Unfortunately, the bill would not only pay institutions handsomely for each modification they do — at $1,000 each, a bounty that could reach $10 billion — but it would also create opportunities for mortgage servicers to profit at the expense of investors who own the loans. Gretchen Morgenson deserves Kudos for her attempts to disclose […]

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April 24, 2009 Tracking Loans Through a Firm That Holds Millions By MIKE McINTIRE Judge Walt Logan had seen enough. As a county judge in Florida, he had 28 cases pending in which an entity called MERS wanted to foreclose on homeowners even though it had never lent them any money. MERS, a tiny data-management […]

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The whole thing is unraveling just we predicted 18 months ago. The largest transfer of wealth in world history is starting. The question is who is going to be behind the curve and who is going to be ahead of it? We are getting daily reports of many cases in which cases that have gone […]

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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 […]

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First From Comments: mers-info-excellent-submission-and-discovery And second: take a look at this site, which is under attack by Goldman Sachs for telling the truth and raising good questions. Goldman Masters of the Unvierse are going to try to shut it down. www.goldmansachs666.com

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The article below by Andrew Rosenfield is an excellent summary of the problems and contradictions facing the Obama administration. But it misses the same point that everyone has failed to ask about. If the intent was to sell the loans to investors and Wall Street took money for that sale, then we must assume that […]

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From M Solimon: {Editor’s Note: Lots more here than meets the eye. You want to know what ledger entries were made by each entity and by what individuals and under whose supervision or instructions the entry was made. Besides being able to trace the holder in due course you will probably eliminate most of their […]

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“The way mortgages are bundled and resold, it can be enormously time-consuming just trying to determine what company holds the loan on a property thought to be in foreclosure.” Susan Saulny of the NY Times gets credit for her story on the front page today. It points out what we have been saying here all […]

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Many thanks to Alan Baron who has been staying on top of the research. Rand Corporation v Yer Song Moua: Manisy Moua, John Doe, Mary Roe, United States Court of Appeals Filed March 20, 2009. 8th-cir-tila-rand-march-20-2009 Phoenix, Az March 25, 2009. by Neil Garfield. Despite nearly heroic efforts by the banking industry to avoid an […]

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The Big Takeover The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution MATT TAIBBI Posted Mar 19, 2009 12:49 PM ADVERTISEMENT It’s over — we’re officially, royally fucked. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened […]

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