`Subprime' is linguists' word of year
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Even the American Dialect Society knows how risky home mortgages are these days. The group of wordsmiths chose "subprime" as 2007's Word of the Year at its annual convention Friday.
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Subprime isn't totally to blame for the market's gyrations. Reg FD, hedge funds and electronic trading add volatility.
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English-derived neologism bids for world domination God alone knows what Cervantes would have made of it, but the English term "blogosphere" has slithered onto the growing list of neologisms shoehorned into the noble Castillian language, joining chatear, chip, formatear, Internet and mÃ³dem in a burgeoning list of tech and net-based foreign vocab.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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After a tumultuous year marked by volatility, recession fears and credit woes, top advisers place their bets.
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WASHINGTON - About 2 million subprime borrowers will lose their homes to foreclosure through 2009, costing them $71 billion in housing wealth, a congressional report said.
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Business & money: Fresh evidence emerges over the depth of America's sub-prime mortgage crisis.
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The problems of subprime loans hint at broader risks in financial markets.
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Wall Street is being spooked by the wrong fear. The 'I' word is scarier
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Wall Street is being spooked by the wrong fear. The ''I'' word is scarier
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The stories readers have been talking about this year.
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The electoral shorthand for a divided America and the perceived nastiness of the U.S. presidential race generated the defining words and phrases of the year, a Web site specializing in language said on Friday.
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Boston - A four-letter term that came to symbolise the difference between old and new media during this year&#39;s presidential campaign tops United States dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster&#39;s list of the 10 words of the year.
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THERE WAS a time when purchasing a home was something only married couples did. However, increasingly, single, widowed, and divorced women with and without children are making the choice to purchase a home on their own. Yet, the economic and social consequences of subprime lending practices on them are subjects few are discussing.
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Get up to speed on this resurgent financial trend.
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Ezra Poundâs words on usury, or ultra-high-interest lending and borrowing, come to mind when considering  the subprime problems that face this great nation.
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This just in from London: the U.S.  subprime mortgage market is in a tizzy.
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By Christopher Faille, Financial Correspondent