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Abracadabra

By silveristhenew | Published December 11, 2017

wallstreetexaminer.com / by James Howard Kunstler Via Kunstler / December 11, 2017 And so, as they say in the horror movies, it begins…! The unwinding of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet. Such an esoteric concept! Is there one in ten thousand of the millions of people who sit at desks all day long from sea to shining sea who have a clue […]

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Keep Calm & Carry On

By silveristhenew | Published November 17, 2017

Authored by 720Global's Michael Liebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Before long, we will all begin to find out the extent to which Brexit is a gentle stroll along a smooth path to a land of cake and consumption.” – Mark Carney, Bank of England Governor In 1939, the British Government, through the Ministry of Information, produced a […]

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Housing Bubble 2.0: Home Equity Loans Soar To Highest Level Since 2008

By silveristhenew | Published August 28, 2017

It seems as though the practice of using one’s home as a personal ATM machine is making a ‘yuge’ comeback of late thanks, at least in part, to the same aggressive lending terms and attractive teaser rates that nearly sank the world economy just under a decade ago.  According the Wall Street Journal and Equifax, […]

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Global Stocks Hit Another Record High, Ignore Slowing Chinese Trade

By silveristhenew | Published August 8, 2017

Following a sleepy overnight session, US futures are flat as are markets in Europe, while Asian stocks rose despite overnight trade data from China which unexpectedly missed across the board. As reported last night, Chinese export growth was the slowest since February while Import growth the weakest since Dec 2016, as both missed consensus estimtes. […]

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Fannie, Freddie Would Need $100BN Bailout In New Financial Crisis

By silveristhenew | Published August 7, 2017

While the latest Fed stress test found that all US commercial banks have enough capital to survive even an “adverse” stress scenario, a severe recession in which the VIX hypothetically soars to 70, the two US mortgage giants would not be quite so lucky: according to the results from the annual stress test of Fannie […]

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Meet JK2 Westminster LLC – The Kushner Family Real Estate Subsidiary Preying On Poor People

By silveristhenew | Published May 24, 2017

Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Cox stopped cooking for herself and her son, not wanting food near the sink. A judge allowed her reduced rent for one month. When she moved out soon afterward, Westminster Management sent her a $600 invoice for a new carpet and other repairs. Cox, who is now […]

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Are US Taxpayers Now On The Hook For Risky Wall Street Real-Estate-Backed Bonds?

By silveristhenew | Published May 9, 2017

Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, I’m fairly certain very few of you have heard of broker price opinions, or BPOs, but it’s something I think we should all become aware of given the influence of BPOs in the market for valuing residential real estate securitized bonds. Before we get to that, let’s revisit […]

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Commercial Property Lending Tumbles As Retail / Hotel Originations Plunge

By silveristhenew | Published April 11, 2017

For those of you out there clinging to your commercial REIT stocks for their ‘defensive’ dividend yields while praying that the whole ‘retail implosion’ thing will simply go away, you may want to avert your eyes now.  According to the Mortgage Bankers Association 4Q 2016 commercial real estate loan originations survey, mortgage originations related to […]

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Obamacare Implosion Now? Since Obama Siphoned GSE Dividends To Prop Up, Can Trump Simply Halt 1st Qtr Sweep?

By silveristhenew | Published April 1, 2017

Earlier this month, Harvard Ph.D. Jerome Corsi of InfoWars (@jerome_corsi) and a CPA “who worked for two years for a major U.S. accounting firm as an outside auditor for Freddie Mac,” confirmed a 2012 scheme hatched by the Obama administration to funnel hundreds of billions in dividends from Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prop up the failing Obamacare program – by […]

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Why Is Goldman On A Buying Spree For Delinquent Mortgages

By silveristhenew | Published March 17, 2017

Last year Goldman Sachs entered into a settlement with federal and state governments over its role in packaging and selling toxic mortgage-backed securities in the housing meltdown to unsuspecting buyers while subsequently turning around and shorting those very same securities.  As part of the settlement, Goldman agreed to provide $1.8 billion in homeowner debt relief […]

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