Archive for 'bubble' Category
Mar 11, 2011

COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION SEARCH, REPORT, ANALYSIS ON LUMINAQ NOTABLE QUOTES FROM NY TIMES ARTICLE BY FLOYD NORRIS: A surprising citadel of that second-guessing is at the International Monetary Fund, where researchers this week concluded that the rescues “only treated the symptoms of the global financial meltdown.” The researchers, Stijn Claessens and Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, warned […]

Mar 10, 2011

COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION SEARCH, REPORT, ANALYSIS ON LUMINAQ EDITOR’S QUESTION: Just what do they expect these people to do? The actual number of underwater homes  is now approaching 20 million or 40% of all homes — again because of the way they measure it, leaving out things that directly affect the actual price paid […]

Mar 10, 2011

COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION SEARCH, REPORT, ANALYSIS ON LUMINAQ I’ve been hearing conspiracy theorists tell me that the states didn’t want to stop foreclosures, they wanted to keep them going and speed them up BECAUSE the court administrators had done the math, especially in states like Florida, where the filing fees are so high. As […]

Mar 9, 2011

Collapse of David J. Stern law firm throws foreclosure courts into disarray By Susan Taylor Martin, Times Senior Correspondent In Print: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Attorney David J. Stern, whose law firm was once known as Florida’s top foreclosure “mill,” owns this $16 million Fort Lauderdale home. Now, as Stern himself faces financial difficulties, some […]

Mar 9, 2011

COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION SEARCH, REPORT, ANALYSIS ON LUMINAQ SEE modification-plan-sought-follow-the-money-not-the-paperwork EDITOR’S NOTE: Moynihan is pulling out the old argument, trying to stir up people who have been paying their mortgage so he and the other mega banks won’t be required to cough up trillions of dollars they stole through fraudulent appraisals of property inducing […]

Mar 9, 2011

COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION SEARCH, REPORT, ANALYSIS ON LUMINAQ EDITOR’S NOTE: Well we already knew that his son was working in SEC enforcement so it should come as no surprise that the SEC attorney that was involved in payouts to victims was also involved with Madoff. In fact, it should be no surprise that hundreds […]

Mar 8, 2011

COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION SEARCH, REPORT, ANALYSIS ON LUMINAQ NO SEATS FOR HOMEOWNERS AT BARGAINING TABLE 27_page_settlement2 And because Wall Street controls the message, drowning out the facts, most people are going to believe that this is just too complicated to resolve and that $20 billion is better than nothing. Actually it isn’t. By going […]

Mar 8, 2011

COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION SEARCH, REPORT, ANALYSIS ON LUMINAQ EDITOR’S NOTE: In 1983 the nominal value of credit derivatives was zero. Today it is over $600 TRILLION. None of this would have been possible without the active complicity of credit rating companies who as quasi public agencies “assured” the quality of securities sold to both […]

Mar 8, 2011

COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION SEARCH, REPORT, ANALYSIS ON LUMINAQ EDITOR’S COMMENT: The unfortunate moral of the story is that crime actually DOES pay even if you are caught. That 7 million homes were yanked out from under homeowners and millions more are on the butcher block doesn’t seem to matter. Stern made something like $100 […]

Mar 7, 2011

COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION SEARCH, REPORT, ANALYSIS ON LUMINAQ “For us to admit that we have let a small group of men abscond with and hoard the bulk of the wealth that runs our economy, would mean that we’d have to accept the humiliating acknowledgment that we have indeed surrendered our precious Democracy to the […]