Archives by Tag ' securitization '
Feb 1, 2010

Editor’s Note: 180787_86_opinion Lehman My reading of this report is that the underlying principle of the ADDITION of conditions and co-obligors changed the homeowner’s note from being negotiable to non-negotiable. This decision doesn’t say that but the underlying reasoning leads me to believe that we are on the precipice of a paradigm shift in the way […]

Jan 22, 2010

“Many economists and mortgage experts have concluded that banks must ultimately forgive loan balances to restore equity to underwater borrowers. Otherwise, growing numbers will walk away from their homes and accept foreclosure rather than make payments on properties in which they no longer own a stake.” Editor’s Comments and Notes: The Obama Administration has finally […]

Jan 21, 2010

Editor’s Comment: Finally! The president has now played out the Geithner-Summers scenario and seen the results — a large middle finger raised in the air from an arrogant bunch of people who are tone deaf to the needs of the nation and the world. This decision brings us into line with the rest of the […]

Jan 10, 2010

“Americans must be told the full story of how Wall Street gamed and inflated the housing bubble, made out like bandits, and then left millions of households in ruin. Without that reckoning, there will be no public clamor for serious reform of a financial system that was as cunningly breached as airline security at the […]

Jan 9, 2010

Editor’s Note: Baltimore decided to take on one of the worst “Club 100” players in the mortgage meltdown, Wells Fargo. The thrust of their argument is that Wells Fargo targeted poor people and made a bad situation worse, causing collateral damage all over the city. Baltimore will now file a narrower amended complaint, but the […]

Jan 7, 2010

Thanks to Gator Bradshaw Editor’s Comment: Like I said, the investors and the homeowners have a lot of interests in common. When they finally get together and compare notes, they find a giant donut hole where assets or money were supposed to be. The amount of theft or undisclosed fees and profits staggers the imagination. […]

Jan 2, 2010

No governmental relief is in sight for homeowners except in isolated instances of community action together with publicity from the media. State and federal governments continue to sink deeper into debt, cutting social and necessary services while avoiding the elephant in the living room: the trillions of dollars owed and collectible in taxes, recording fees, […]

Dec 30, 2009

I have received a number of reports that “outsource providers” are servicing the foreclosers by creating color copies of documents and submitting them as originals. One report is that the “original” was examined at the courthouse and found to be a printout from a very good color printer. It’s a neat trick and one that […]

Dec 30, 2009

Remember that $700 billion in TARP? It was dwarfed by other government programs including one from the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve went from a non-existent player in the mortgage backed security market a year ago to owning $904 billion of the mortgage backed securities today. But we don’t seem to be getting or seeing […]

Dec 25, 2009

The Wall Street Journal has adopted the Murdoch brand of “news” reporting and with it, an attack on the basic principles of law that have been in place for hundreds of years. As you can see from the article below they acknowledge that more and more Judges are finding flaws in the foreclosure scheme, but […]