Archive for 'Eviction' Category
Feb 27, 2008

Mortgage Meltdown Remedial Legislation Barney Frank has a good idea that will work. Mortgage notes must be reduced without penalty to borrowers, and of course continue the tax exemption for short sale.  Cooperation will be needed by FDIC, Federal Reserve, SEC, FASB, IRS, Controller of Currency and Treasury Department.  I would add the following AFTER […]

Feb 26, 2008

Back from a cross country trip for 6 weeks accumulating data “on the ground.” I am have discovered that the ripple effects of the economic mismanagement, the mortgage meltdown, the credit crisis, the housing crash, and many other factors are playing havoc not only with our current status but with our prospects. These are the […]

Feb 15, 2008

Events today lead me to say that the risk in holding “safe” AAA government or corporate bonds is far higher than they are priced. This does not mean that there will actually be defaults. But my analysis indicates that, at a minimum, several municipalities and corporations will default on their bonds this year and next year. How […]

Feb 13, 2008

Paulson’s announcement is really only a re-hash of prior “hope” and other plans. The important thing is that government and private sector are talking and starting to work together. We can only hope that they finally get down to business before the 30 day voluntary freeze is over and that the project, which is based […]

Feb 12, 2008

It is as though everyone has their head stuck in the ground, which is the most polite way of putting it. Look at the figures coming out — even PRIME borrowers are going delinquent. Lenders are struggling to regain capital requirements for lending, The Federal Reserve is essentially having no effect on the downslide, retail […]

Feb 11, 2008

The bottom line is that the Federal reserve is fast becoming irrelevant for reasons described below (and foecasted by Alan Greenspan in 1996), proprietary currencies already out number fiat currencies worldwide, and a return to local government chartered bank currencies and other trusted issuers is probably the only way we can restore order to the […]

Jan 29, 2008

The American Economy: Vapor without Value My effort here has been to point out that we are creating a fraudulent environment, much like an embezzler, that requires more fraud and more lies each time to cover up the last fraud and the prior lies. Our economy is now one which runs on boom and bust […]

Jan 24, 2008

David Leonhardt: Congratulations on your article today in the NY Times. You addressed the elephant in the living room. For about 100 years, the United States has been acting like an embezzling bookkeeper. First “borrow” a little. Then borrow more because of “necessity”, now you are in debt you cannot pay and living better than […]

Jan 14, 2008

The reason the Federal Reserve is having so little effect is that virtually all of the “bad money” was created out of its reach. People create their own money in many types of transactions, and even if some portion goes through the Federal Reserve, for purposes of accounting between banks, the creation and existence of […]

Jan 11, 2008

Program Approach to the Way Out: Send this to everyone you know   Baltimore suing Wells Fargo is a wonderful first step in setting the stage for softening the landing on the mortgage meltdown. They are completely correct, and the research behind the standing of governmental entities and agencies to sue the lenders is impeccable. […]