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