The Foreclosure Crisis Solution Banks Don't Want You To Know: Right to Rent

Friday, November 11, 2011 The Foreclosure Crisis Solution Banks Don't Want You To Know: Right to Rent Brad Meyer occupies the real estate equivalent of the twilight zone. He lives in Milwaukee with his wife and children in the three-bedroom ranch house they purchased a decade ago. Except today, they rent it through American Homeowner Preservation, a small, Ohio-based company that purchases distressed properties and leases them back to the previous homeowner. Huge Percentage Of Global Workforce Is Depressed, Study Finds SEC Disciplines Employees For Not Stopping Madoff Fraud Moody's Considering Downgrade Of Penn State Laid-Off Bankers Face Prospect Of Having Nowhere To Turn Government Aid Helps Cut U.S. Poverty Rate Nearly In Half BLOG POSTS Aloysius Boyle: Battlefield to Boardroom -- Combating Veteran Unemployment These economic times are tenuous. The challenge of unemployment plagues our nation with a consistent 9 percent rate. While staggering, it is even worse with our veteran population. Jake Blumgart: Four Things Occupy Wall Street Should Know About the Federal Reserve Eliminating the Fed, adopting the gold standard and having a tight monetary policy are directly opposed to the occupiers' key goals: reducing unemployment, easing debt and stemming the foreclosure flood. Robert Teitelman: Backhouse and Bateman's Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes Writing about someone like Keynes who personally wrote so much, so well, must be a daunting task. Backhouse and Bateman more than keep up, not by competing with Keynes, but by letting him speak, in all his many voices. Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards: I'm in the 1% and I Pray You'll Tax Me I made it a point to be with Occupy Wall Street for a time. With my sign -- "I AM in the 1% PLEASE TAX ME!" -- I asked if I could join the others with signs. They welcomed me. Christine A. Scheller: Protesting Greed in the Shadow of 9/11 I went looking for diverse voices at Occupy Wall Street, and found the 9/11 memorial a better metaphor for "too big to fail."

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