May 2 2009

FDIC Insures $4.7 Trillion in Deposits with a $13.6 Billion Deposit Insurance Fund. This is Like Going into a Hurricane with a 99 Cent Store Umbrella.

On Friday, three banks failed and the FDIC took them over.  Now this isn’t the big news necessarily.  What it significant is that one of the banks taken over was Silverton Bank of Atlanta, Georgia.  Silverton bank has $4.1 billion in assets and will cost the FDIC $1.3 billion from their dwindling insurance fund.  This […]

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 22 2009

10 Charts Showing a Prolonged Global Recession: Credit Markets, Housing, and Equity Markets point to Lengthy Economic Contraction.

The IMF came out with a global report on the economy in October of 2008.  Since that time, the global economy has deteriorated even further and the IMF has issued another report.  I went ahead and looked at both documents and from what is presented, there is very little reason to believe we will see […]

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