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- ALL IS WELL!!! (The Burning Platform, Feb 6, 2013)

Tags: Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Cars, Corruption, Economy, Fannie Mae, Fed, Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac, GDP, Global News, Government, Mortgage crisis, Mortgages, Obama administration, Politics, Society, U.S., Unemployment

- Marc Faber: “Paul Krugman Should Go And Live In North Korea” (ZeroHedge, Dec 13, 2012):

If there is one thing better than Marc Faber providing a free, must-watch (and listen) 50 minute lecture on virtually everything that has transpired in the end days of modern capitalism, starting with who caused it, adjustable rate mortgages, leverage, why did the Fed let Lehman fail, why was AIG bailed out, quantitative easing, Operation Twist, where the interest on the debt is going, which bubbles he is most concerned about, a discussion of gold and silver, and culminating with his views on a world reserve currency, is him saying the following: “The views of the Keynesians like Mr. Krugman is that the fiscal deficits are far too small. One of the problems of the crisis is that it was caused by government intervention with fiscal and monetary measures. Now they tells us we didn’t intervene enough. If they really believe that they should go and live in North Korea where you have a communist system. There the government intervenes into every aspect of the economy. And look at the economic performance of North Korea.” Priceless.

50 minutes of Faberian bliss:

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Tags: AIG, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Bonds, Bubble, Collapse, Debt, Dollar, Economy, Fannie Mae, Fed, Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac, Global News, Government, Lehman Brothers, LTCM, Marc Faber, Mortgage crisis, Mortgages, Operation Twist, Paul Krugman, Politics, Quantitative Easing, Stock Market, U.S.

YouTube Added: 02.08.2012

Tags: 1984, 9/11, Agenda 21, Arizona, Banking, Big Brother, Bilderberg, Bill of Rights, Climate Change, CO2, Constitution, Corporate Media, DHS, Dictatorship, Economy, Education, Fascism, Fed, Federal Reserve, George Orwell, Global News, Global Warming, Government, HAARP, Homeland Security, Hurricane Katrina, Janet Napolitano, Law, Leuren Moret, Mind-Control, Mortgage crisis, Mortgages, NEW ORLEANS, New World Order, Police State, Politics, RFID, Science, Smart Meters, Society, Students, Technology, Terrorism, Treason, U.S.

- The Last Housing Crash Is Not Even Over But Bernanke Is Already Setting The Stage For The Next One (Activist Post, Oct 3, 2012):

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is determined to push mortgage rates to record low levels and he is encouraging the banks that the Fed regulates to make home loans more freely. Wait a second – isn’t that exactly what caused the last housing bubble?

After 9/11, the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates and this caused mortgage rates to steadily fall. Financial institutions were urged to help “expand home ownership” in America, and many of them started making home loans to people who never, ever should have gotten home loans. When mortgage rates started to go back up, millions of families with adjustable rate mortgages discovered that they could not make their monthly payments. Mortgage delinquencies absolutely soared and large numbers of mortgage-backed securities suddenly turned into garbage.

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Tags: Economy, Fed, Federal Reserve, Global News, Mortgage crisis, Mortgages, Quantitative Easing, Real Estate

- The Truth About How The Fed Has Destroyed The Housing Market (ZeroHedge, Aug 16, 2012):

When observing the trends in the housing market, one has two choices: i) listen to the bulls who keep repeating that “housing has bottomed”, a false mantra which has been repeated every single year for the past four, or ii) look at the facts. We touched briefly on the facts earlier today when we presented the latest housing starts data:construction of single family residences remains 46 percent below the long-term trend; the more volatile multifamily houses is 15 percent below trend and demand for new homes 47 percent below. This is indicative of reluctance by households to make long-term investments due to fear of another downturn in housing prices. Bloomberg summarizes this succinctly: “This historically weak demand for new homes is inhibiting the recovery of demand for construction workers as well, about 2.3 million of whom remain without work.” But the best visual representation of the housing “non-bottom” comes courtesy of the following chart of homes in negative or near-negative equity, which via Bloomberg Brief, is soared in Q4, and is now back to Q1 2010 level at over 13.5 million. What this means is that the foreclosure backlog and the shadow inventory of houses on the market could be as large as 13.5 million in the future, which translates into one simple word: supply.

