– If At First You Fail Miserably & Blow Up The Financial System, Do It Again! (ZeroHedge, Dec 9, 2014):
Here we go again! Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have now officially approved 3% down payment mortgages. Having government entities provide low down payment mortgages to people who can’t afford to buy a house is always a good move. Keynesians like Krugman approve wholeheartedly. The housing market will get a nice boost and the working taxpayers will fund the bad debt through Fannie and Freddie. You own Fannie and Freddie. Everyone wins. In case you forgot, the closing costs to sell a house are usually 8% of the home price. So these home buyers are immediately 5% underwater when they move in… “Sometimes I can’t believe I live in a world this f##ked up. And no one notices and no one cares.”
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It is too late. It won’t happen again because there is no money left.
This behavior is the action of desperation………and it won’t work this time.
None of the old crappy games are going to hold.
The US is finished for reasons I have stated fully in other posts.
It is too late boys, play the music, but the ship is going down.