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IN THIS STORY FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, IT IS CLEAR THAT FLOUNDERING FEDERAL POLICY-MAKERS ARE AVOIDING THE ESSENTIAL ISSUE — WE HAVE TRILLIONS OF “DOLLARS” OF DERIVATIVES OUT THERE THAT ARE HUGELY OVERVALUED BECAUSE OF FRAUDULENT APPRAISALS SUPPORTING THE APPEARANCE OF A RISING HOUSING MARKET. And now many other securities and loan arrangements are […]
Trouble for American Consumer is building and the perfect storm threatens our tenuous economy. DEEP RECESSION LOOMS WITHOUT FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN OUR POLITICS AND ECONOMIC POLICIES The inevitable outcome was always the same: eventually we would hit the the top, like in any Ponzi scheme. Consumers, who maxed out their credit cards, and maxed […]
I have two answers for you on the question of fairness. 1. How fair is it, after you have saved and conducted yourself properly and with financial savvy, to see the value of your investment steeply decline as a result of some game Wall Street was playing with the banks? How fair is it that […]
April 6, 2008 FAIR GAME A Road Not Taken by Lenders By GRETCHEN MORGENSON WE’VE all heard a great deal in recent months about the greedy borrowers who caused the subprime mortgage calamity. Hordes of them duped unsuspecting lenders, don’t you know, by falsifying their incomes on loan documents. Now those loans are in default […]
Memo to all Senators, Congressmen and state legislators: The solution proposed by Barney Frank for the Mortgage Meltdown is dead-on right. Suck it up. The disaster that awaits will fall on your record unless EVERYONE gets something they can go home with. Any lender that opposes this is arguing for their own disaster. This […]
Collateral damage and contributing damage From CNN and NY Times: Loss of jobs means loss of income, loss of tax revenue, increased defaults on home loans, credit cards etc. The downward spiral of economics and the upward spiral of inflation are here. They will continue to feed off of each other. It is political cowardice […]
U.S. economy in ‘very difficult period,’ Bernanke says By Greg Robb Last update: 9:30 a.m. EDT April 2, 2008 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – The outlook for U.S. growth has worsened since January and the possibility of a recession can’t be ruled out, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday. “It not appears likely that real gross […]
A helpful article: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — For many people, filing for bankruptcy is seen as a scary, worst-case scenario, but consumer advocates say this last resort could be a real help for beleaguered homeowners. There is no shortage of proposals in Congress to address the housing crisis: the Depression-era Federal Housing Administration is up for […]
That’s Trillion with a “T” Most people agree that we can’t correct the problems that are still unfolding unless we admit the severity of the problem. The current estimates of a maximum of $450 billion damage are absolute lies designed to give reassurance to people who could and probably should cut and run. As long […]
You can argue all you want on paper with equations and philosophical arguments, but a simple human fact remains true — if people do not feel any moral sense of accountability they will not act in accordance with a reasonable standard of good character. Without character the entire society, and of course the economy, goes […]


