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Paul Kiel's coverage of the foreclosure crisis at ProPublica won a 2011 Scripps Howard Award for business/economics reporting and a Best in Business award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. He’s produced stories for the Washington Post, USA Today, Slate, and American Public Media’s Marketplace, among others.

Before joining ProPublica in 2008, Kiel wrote for TPMmuckraker, Talking Points Memo's investigative reporting blog. TPM's coverage of the firings of U.S. attorneys and politicization of the Department of Justice won a George Polk Award for legal reporting.

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Treasury Still Vague on Penalties for Loan Mod Laggards

Nov. 30, 2009, 5:28 p.m.

The administration’s big mortgage modification program features $50 billion worth of carrots – but the stick part has been largely absent. Today, the Treasury Department made a vague threat of unspecified penalties against companies that don’t play by the rules of the loan-mod program.

GM Announces It Will Pay Back Gov’t Loan … With Gov’t Money

Nov. 16, 2009, 4:39 p.m.

Regulators Seize Another Recipient of TARP ‘Healthy Bank’ Bailout

Nov. 14, 2009, 1:09 a.m.

Govt’s Attempt to Push Transparency for Mortgage Mods Falls Short

Nov. 13, 2009, 10:49 a.m.

The Big Gov’t Mortgage Mod Program: The Latest Numbers

Nov. 11, 2009, 11:45 a.m.

Bailout: $15 Billion More to Fannie Mae (and More to Come)

Nov. 6, 2009, 1:46 p.m.

Your Bailout Update (Nov. 2009): $400 Billion Outstanding

Nov. 4, 2009, 2:30 p.m.

Taxpayers Lose $2.3 Billion with CIT Bankruptcy

Nov. 2, 2009, 12:44 p.m.

Bank Failure Friday: Nine Banks, One Big Failure

Oct. 31, 2009, 11:26 a.m.

Car Dealers Protected From New Consumer Protection Agency

Oct. 27, 2009, 11:19 a.m.

Freddie Mac, Given Oversight of Mortgage Mod Program, Falls Down on Job

Oct. 22, 2009, 11:38 a.m.

Four Banks in Govt’s ‘Healthy Bank’ Bailout Struggle to Survive

Oct. 19, 2009, 12:24 p.m.

Watchdog Report Throws Cold Water on Treasury Loan Mod Celebration

Oct. 9, 2009, 2:25 p.m.

Adding Up the Financial Rescue: Fall Edition

Oct. 2, 2009, 9:49 a.m.

Happy Birthday, Bailout: $390 Billion Outstanding

Sept. 30, 2009, 11:16 a.m.

The Foreclosure ‘Rescue’ Boom on Marketplace

Sept. 28, 2009, 12:06 p.m.

Why Authorities Haven’t Stopped the Foreclosure ‘Rescue’ Boom

Sept. 24, 2009, 4:58 p.m.

Bank Failure Friday: Labor Day Weekend Edition

Sept. 5, 2009, 10:21 a.m.

FHA Faces Mounting Losses

Sept. 4, 2009, 10:51 a.m.

Your August Bailout Update: $393 Billion Outstanding

Sept. 2, 2009, 11:25 a.m.

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