without raising taxes one cent, many states could recover much or all of their deficit and perhaps some states could be looking at a surplus. The money is sitting on Wall Street waiting to be claimed through existing tax laws, regulatory fees, and even damage claims much like the Tobacco litigation. Editor's Note: Bob Herbert of the New York Times…[...]

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Announcing the establishment of the Homeowners Electronic Registration System (HERS) to assist in mortgage negotiations, litigation, foreclosures and modifications. HERS v MERS, Get It? We are looking for someone to go through the comments and blog posts that give the name of an officer or other person signing any paper involved in the mortgage or foreclosure of property and to…[...]

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SEE The Economics and Incentives of Yield Spread Premiums and Credit Default Swaps March 23, 2010: Editor's Note: The YSP/CDS paper is intentionally oversimplified in order to demonstrate the underlying economics of securitization as it was employed in the last decade. To be clear, there are several things I was required to do in order to simplify the financial structure…[...]

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Bear in mind now, that underneath this all are subprime mortgage loans and pool of subprime mortgage loans in which only eight percent have to go bad for the whole CDO to be worth zero. NPR Interveiw with Lewis Author Submitted by Ron Ryan, Esq. (Tucson) with the following comment: The story broke on 60 minutes last week and on…[...]

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Editor's Note: The ankle-biting is rising to a crescendo. Wait till you see what happens next. The insurers are not just alleging misrepresentation or negligence. They are saying that Countrywide and others knowingly originated bad loans. And as I have explained before on these pages they are finally "getting it." Bottom Line: The worse the loan, the higher the profit. …[...]

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Editor's Note: The primary reason for foreclosing on the wrong house is that the wrong party (not the creditor) is initiating the foreclosure and therefore lacks sufficient information about the loan, the property or the debtor. These events are corroboration of stories previously published showing that loans were placed in "pools" even though they never closed and therefore didn't exist.…[...]

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The five biggest U.S. commercial banks in the derivatives market -- JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co. -- account for 97 percent of the notional value of derivatives held in the banking industry [$605 trillion], according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Goldman Sachs Demands Collateral It Won’t Dish Out…[...]

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