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WOW a recession we did not see this coming. And the housing secondary mortgage is to blame. Why would so many Americans have to look to the secondary mortgage market to get a loan? These loans were the exact opposite of what the people who had to get them should have. With the current credit system banks eliminate so many people from the housing market so people took out variable interest loans. If the idea is to have people own their homes and these people are working and they can afford the payments the rate should have been fixed at the low rates that was offered to other customers. The credit system we have and the banks have sent us into a spin. Now they are crying because this secondary that they created is falling apart. Jobs have not kept up to inflation for years. How long can a country deplete their job market by sending it to other countries where the labor rate is low. When you deplete this section of income only the stock market gains not the people. Again after you get mean and lean with your employee pay to compete with low labor in other countries who is going to buy the products here anyway. Again greed has lost the economy. The same thing happened when companies went lean and did lay offs. It tanked the economy after a few years, remember chain saw Al. This is just another suck on the people of America buy our great benefactors corp. It would be great for them if you had slum people who would work for nothing and they could reap the profits. Something like having small Mexico’s to draw your profits from. Why do you think politicians wrestle with illegal immigration. A nice have, and have not, society. And no economist sees this ahead of time?

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  • curmudgeon said on Jan 21, 2008....
    Interesting point, except that we seem to have forgotten that the hot housing market of a few years ago created a wave of people looking to use houses as investment tools, not as long-term residences. Many people were looking to buy homes and turn them around rapidly at a tidy profit. The variable interest loans were tools thsat could accommodate this purpose.
     
    But of course very few studied the length of the average house sale negotiation and closing, and therefore did not time their purchase-sale plan against that of the variable loans. First-time buyers didn't look at their financial position two years out and here we are.
     
    It's too bad that people who could not afford these kinds of loans bought into them, but buying and selling are two-way streets.
     
    We've forgotten about this trend completely and have chosen to blame "predatory lenders" while not criticizing people who were looking to make a quick buck and got caught.
     
    Just like the tech bust of the 1990s, and the demise of many so-called "day traders", the market tumbles when hordes of people invest without looking at their fundamental economic positions or even considering the deals they enter. Like lemmings, they throw money at whatever the business pundits tell them to and then blame someone else when the hard times inevitably hit.
     
    It is the individual's choice to save, consume and carefully consider the terms of loans and investments they enter. It is also the institution's choice to buy into pooled high-risk loans without considering the risk.
     
    Everyone suffers when people invest with a herd mentality. Blaming someone else doesn't help us learn the simplest and most ancient lesson in business: Caveat Emptor!
  • hottips4u said on Jan 21, 2008....
    The way I see it, the wealthy made those flip-over-properties in an already overpriced market available to contractors from a favored list of those to do business with (those that will play the game).

    Those then were passed on to those willing to sign an attractive contract to a more than willing market of low to moderate income families.  The banking industry knew exactly what it was doing prior to doing it with full intent of selling their investments (loans) off to foreign investors before defaults were on the horizon ; allowing them to be bundled and just as fraudulently marketed overseas at a fantastic profit to corp America.  However,

    The onslaught of foreclosures is of no circumstance. What is of concern to me is that those foreign markets now hold titles to a lot of American property.  American families are to suffer, nor any  corp investors domestic or foreign.

    Well planned and executed by corp America (Conservative Republican) w/ a dash of insider bundle trading taking place even as we now sit before our monitors.

    This administration has whored out the American worker and his family to corp America who flip millions of homes bundled and delivered to foreign markets, now owners.  Terroristic ?  Clearly its as devastating to domestic investors and a boon to a foreign country.

    You don't beat American Forces by attacking us on our shores,  you buy it, and then,...... you simply foreclose on America.  Markets tumble, the dollar cries, and American families, except the wealthiest, suffer the brunt .  Its an attack upon the very fabric of America, its working class citizens.

    Just another perspective, especially with the administration we currently and unfortunately have in office here in America.

    Jessi.
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