One of the hardest things for people to get their minds around is how borrowers were defrauded. The nagging question keeps coming to mind “But you DID sign the loan and take the money, didn’t you?” Yes you did, but you did it because of a representation and virtual guarantee from several parties at the […]

Tags: appraisals, derivatives, loans, mortgage bonds, ratings
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“This will go on for a long time and a lot of people will be indicted,” “The government continues to show that it simply doesn’t understand how this market operated,” Editor’s Note: If you read this carefully, you get a flavor of how the derivative scam adventure involved everyone except its victims. Mind you, there […]

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In my opinion, the growing anger at Wall Street is giving Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon another chance at misdirection. They are using the current popular angst to steer the debate into whether derivatives and synthetic CDOs should be banned. In the end they will win that debate, and they should win it. What they […]

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“We did not service the loan,” Mr. Dale said. “We did not originate the loan, and we were not the financial entity that placed it into foreclosure. Do you understand what a trustee does?” Editor’s Note: Well, Yes Mr. Dale, we do understand what a trustee does and can do —- nothing. So why are […]

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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 […]

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The fact is that credit default swaps and other complex derivatives that have proved to be instruments of mass destruction still remain entrenched in our financial system three years after our economy was almost brought to its knees. Editor’s Note: Credit default swaps were the glue that held the mortgage meltdown scheme together. If there […]

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The most interesting part of this article is that our theory that third parties were actually paying the loan payments due to third parties that had “purchased” the mortgage loans, is validated. This of couse presents an interesting problem in foreclosure defense: the defense of payment is now doubled — one for the money received […]

Tags: bank losses, derivatives, foreclosure defense, payment
Posted in Eviction |

If you dig deep enough you will find that it wasn’t hard for regulators to figure out that we were heading for a “shock.” It wasn’t hard to figure out that there were abuses traveling downline to borrowers and upline to investors. And it wasn’t hard to figure out that the securities issued at both […]

Tags: ABS, CDO managers, default, derivatives, loans, plausible deniability, risk, subprime, tranche
Posted in Eviction |

Despite all efforts to conceal the pernicious effects of inflation and the rising tide of credit warning signals, it is now crystal clear that the underlying inflation rate in the United States is over 15% while the dollar declines in value at about the same rate. This double whammy is showing up in our pocketbooks, […]

Tags: borrowers, credit, damages, derivatives, housing, inflation, lenders, mortgage meltdown, refunds, TILA
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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 […]

Tags: Barney Frank, derivatives, Federal reserve, recession, Treasury
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