A list of companies, governmental and quasi-governmental agencies (government-sponsored enterprises), and/or non-profit organizations involved in the various economic and financial crises of 2007–2008.
Housing Bubble
United States
National home construction companies Beazer Homes USA Hovnanian Enterprises Lennar KB Home NVR, Inc. PulteGroup Toll Brothers
Real estate and appraisal Coldwell Banker Prudential Financial
Associations American Society of Appraisers Appraisal Institute National Association of Home Builders National Association of Realtors Real Estate Counseling Group of America Urban Land Institute
Mortgage crisis
Subprime lenders New Century Financial Corporation American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation Accredited Home Lenders Countrywide Financial Northern Rock (UK) Ameriquest E-Trade Option One American Freedom Mortgage, Inc. MortgageIT NovaStar Financial American Equity Mortgage
Other lenders Washington Mutual Wachovia Suntrust Luminent Mortgage Capital Aegis Wholesale 1st National Bank of Arizona GreenPoint Mortgage Funding Velocity Commercial Lender Fremont Investment & Loan ResMAE Mortgage Corp Americans Brokers Conduit IndyMac Bank Aurora Loan Services LLC
Insurers American International Group Ambac MBIA Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation
Secondary and securitized mortgage market
Banks
BNP Paribas, France JPMorgan Chase, USA Citigroup, USA Deutsche Bank, Germany IKB Industriekredit-Bank, Germany Bear Stearns Sächsische Landesbank, Germany Goldman Sachs Lehman Brothers Bank of America Wachovia Netbank, USA UBS AG, Switzerland Northern Rock, United Kingdom HBOS, United Kingdom Merrill Lynch ., USA Washington Mutual Bank Dexia, Belgium, France Fortis, Benelux Royal Bank of Scotland Group, United Kingdom Lloyds Banking Group, United Kingdom Glitnir, Iceland Kaupthing Bank, Iceland Landsbanki, Iceland Anglo Irish Bank, Ireland
Governmental and quasi-governmental United States Department of the Treasury U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Federal Housing Finance Agency State of California Jefferson County, Alabama Vallejo, California
Central Banks Federal Reserve Bank Federal Reserve Bank of New York European Central Bank Bank of Japan Bank of England Central Bank of Russia
Credit rating agencies Moody's Standard & Poor's Fitch Ratings
Government sponsored enterprises
Fannie Mae, Federal National Mortgage Association Freddie Mac, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Nonprofit Organization
Community Organization ACORN Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now: accused of involvement
Credit Counselors Hope Now Alliance
United States officials' positions Of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and its reincarnation as an amendment of H.R. 1424, supporters and opponents:
Supporters Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System George W. Bush, President John McCain, U.S. Senator, Arizona, 2008 Republican nominee for U.S. President Barack Obama, U.S. Senator, Illinois, 2008 Democratic nominee for U.S. President Joseph Biden, U.S. Senator, Delaware, 2008 Democratic nominee for U.S. Vice-president
Non-supporters Dr. Ron Paul, U.S. Congressman, Texas District 14, former candidate for Republican nomination for U.S. President Chuck Baldwin, 2008 presidential candidate for the Constitution Party Cynthia McKinney, 2008 presidential candidate for the Green Party Bob Barr, 2008 presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party Ralph Nader, 2008 independent presidential candidate Raghuram Rajan, 2005-06 Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund
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