Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson is a staff writer with the Center for Public Integrity and author of The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis.

Wall Street, Not Fannie and Freddie, Led Mortgage Meltdown

Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been cast as the major villains of the financial crisis, but Michael Hudson reports that Wall Street firms were the prime offenders.

Michael Hudson