Editor's Note: I don't emphasize this point because  it wouldn't change anyone's mind. But the comparison Dalio put on the table is one with which I am familiar. Nobody in Germany ever imagined that an extremist nut like Hitler could ever rise to power, that inflation would be going at 2500% per month and the economy would fall apart. Germany…[...]

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Tags: business insider, CNBC, Dalio, Hitler, social unrest
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Editor's Comment: The practice of disregarding normal loan underwriting standards creates a claim that homeowners were tricked into loans that they could never repay. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, built by Elizabeth Warren under Obama's direction is about to pass a rule that addresses that very issue. The new Rule would allow homeowners contesting foreclosure to introduce evidence challenging whether…[...]

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Tags: CFPB, credit default swaps, Elizabeth Warren, Federal Bailout, foreclosures, housing, insurance, investors, Obama, Richard Cordray, TARP, underwriting
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For representation in South Florida, where I am both licensed and familiar with the courts and Judges, call 520-405-1688. If you live in another state we provide direct support to attorneys. call the same number. Having watched botched cases work their way to losing conclusions and knowing there is a better way, I have been getting more involved in individual…[...]

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Editor's Comment: It is a familiar playbook in drug enforcement, police corruption, and now corruption arising out of the millions of faked, fraudulent Foreclosures --- find a guy low down in the chain and throw him under the bus. This guy was making millions on False Inspections. But the government is complicit in an active way in public settlements like…[...]

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Editor's Note: Hera research conducted an interview with Neil Barofsky that I think should be  read in its entirety but here the the parts that I thought were important. The After Words are from Hera. After Words According to Neil Barofsky, another financial crisis is all but inevitable and the cost will be even higher than the 2008 financial crisis.…[...]

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Tags: banks, Barofsky, borrowers, business, economy, foreclosure, government, HAMP, homeowners, housing, investors, Real estate, servicers
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"The bottom line is that conservatives don't conserve anything. They have their hand deeper into the public purse than anyone else. Liberals don't liberate anyone either, providing the tools to prospects for progress and prosperity. The terms should not be used because nobody means what they say." Neil F Garfield livinglies.me Editor's Comment: Romney's latest gaffe is only a mistake…[...]

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Another Small Fry Thrown Under the Bus Editor's Comment: It is a familiar playbook in drug enforcement, police corruption, and now corruption arising out of the millions of faked, fraudulent Foreclosures --- find a guy low down in the chain and throw him under the bus. This guy was making millions on False Inspections. But the government is complicit in…[...]

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Tags: False appraisals, false defaults, false documents, false end of month statements, false inspections, false loans
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Full circle (or spiral). What is the end result? You start off with the investors having money and now they don't. You also start with people who own their homes and now they don't or won't soon enough if these fake Foreclosures are allowed to continue. You start off with banks being strictly intermediaries with no stake in the transaction.…[...]

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LPS has settled with Missouri for non-prosecution. The Missouri AG agreed to accept the assertion of LPS that it had no idea that all the criminal behavior was ever happening. They are soooooo sorry that they are paying $2 million to the state as a charitable contribution. Think I'm joking? read the article. This is an outrage and should be…[...]

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Tags: Docx, LPS, Missouri
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New Jersey moves into the lead. We have been comparing this to a ball game to make the point that we are only in the 5th inning of a very long game. We have many years to go before this spreading contagion of fake foreclosures is over. It might better be analogized to a horse race where one state leads…[...]

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Tags: defaults, New Jersey
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