Here is Bloomberg’s Joseph Brusuelas on this topic:

Approximately 13.5 million households hold negative or near-negative equity positions on their mortgages. Many of them will likely lose  those homes to foreclosures, which are again on the rise. At best, an increase in foreclosures will constrain a recovery in prices; at worst, a flood of inventory to market will put further downward pressure on prices.

In other words it is Bloomberg, not us, coming up with the perfectly logical idea that a number as large as the total number of underwater mortgages may and will end up on the market as foreclosures, which in turn will clog up the market clearance piping for years, if not decades to come.

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Tags: Economy, Fed, Federal Reserve, Foreclosures, Global News, Government, Housing market, Mortgage crisis, Mortgages, Politics, Society, U.S.

YouTube Added: 31.07.2012

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In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the virtual virtual economy getting hit by a dustbowl and there are no gully washers or toad stranglers on the horizon to bring reliefe; meanwhile out in the virtual real economy it’s all the bath-salts and beer you can drink and scalps for sale in California as eminent domain falls into the hands of private bankers. In the second half, Max interviews Teri Buhl about the possibility of San Bernardino county using eminent domain to seize mortgages from one set of rich private investors to give them to another set of rich private investors.

Tags: Banking, Crime, Economy, Fraud, Global News, Libor, Max Keiser, Mortgage crisis, Mortgages, Society, U.S.

YouTube Added: 13.06.2012

Tags: Banking, Barack Obama, Bush administration, Congress, Debt, Economy, Fannie Mae, Financial Crisis, Freddie Mac, George Bush, Global News, Government, Henry Paulson, Mortgage crisis, Mortgages, Obama administration, Politics, TARP, U.S., Wells Fargo

- Eminent-Domain ‘Transfer Of Wealth’-Program Challenges Remain (ZeroHedge, July 10, 2012)

Tags: Banking, Barclays, Global News, Government, Mortgage crisis, Mortgages, Politics, Society, U.S.

- California Cities Considering (Legal?) Theft of Private Property (ZeroHedge, July 7, 2012):

All Americans should be very, very alarmed. Today’s Wall Street Journal ran a front page story on a proposal put forth by Mortgage Resolution Partners LLC as a ‘solution’ to the problem of underwater mortgages. When you read their PowerPoint presentation for comprehension it is clearly threatening to all commonly perceived rights of private property and free will.

Here is their summary slide describing the program… Continue reading »

Tags: Banking, Economy, Global News, Government, Mortgage crisis, Mortgages, Politics, U.S.

- “Your EBT Card Has Been Denied”: 700,000 Are About To Lose Their Extended Jobless Claims Benefits (ZeroHedge, April 20, 2012):

While virtually everyone has opined on the topic of the massive fiscal “cliff” set to take place on January 1, 2013, which could crush US GDP unless American politicians manage to find a way to end their acrimonious ways, most forget that a far more tangible cliff is set to take place much sooner, specifically over the next several months, as those currently collecting handouts from the government in the form of extended unemployment benefits (i.e., those who have been out of a job for a year) are about to get as angry as Germants pre-funding TARGET3, once the free money stops. Goldman explains why: “First, more than 150,000 workers per month exhaust their allowed benefits. Second, recently legislated thresholds will reduce benefit eligibility in many states with below-average unemployment rates beginning in June. Third, apart from legislative changes, labor market improvement in some states has taken the state-level unemployment rate below eligibility thresholds, with many states looking at likely expiration of one or more tiers of benefits around mid-year.” In other words, unlike the bulk of other transfer payment programs (read government subsides) which could be extended with the flick of a switch at the end of the year following the now traditional 1+ month congressional theatrical impasse, extended claims can not. The net result: by June some 700,000 people who are currently collecting benefits will lose everything. It seems that the old faithful EBT card is about to be denied- and while one can assume that extended benefits are not a core source of marginal aspirational product (read AAPL) sales, we all know the truth. Is the time finally coming to short the one company that is and has always been the primary beneficiary of government transfer payment largesse? Because if AAPL’s recent shakiness has been, by some, attributed to the expiration of EBTs, what will happen when Americans are again forced to pay their mortgages? Continue reading »

Tags: Collapse, Economy, GDP, Global News, Government, Mortgage crisis, Mortgages, Politics, Society, U.S.