Archives by Tag ' inflation '
Apr 8, 2014

In the financial world we don’t measure just the amount of principal. For example if I increased your mortgage principal by $100,000 and gave you 100 years to pay without interest it would be nearly equivalent to zero principal too (especially factoring in inflation). A reduction in the interest rate has an effect on the […]

Dec 1, 2011

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Jan 5, 2010

In the complaint, the plaintiffs’ lawyers contend that Credit Suisse and Cushman & Wakefield conspired by setting up a Cayman Islands branch to circumvent federal law on real estate appraisals. Credit Suisse knew the resorts would most likely default under the weight of inflated values, which would allow the bank to take ownership as agent […]

Nov 3, 2009

Sometime back in the early Spring and Summer of this year, I had a series of meetings with Arizona officials from the legislative and executive branch right up to the top, an Alabama Class Action firm of some repute, and telephone conversations with the U.S. Attorney, and several other class action attorneys researching “relater” and […]

Oct 28, 2009

if you peal away the apparent differences you find that there is an inherent joinder of interest investors and borrowers: both were deceived and both lost nearly everything they had by purchasing a financial product that was misrepresented — artificially inflated as to quality and value. And both were subject to the same MO — […]

Oct 22, 2009

Wall Street was not responding to legitimate consumer demand, it was creating an artificial demand simply to create mortgage product to feed its securitization machine and generate big fees for itself. Comment from Reader: “MERS and the Pretender Lenders are seeking the courts to credit them with a touchdown despite the obvious fact that they […]

Oct 21, 2009

It is difficult to imagine anything more obvious than splitting the risk taking core model of Wall Street from the risk averse core model of banking. The dilution of Glass-Steagel over the years and its eventual repeal is exactly how we got into this mess. Coupling that with deregulation and non-transparency created a context in […]

Apr 16, 2009

From Jose Semidey: [Editor’s Note: This is a major item that affects the core of both claims and defenses against the lenders. Any party seeking to foreclose is “admitting” that they are the holder in due course on the note or that they are the authorized agent for the HDC. Inflated appraisals greatly affect the […]

Jan 30, 2009

Obama is of course correct in his outrage. Taking hundreds of billions of dollars from the taxpayers to cover the appearances of catastrophic losses and then paying bonuses for good management is over the top by any standards. But neither he nor the media is correct in assuming that that the bonuses were not in […]

Jan 28, 2009

The home you save could be your own In foreclosure crisis, more Americans representing themselves in court By Mike Stuckey Senior news editor msnbc.com updated 4:25 a.m. MT, Wed., Jan. 28, 2009 Luis Molina is not a lawyer and he has never played one on TV. But that didn’t stop him from putting on his […]