Monday, Aug 11, 2008

Mortgage-Market Trouble Reaches US Credit Unions

Wall Street Journal: Mortgage-Market Trouble Reaches Big Credit Unions

This is a front page story at the Wall Street Journal in the US. The long and short of it is that huge losses are lurking in credit unions in the US. These are supposedly safe building society-like institutions which are quite conservative. But, they have lost so much, they may be wiped out.
I'm not sure if the article has free access, so please see my blog entry for further commentary on the article:
http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2008/08/credit-unions-in-trouble.html

Posted by edwardnh @ 07:00 PM (197 views) Add Comment

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