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Bunning Statement on Bernanke: ‘You Are the Definition of a Moral Hazard’ | Real Time Economics – WSJ

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Senator Jim Bunning smokes Ben Bernanke:

Instead of taking that money and lending to consumers and cleaning up their balance sheets, the banks started to pocket record profits and pay out billions of dollars in bonuses. Because you bowed to pressure from the banks and refused to resolve them or force them to clean up their balance sheets and clean out the management, you have created zombie banks that are only enriching their traders and executives.

…you put the printing presses into overdrive to fund the government’s spending and hand out cheap money to your masters on Wall Street, which they use to rake in record profits while ordinary Americans and small businesses can’t even get loans for their everyday needs.

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A more complete, yet less satisfying description of the hearing can be read here.

Judge blasts bad bank, erases 525G debt | NYPOST.com

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The lucky winner!

The government has been backing up to the back doors of these institutions, unloading truckloads of cash. Many have used the funds to purchase other banks or shore up their balance sheets; few have passed any relief to their customers.  The backlash against them has primarily been debt repudiation (bankruptcy and foreclosure) and now, debt cancellation.

Spinner excoriated OneWest for repeatedly refusing to work out a deal, for misleading him about the dollar amounts at stake in the case, and for its treatment of the couple over months of hearings.

OneWest’s conduct was “inequitable, unconscionable, vexatious and opprobrious,” Spinner wrote.

He canceled the debt because the bank “must be appropriately sanctioned so as to deter it from imposing further mortifying abuse against [the couple].”

The bank is involved in a similar case in California, where it’s trying to foreclose on an 89-year-old woman, despite two court orders telling it to stop.

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S.B.A. Softens New Good-Will Rules | NYTimes.com

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We just ran across this issue with one of our clients, so I thought this would be good information to pass along. Note that the ‘good will’ limitation was $250,000 or 50% before, so this is a big policy change.

As always, all SBA deals are done according to individual bank policies so it remains to be seen if this change will actually help someone.

Effective Oct. 1, good will and other intangible assets can amount to up to $500,000, with no limit on the percentage of the loan. When intangibles exceed $500,000, the S.B.A. will recommend that banks limit the S.B.A.-backed loan to 75 percent of the purchase price.

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The Great American Bubble Machine | Rolling Stone

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Same As It Ever Was.
Same As It Ever Was.

Another post on our blog, ‘The End’ by Michael Lewis, is  prologue for this piece. It’s instructive and frightening. Especially when you take in to account the number of individuals setting American financial policy that have come from Goldman Sachs.

The Great American Bubble Machine

From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and they’re about to do it again

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Time Magazine’s Justin Fox: “Some Financial Market Conspiracies Are Real” | zero hedge

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If you’ve swallowed the blue pill, this article will be too strong:

Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge blew the whistle on Goldman’s high-frequency trading and other frontrunning activities, and has also been called a conspiracy theorist.

PhD economist, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and former Wall Street Journal editor Paul Craig Roberts says that the government and mainstream media are lying to the American public about how bad the economic situation really is.

PhD economist Dean Baker said in February that the true purpose of the bank rescues is “a massive redistribution of wealth to the bank shareholders and their top executives”.

PhD economist Michael Hudson says that the financial “parasites” have killed the American economy, and they are “sucking as much money out” as they can before “jumping ship”.

PhD economist Michel Chossudovsky says that the giant banks which received the most bailout money also finance a portion of the government’s debt, and are exercising their power as creditors to buy public assets for a song and to impose IMF-style austerity measures on the U.S. government.

If you want to understand so you can make a way for you and your loved ones read this.