Scott Mintz

The World

Parsing the Obama housing plan with Alvin Hall, Part Two

Global Politics

We talk with Alvin Hall about a more complicated situation: speculators, the guys who bought homes as investments, now have a lot to lose as mortgage payments escalate and housing prices fall.

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