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Fraud*
According to the Collins English Dictionary 10th Edition fraud can be defined as: "deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage".[1] In the broadest sense, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation. Defrauding people or entities of money or valuables is a common purpose of fraud, but there have also been fraudulent "discoveries", e.g. in science, to gain prestige rather than immediate monetary gain
*As defined in Wikipedia

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Goldman Sachs in Senate Subcommittee - Wall Street And The Financial Crisis


Thanks to a reader's comment who provided the link to the following post from another blog.  What is most interesting in this blog is the link to the United States Senate PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS  report WALL STREET AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS. 

Open and bookmark this report...click here

The post for the most part is very well written.  As it says, the length and technical speak will be too much for most to absorb.  They have as they put it, created the "Cliff Notes" version of this 650 page report.  While I have not read the Subcommittee report yet, I know that most of what is told here is true.   

While I do not like WAMU (now part of J.P. Morgan Chase who I like even less) I must say that their main mortgage program - the pay option arm - was not toxic.  In fact they had been offering it for many years and was at one time the only program they had.  World Savings (now part of Wachovia which is part of Wells Fargo who I like equally as little as J.P. Morgan) also had a program like theirs which they offerred very successfully for many, many years with little defaults.  The problem with this program began when Wall Street created a market to securitize this program.  As that happened other lenders/banks offered it.   Competition and mostly - encouragement of the government - to ease credit and create more homeowners (this began during the Clinton Administration) caused this program to go toxic.  The pay option arm mortgage was initially meant to be more of a financial planning tool.  It offered a low interest pay rate and deferred the difference.  By doing so, people of financial means simply "put their money to better use".  The program was never meant for those who could not afford a mortgage at the then prevailing rate or for investors who could not afford the investment to begin with.  It was this unintended use that created the toxicity. So what or shall I ask "who" caused this once good program to become toxic?

In addition, contrary to what the "Cliff Notes" say, most brokers did not commit outright fraud, forge documents or make phony loans. While there were some that did and "always had" - those "bad apples" exist even today - in most industries.  Just look at the fraud being committed by the foreclosure mill lawyers AND the banks themselves. This should not be and should never have been a total indictment of the mortgage broker industry.  LItterally hundreds of thousands of "good" honest people were the first victims of layoffs due to the closure of the hundreds of mortgage broker companies around the country.  The real causes of the problem, the WAMU's, Wells Fargo's, Bank of America's of the country are profiting more then ever and go unpunished for the crimes their crimes affecting the entire world and specifically those of us here in the U.S.   Treasonous to say the least...but they keep on stealing.

Anatomy of a Financial Collapse from AlterNet/by Les Leopold

How Wall Street Thieves, Led by Goldman Sachs, Took Down the Global Economy -- Their Outsized Influence Must be Stopped
If we don't bust up Big Finance, there soon will be another financial crisis that will destroy what's left of our middle-class way of life. 
Read it all...click here

2 COMMENTS:

Anonymous said...

If they need help with legal expenses they should ask for donations...hmmm...I wonder what they'll find in discovery?We need more activists like these...


Claiming Fraud in A.I.G. Bailout, Whistle-Blower Lawsuit Names 3 Companies

The lawsuit, filed by a pair of veteran political activists from the La Jolla area of San Diego, asserts that A.I.G. and two large banks engaged in a variety of fraudulent and speculative transactions, running up losses well into the billions of dollars. Then the three institutions persuaded the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to bail them out by giving A.I.G. two rescue loans, which were used to unwind hundreds of failed trades.

The lawsuit names A.I.G., Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank as defendants, but not the Fed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/business/05aig.html?_r=2&ref=business

Anonymous said...

The Big Lie

The Bernank Has No Clothes

The Bernank’s inaugural press conference last week was nothing short of a disaster. The Wizard of Disneyland came out from behind his curtain and despite softball questions from “journalists” couldn’t make any sense whatsoever. I just listened to it again a few minutes ago. His answers were full of contradictions and backwards logic. The first time the word “inflation” came out of his mouth in response to a question he started stuttering. When asked about the dollar he said “the treasury is the spokesperson for the dollar.” Come again Bernank? They are FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES and you create them out of thin air. And lots of em. The Big Lie.

http://tinyurl.com/6amzqjl

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