Adam Cohen

To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.

American Journalist

Sheldon Whitehouse

Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.

American Politician

Eric Schneiderman

I'm very interested in the more grass-roots consequences of the economic meltdown: issues related to mortgage foreclosures, debt collection, and the practices of credit card companies and others who hold a lot of consumer debt.

Kamala Harris

We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.

American Vice President

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

Brian Sandoval

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Lisa Madigan

Foreclosure is nothing new. And it certainly will always be a fact of life for some.

American Public Servant

Henry Paulson

Foreclosures are a significant problem; they're an economic problem.

Steve Mnuchin

In the press, it has been said that I ran a foreclosure machine.

Marcia Fudge

Remnants of the foreclosure crisis linger everywhere.

Refers to a serious financial problem where property is taken due to unpaid debt.

Financial Distress

Involves legal steps that lenders use to take back a property, often involving court.

Legal Process

Foreclosure often suggests financial failure or hardship.

Negative Connotation

Occurs when someone fails to meet the conditions of an agreement or contract.

Contractual Breach

Can refer to ending agreements beyond just property, like a business partnership.

Non-Property Usage

Suggests the abrupt end of an agreement before its natural or planned conclusion.

Early Termination

 First problem is just, well, where should we start? Because, you know, it's great for us, but bad for humans. We make a lot of mistakes in a lot of different contexts. You know, where are we actually going to start with this? And because we started this work around the time of the financial collapse, around the time when foreclosures were hitting the news, we said, hhmm, maybe we should actually start in the financial domain.

Laurie Santos: How...

 This tight-knit community also came together recently, and they purchased an abandoned building, an abandoned building that was in disrepair and in foreclosure. And with the help of friends and families and volunteers, they were able to take down the bulletproof glass,

How urban agriculture is...

 some pretty problematic financial products mainly but not only related to mortgages, which saw many thousands of people actually lose their homes. In 2010, in just one month, September, 120,000 people lost their homes through the foreclosures of that crisis.

What is economic value,...

 left me for another woman but I was keeping it together I mean my house had slipped into foreclosure and I couldn't bribe our grieving teenager out of his bathrobe for a million bucks but I knew I'd be ok if I could just power through

Time Debt PIPE Linda...

 and close your mind to alternative selves. You've probably experienced identity foreclosure. Maybe you were too attached to an early idea of what school you'd go to, what kind of person you'd marry, or what career you'd choose.

Adam Grant: What frogs...

 Days later, at his home, I went looking for answers, in his "office" -- the garage. There, I found a stack of overdue credit card bills and a foreclosure notice served to him on the day that he died.

Let's get honest about...

 As you know, in 2008 it all came tumbling down. Banks collapsed, global stock markets lost nearly half their value, millions and millions of people lost their homes to foreclosure. And at the bottom,

Why we ignore obvious...

 during the crisis and during the foreclosure and a bankruptcy of Detroit a lot of people lost their homes and moved out unfortunately within the area the city is not building any new homes

Detroit’s Urban...

 for over a decade. But when I met him, he was near foreclosure. Like nearly all of his neighbors, he'd received a knock on the door from a broker promising to refinance his mortgage.

Racism has a cost for...

 Red was the new black, and black neighborhoods were colored. The problem persists today, and we've seen it most recently in the foreclosure crisis.