Money Is A Form Of Social Control And Most Of Us Spend Our Entire Lives Trapped In An Endless Cycle of Debt That We Never Escape Until We Die, Those That Own Our Debts Keep Getting Richer!

by Michael

Is America really “the land of the free”?  Most people think of money as simply a medium of exchange that makes economic transactions more convenient, but the truth is that it is much more than that.  Money is also a form of social control.  Just think about it.  What did you do this morning?  Well, if you are like most Americans, you either got up and went to work [...]

Why We Are On The Verge Of Another Subprime Crisis

UPDATE: Sept 5th

Subprime Auto Loans Accelerating (Again)

It is remarkable that we greedy ignorant short-term-focused human beings never seem to learn that driving forward and looking in the rear-view mirror can only end in disaster. Forget ‘dancing while the music plays’ or other such ‘defenses’ of herd ignorance, the most recent data regarding Auto Loans is simply mind-blowing:

Subprime borrowers received 56.46 percent of loans on used cars in the quarter, up from [...]

Former NY Governor: “LIBOR is huge…This is about as big as it gets in the financial world. [LIBOR] goes to the heart of every piece of debt that’s issued to consumers — your auto loan, your credit card debt.”

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The LIBOR scandal that has engulfed London’s financial and political elites is entering its third week and picking up steam on this side of the Atlantic.

Among the latest developments:

The NY Times reports the Justice Department’s criminal division is “building cases against several financial institutions and their employees.”
State Attorneys General in New York and Connecticut are investigating whether states incurred losses because of LIBOR manipulation which “could lead to a wider [...]

ECB Officially Announces Easing Of Collateral Rules, Confirms Europe Has Run Out Of Assets

 

The headline which paradoxically ramped stocks yesterday, is back:

ECB DECIDED ON ADDL MEASURES TO IMPROVE BANKING SECTOR ACCESS
ECB DECIDE TO REDUCE RATING THRESHOLD FOR SOME ABS
ECB SAYS AUTO-LOAN ABS WILL BE ELIGIBLE
ECB SAYS IT WILL APPLY 16% HAIRCUT TO A RATED ABS COLLATERAL
ECB TO BROADEN SCOPE OF MEASURES INTRODUCED DEC. 8, 2011
ECB SAYS BBB-RATED RMBS FACE 26% HAIRCUT
ECB SAYS RMBS OF AT LEAST BBB MAY BE ELIGIBLE
ECB SAYS BBB-RATED CMBS [...]

Our entire economy has become based on credit: Do you need a car? Just get an auto loan. Do you need a house? Just get a mortgage. Do you need to fill up your house with stuff? Just get a credit card. Do you need an education? Just get a student loan.

Debt Slavery: 30 Facts About Debt In America That Will Blow Your Mind

by Michael

When most people think about America’s debt problem, they think of the debt of the federal government.  But that is only part of the story.  The sad truth is that debt slavery has become a way of life for tens of millions of American families.  Over the past several decades, most Americans have willingly allowed themselves to become [...]

Here is a complete list of the the ECB’s eligible assets which can be collateralized for loans.

http://www.ecb.int/paym/coll/assets/html/dla/EA/ea_all_111227.txt

The list is extensive yet some of the issuers are interesting. Many MBS issuers have a large percentage of their portfolios in ARM’s. For example, the Siena Mortgages 10-7 S.r.l. has 91.88% in ARM’s. And there are many, many more which are similar. Also there are many auto loan notes as well as a Belgian chocolate manufacturer.

Societe Generale: ‘No matter how low interest rates go, many U.S. mortgage holders with underwater mortgages are no longer eligible for refinancing’

More than a quarter of all U.S. mortgages remain underwater, and that’s having a damaging impact on the U.S. consumer recovery, according to Societe Generale.

The latest CoreLogic data shows that 27.7% of mortgages are underwater. And no matter how low interest rates go, many U.S. mortgage holders with underwater mortgages are no longer eligible for refinancing, according to Societe Generale. This, along with a rise [...]

QE2 is indeed criminal. But there’s something that’s even more criminal, and that’s the structure of the Federal Reserve itself and its access to public funds.

by enron_economy

You see, the public simply doesn’t understand that the big U.S. banks ARE the Fed. I cannot stress the importance of this enough. If you look at the board of directors http://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinf…
you’ll find the following:

* JPMorgan Chase & Co. — DISTRICT 2 – NEW YORK
Class A
* Bank of America Oregon, N.A. — PORTLAND BRANCH
* Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. — SEATTLE BRANCH

There are many more banks that comprise [...]