Tuesday
Aug022011
DEM Party Supports Institutionalized Looting By Banks, Obama Raises MORE From Wall St., EU Says No Bailout For Italy & Spain, Elizabeth Warren Run For President? (LINKS)
Stories from around the web this morning.
- Document Proves DEM Party Supports Institutionalized Looting by Banks - Yves Smith
- Exactly Who Are The Budget Extremists? - Great Read (Burning Platform)
- Europe's biggest hedge fund, has sold its entire $850m position in Goldman Sachs
- 10 signs the double-dip recession has begun
- Obama raising even MORE cash from Wall Street than in 2008
- Commodities casino makes losers of us all - 'Watch Out' says Gary Shilling
- U.S. consumer spending falls in June - More Economic Weakness
- Treasurys hold solid gains after weak U.S. data
- Europe NOT considering rescue plans for Italy, Spain
- Will Cyprus Be The Straw That Breaks The EU?
- Strangest Speeding Ticket EVER Almost Results In Missle Launch
- Should Elizabeth Warren Run for President? - Yves Smith
Reader Comments (14)
I’ve got nothing against postal workers. But I do have a bone to pick with their union (American Postal Workers Union, "APWU"). Have you seen the APWU ads on TV and print lately? I think the ads are a lie.
http://brucekrasting.blogspot.com/2011/07/going-postal.html
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15927
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15928
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/21/baracks-wall-street-problem-is-now-americas/
What Happens When the US Banks Take a Hit On Their Senior-most Assets? Pt 2
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/what-happens-when-us-banks-take-hit-their-senior-most-assets-pt-2
No debt ceiling for the Federal Reserve and too big to fail banks – The double standard of American banking and opaque Federal Reserve policy.
http://www.mybudget360.com/no-debt-ceiling-for-federal-reserve-double-standard-american-banking-fiscal-financial-policy/
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Tropos Corporation of America
Are ya’ll familiar with this scandal (?) Supposedly the Fed stole $700 billion from these people.
http://goldtent.org/?p=79683
http://www.strategemgroup.ca/17uldbRYF5lsr5S60Y5q/Fed%20Letter%20and%20%20Obama%20letter%20attachments.pdf
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/editorials/why-did-canada-border-services-strip-search-grandma/article2113470/
It saves them money and helps to eliminate excess housing inventory, but is it really good for the economy?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/07/why-are-banks-bulldozing-foreclosures/242784/
http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/adm-mike-mullen-demands-that-a
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/08/super-congress-final-nail-in-coffin-of.html
I've seen the Tropos story. I think it's a fraud. Read this forum for more.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1270680/pg1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91QEIenOeY0
Is Fannie bailing out the banks?
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/03/is-fannie-bailing-out-the-banks/
Unlimited credit for GSEs seen as backdoor bailout
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/05/us-usa-housing-bailout-idUSTRE6044YU20100105
Now having said that have you ever looked through foreclosed homes? The people have seriously trashed many of them and it is hard to fathom what pigs some people are most of them were not worth buying they needed so much work, two wrongs don't make a right. So if nothing else in the making lemonade sense as a homeowner with no mortgage and since I am forced to help pay for all this because of the GSE's even though we had no part in any of it at least getting rid of some of them will help the value of the homes people who did the right thing own.
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