Tags: Bank of America + CDOs + Chase + CitiGroup + Economy + Federal Reserve + Goldman + investing + Mortgage-backs + Secretary Paulson + Treasury
There seems to be an incorrigible abuse of power underway and hidden from the public by here-to-fore respectable government officials. It is on par with the most brazen corruption of Wall Street. Indeed it dwarfs the crimes of Kenneth Lay at Enron and Bernie Ebbers at World Com. Discovering it is like unearthing ‘deapthroat’ or a mole at home inside the US intelligence community. It is despicable. And the GAO […]
October 9, 2008 - Economy, Politics - 0 Comments
Tags: 2008 Election + Bailout + Fed + Federal Funds + GNMA + Interest Rates + investing + McCain + obama + Palin + Treasury
The financial makets are in turmoil following the $700 billion bailout passed by the US Congress. What happened is that the frank reality of the bailout debate raised the level of awareness about the actual size of the financial system’s problem and indeed raised questions about the amount necessary to fix it– for example, no mention was ever made of the Government […]
October 7, 2008 - Economy, Markets, Politics - 0 Comments
Tags: Bailout + Bailout Plan + BOA + C + Econonmy + Federal Reserve + investing + JPM + Mark to Market + SEC + Treasury Bailout Plan + WFS
For years US banks and their off-balance sheet subsidiaries originated mortgages with no money down, easy to meet, first year payment terms and then sold them to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae which guaranteed them enticing worldwide investors to purchase them in the secondary market. These same banks also structured derivative contracts to […]
October 1, 2008 - Economy, Markets, Politics - 0 Comments
Tags: Bailout + Economy + Fannie Mae + Fed + GNMA + investing + Treasury
Wouldn’t you think that in all the hearings before Congress somehow we would hear mention of the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), the mortgage behemoth that is a direct obligation of the US Government? After all GNMA guarantees only moderate income and Sub-prime loans and these are the mortgages with the highest loan default rates. […]
September 29, 2008 - Economy, Markets, Politics - 0 Comments
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