Archives by Tag ' mortgage meltdown '
Nov 17, 2009

Editor’s Note: In this article you have the nub of the problem for the investors, for the foreclosers, for the pretender lenders. What did the taxpayer actually pay for and what did they get for it? And if the money all went to pay off credit default swaps at 100 cents on the dollar then […]

Nov 14, 2009

And probably people “of the cloth” from all denominations. We are a nation of faith. Jesus angrily drove the money lenders out of the temple. How can we stand by and allow the borrowers to be driven out of their homes? The fact is most of these victims were hunted down like a foxhunt, with […]

Nov 4, 2009

By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers Greg Gordon, Mcclatchy Newspapers Mon Nov 2, 6:00 am ET SAN JOSE, Calif. — When California wildfires ruined their jewelry business, Tony Becker and his wife fell months behind on their mortgage payments and experienced firsthand the perils of subprime mortgages. The couple wound up in a desperate, six-year fight […]

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 24, 2009

LIVINGLIES NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE! SIGN UP FOR CLEARWATER, FLORIDA SEMINAR NOW So called “auditors” will miss the fact that there are two yield spread premiums that were not disclosed to either the homeowner or the investor. Failure to account for the movement of money through the securitization chain and failure to account for […]

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 […]

Oct 20, 2009

Thanks to Deontos: Editor’s Note: The logic is simple, basic and the law is old, accepted and “black letter.” No new law is needed to overturn all the foreclosures since 2001, no fancy footwork is required to throw the bums out of court and sue them for the damage they created when they filed false […]

Oct 19, 2009

Editor’s Note: From Home, to Car to Shelter. It’s a common story and a tragedy. But if that is a tragedy then where is the outrage when we add the component that she was probably wrongly dispossessed, that she probably still owns her house and that if she had proper legal representation in a court […]

Oct 14, 2009

First, you must realize that they are not “Law” with a capital “L”. Other jurisdictions could return opinions that are completely the opposite of the ones we have seen recently. I consider that unlikely. The reasoning is exactly what I have been saying for 2 years when I predicted the title issues, the enforcement issues, […]