Wall Street has a new villain. The market has been riding a volatile wave of whiplash in recent weeks and the daily blame game has been ending with the proverbial finger pointed at subprime mortgages.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Lisa VonAhn NEW YORK (Reuters) - In journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld's new novel, "The Subprimes," millions of indebted Americans ...

In his new novel, The Subprimes, Karl Taro Greenfeld charges in where most of us would fear to tread. Carol Burnett could have warned him. "It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in ...

In a historic shift that continues to fuel the housing crisis here, high-priced mortgages known as “subprime” loans broke out of Central Florida’s mostly poor and urban neighborhoods in recent years ...

Karl Taro Greenfeld’s frisky new satire, “The Subprimes,” is like an unsettling preview of coming attractions, a world where the growing gap between the haves and have-nots is so broad, it threatens ...

La crise des crédits aux États-Unis a aussi fait des heureux : ces gérants de fonds spéculatifs qui, sentant le vent tourner, ont parié sur la baisse des produits dérivés de crédit et empoché des ...

Karl Taro Greenfeld’s The Subprimes taps deep into the roots of modern precarity. It’s light comedy about weighty subjects: wealth inequality, environmental devastation, the erosion of democratic ...

Karl Taro Greenfeld has written seven books, including Triburbia and Boy Alone. In his new novel, The Subprimes, Karl Taro Greenfeld charges in where most of us would fear to tread. Carol Burnett ...

NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) - In journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld's new novel, "The Subprimes," millions of indebted Americans live in encampments where they constantly face the prospect of eviction and ...