Archive for 'bubble' Category
Aug 15, 2010

EDITOR’S NOTE: I don’t know Brad Miller bradmiller.house.gov but I’m sending him a donation. Gretchen Morgenson says he’s worth getting to know and I am going to do just that. He’s running for re-election in North Carolina, and except for a scant few other members of Congress, he is one of the few that has actually […]

Aug 13, 2010

SHELL GAME CONTINUES. WHO HAS THE BOND? WHO HAS THE RECEIVABLE? WHO HAS THE SECURITY INTEREST? WHO IS GETTING PAID? WHERE ARE THE MONTHLY PAYMENTS GOING? FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC ARE BIG PLAYERS, AS IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE. ARE THEY THE ONES REALLY FORECLOSING UNDER COVER OF SECURITIZATION? EDITOR’S NOTE: Another entry under the […]

Aug 12, 2010

12debt.html?_r=1&ref=business EDITOR’S NOTE: It is ironic how reality eventually catches up with illusion. While we have been pounding on the issue of principal reduction as the only realistic way out of the recession, and while the financial industry has been busy convincing people that principal reduction is somehow immoral, the contraction of home prices back […]

Aug 11, 2010

ONE MORE QUESTION TO ASK IN DISCOVERY: WHAT ENTITIES WERE CREATED OR EMPLOYED IN THE TRADING OF MORTGAGE BONDS, CDO’S, SYNTHETIC CDO’S OR TOTAL RETURN SWAPS (NEW TERM)? EDITOR’S COMMENT: LOUISE STORY, in her article in the New York Times continues to dig deeper into the games played by Wall Street firms. You’ll remember that […]

Jul 29, 2010

Our good friend “Anonymous” has piped up with more vital information and expressed it more succinctly than I did. “The senior tranches have largely already been paid and closed. Since the junior tranches are paid only if there is left over current payment – after the senior tranches have been paid. Thus, junior tranches are […]

Jul 26, 2010

64868?RS_show_page=0 EDITOR’S NOTE: How refreshing to see someone who approached this not with caution but with a desire for truth. Read this and you will understand a lot more about the Great Recession. “The “Pig in the Poke” scam is another key to the entire bailout era. After the crash of the housing bubble — […]

Jul 25, 2010

It’s no secret that I admire Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times. Her articles have penetrated deeper and deeper into the realities and logistics of the Great Financial Meltdown. But she continues to drag myth alongside of reality. True, it is difficult to get your mind around the idea that Wall Street managers WANTED […]

Jul 23, 2010

STICKIER THAN THEY THINK: These are not the only mortgage securities they hold and they all amount to ownership of the risk on every loan they purchased. The purchase of course was accomplished in one of many ways — direct and indirect. But when you come down to it, between the GSE’s (which are now […]

Jul 19, 2010

SOMEBODY SEND ME THE COMPLAINT PLEASE —> NGARFIELD@MSN.COM Registration Statements omitted and/or misrepresented the fact that the sellers of the underlying mortgages to JP Morgan Acceptance were issuing many of the mortgage loans to borrowers who: (i) did not meet the prudent or maximum debt-to-income ratio purportedly required by the lender; (ii) did not provide […]

Jul 17, 2010

July 16, 2010 A.I.G. to Pay $725 Million in Ohio Case By MICHAEL POWELL and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH The American International Group, once the nation’s largest insurance group before it nearly collapsed in 2008, has agreed to pay $725 million to three Ohio pension funds to settle six-year-old claims of accounting fraud, stock manipulation and […]