On September 6, 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency put Fannie Mae ... Contagion Effect Leading to Global Financial Crisis The financial markets’ collapse in the U.S. had a contagion ...

"When was it more challenging to buy a house in Berkshire County?" columnist Mitchell Chapman writes. "When Sprague Electric and General Electric were pulling out of the county in the ...

it began in the mid-1990s—taking almost a decade before the financial crisis of 2008. Today, many Americans find themselves unable to afford housing. .According to the U.S. Department of Housing ...