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Think Motown is the only major U.S. city in a boatload of financial trouble? Think again. By Stephen Moore
“Detroit’s bankruptcy filing sent shivers down the spine of municipal bondholders, government employees, and big-city urban residents all over the country. That’s because many of the 61 largest U.S. cities are plagued with the same kinds of retirement legacy costs that sent Detroit into Chapter 9 bankruptcy this summer. Continue reading
Municipal workers could be robbed of pension funds to pay big banks for payments due on interest rate swaps.
The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template originated by the G20’s Financial Stability Board in 2011, which exploded on the scene in Cyprus in 2013 and is now becoming the model globally. In Cyprus, the depositors were “bailed in” (stripped of a major portion of their deposits) to re-capitalize the banks. In Detroit, it is the municipal workers who are being bailed in, stripped of a major portion of their pensions to save the banks.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) chairman serves at the pleasure of the President of the United States. During the financial crisis of 2008, Sheila Bair was chairman of the FDIC and was a member of a very small club: competent crisis-era financial regulators. Bair was one of the primary policymakers in Washington, DC during the 2007–2009 financial force majeure.
It was during that time many banks and pretender lenders failed, including IndyMac Bank, FSB and Washington Mutual aka “WaMu”. Deals were contrived between banks by the FDIC as it stepped in as receiver to peel off assets making Master Purchasing Agreements between parties.
In some cases, like IndyMac and WaMu, these deals were struck before a bank could seek reorganization under bankruptcy protection. These “deals” included sealing documents that it appears pertain to sale agreements and the operations of the banks that probably should have led to a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation – rather than covering up the potential for fraud under court seal of, as it appears, the “Unassigned Records” as in the case of IndyMac. Continue reading
STOCKTON, CA – BANKRUPT!
If you don’t think the Wall Street corruption and securities fraud, including mortgage-backed securities, isn’t affecting everyone – think again. Stockton, California has succumbed to bankruptcy due in large part to bad securities investments.
Look out California public employee retirees for the next Cyprus-like haircuts. Continue reading
On February 14, 2013, New Century Mortgage Liquidating Trust Trustee, Alan M. Jacobs motioned the court to allow him to destroy and abandon “certain” Mortgage Loan and Business files (Order Authorizing the Immediate Abandonment and Destruction of Certain Mortgage Loan Files and Non-Mortgage Loan Business Files). It is so immediate that respondents have only until February 28, 2013 to answer! Click here for the Destruction of Files Motion. Continue reading
Via Crooks & Liars, the Daily Kos, a story that reads like a horror movie script. A Hostess Employee Tells All About CEO Gutting Pensions, Pay Scales.
Amazingly, Washington did not offer Hostess a bailout. This discriminatory policy may be a constitutional violation — denial of equal protection of the laws. Since the onset of the financial crisis, the government has decided that some systemically important financial institutions are too big to fail. Why, any fair-minded person will ask, was Hostess not TBTF? How can the American government let an 82-year-old brand can die?
Well first, there is the apparently failed oversight “accounting error”:
Over-Leveraged Acquisitions, Mergers, and Bad Wall Street Investments Killed Twinkies – Not the Unions. Another Death by a Hedge fund.
If it wasn’t obvious after the Wisconsin tirade of union abuse that big business wants to bust all unions – it certainly should be now. Looking at any company’s or municipality’s financial debacle you will usually find a link to bad Wall Street advice or investments. This is certainly true for Hostess Brands.
Founded in 1930 by Ralph L. Nafziger, the sad story of the demise of Hostess Brands, formerly known as Interstate Bakeries Corporation, and its bankruptcies stem from more recent bad management and investment decisions which created the loss of its employee pension funds – a problem that our government fails miserably to protect and properly regulate. Continue reading
The new word in the securities fraud cover-up banter is “ministerial” – and so very far from the truth.
On April 2, 2007, New Century Financial Corporation and its related entities filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware and is currently heard and administered by the Honorable Kevin J. Carey.
With the filing of bankruptcy, New Century took down a list of affiliate / entities including New Century Mortgage Corporation, Home123 Corporation, New Century Mortgage Ventures, Midwest Home Mortgage, among a host of others. New Century was one of the Continue reading
As most of us are aware – it’s about time that MERSCORP, Inc. became the thrust of the AG’s investigations. It’s also about time that JUDGES started reading up on the lawsuits against MERSCORP, Inc. and it’s “straw man” empty shell entity Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. and quit giving them a free ride. STOP making BAD law thinking you are protecting your pension and retirement funds – THEY ARE GONE!
If there is one MUST WATCH interview for all Legislators, lawyers and JUDGES – it’s the MADDOW – BIDEN interview on MERSCORP, Inc. CLICK HERE and pass it along to your friends on the judiciary committees and the Judges on the bench.
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The Daily Capitalist
Stockman On Budget And Downgrade
By Jeff Harding August 11th, 2011
This is an interview of David Stockman on Bloomberg Radio today by Kathleen Hayes. David goes into the budget crisis and the downgrade. As usual he pulls no punches. “We have a far worse fiscal situation….by 2012, 2013, 2014… the deficit situation is going to be dramatically worse and our ability to cope will be almost non-existent….”
This is an excellent interview on Bloomberg Radio which can be heard Continue reading
Deadly Clear 