Apr 28 2009

California Loan Modification Scams: Kicking the Financial Can Down the Road. SB 1137 and SBX2 7. Mortgage Cram-Downs Stripped from Rescue Bill. Loan Mods that make your Payment go up.

In another chess move to reward banks and fleece the American public, cram-down legislation was stripped out of the new rescue bill.  This is significant since this was one of the keystones in the new housing agenda.  Yet the banking oligarchy wasn’t pleased with this legislation and applied pressure via lobbying to get this piece […]

Apr 26 2009

20,000 Americans Lose Their Job Each day but we Still Bailout Wall Street and Banks: 4 Charts Highlighting this Historical Financial Crisis. GDP, Inflation, Industrial Production, and Excess Reserves.

Four banks and one credit institution failed on Friday.  This is now becoming a common Friday ritual.  On February 13 four banks were also taken over by the FDIC.  Multiple bank failures on one day are now growing in size.  Yet the FDIC is quickly blazing through their insurance fund and soon, the taxpayer is […]

Apr 7 2009

Credit card companies shut down 8 million credit card accounts in February while accepting more Bailout Credit Cards from the U.S. Treasury. 400 Million Credit Card Accounts still open.

Many American households have been strapped for money for many years.  The benefit of having a debt bubble is the ability to cover up troubling economic trends and drown out any noise while people feed at the bubble.  During this time, credit was easily accessible and many families used credit cards as a bridge loan […]

Mar 3 2009

Gas Prices going up and Bailing out a Hedge Fund: Why the Average American is Getting Bailout Fatigue. TALF a bailout for Corporations under guise of Lending for Average Americans.

Most Americans are having a challenging time digesting the bitter fruit of all the financial news coming from Wall Street and D.C.  It is hard for many to wrap their brains around what is going on.  In fact, today Ben Bernanke just stated that AIG was operating like a hedge fund.  Which of course begs […]

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