DATA IRREFUTABLE: PRINCIPAL CORRECTION (REDUCTION) IS THE ONLY WAY OUT

MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE EDITOR’S COMMENT: We’ve been saying here for 4 years that ultimately the ONLY way out of the economic crisis is to use real data and skip the ideology, blame and politics. Nocera, pouring over data accumulated by intensive analysis, states that the data [...]

Goldman analysis: Thumbs Up for Health Insurance Companies

Maybe the fact that it came from Goldman will motivate some people to take a second look at where we are on health care. Goldman likes the two biggest health insurance companies because it says profits are going up due to lack of competition and lack of regulation. Like the foreclosure mess, the fact that [...]

Wall Street Banks Don’t Own Toxic Loans: ABC

NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON/KINDLE!!! This is why it is critically important that (a) you get help in organizing your information (b) getting a forensic analysis, review or even a TILA Audit (c) that you secure a third party expert declaration that puts the the facts in issue and (d) that you aggressively pursue discovery without [...]

Bush Administration Saw It Coming, Was Told to do Something, Did Nothing

AP IMPACT: US diluted loan rules before crash – Gov’t rejected tougher mortgage rules in 2005 WASHINGTON – The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the [...]

Roubini’s 12 Steps to Financial Disaster

Here is Martin Wolf’s column:  Martin Wolf America’s economy risks mother of all meltdowns February 20, 2008, Financial Times Recently, Professor Roubini’s scenarios have been dire enough to make the flesh creep. But his thinking deserves to be taken seriously. He first predicted a US recession in July 2006*. At that time, his view was [...]

Mortgage Meltdown: It’s the People, Stupid. Stop the Defaults!

Perusing Credit Suisse’s latest proposal on Capital Hill, which expands Federal guarantees on mortgages, there is good news and bad news. Good that the severity of the problem is becoming more apparent to those with their fingers on the levers of power. Good also that Credit Suisse, while obviously seeking to protect itself, has at [...]