Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for October 15, 2010

OPEC Members Seek $100 Oil to Counter Dollar Weakness

Foreclosure Crisis Slams Into Banks

Bank of America Downgraded by Bond Market on Foreclosures: Credit Markets

How a rickety $75,000 home and a retired lawyer in Maine brought about a national foreclosure freeze

Washington Policy Makers Resist Calls for a Big Fix in Foreclosure Crisis

Must Read: From Carolyn Walker's "Truth To Power" website, the introduction to a new book, "The Montster: How A Gang of Predatory Lenders And Wall Street Fleeced America" by Michael W. Hudson

QE 2 And The Nominal Man

Caroline Baum: Fed Wants to Hoodwink Public, Only Fools Itself