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“Government Violates the Citizens (Again)” by Karl Denninger “This is going to be an ongoing series, I suspect - tracking government abuse of the citizenry via debt-shifting. What am I referring to? Simple: Back-door bailouts of banks and industry (notably the auto industry) through farcical programs that con the citizens of the nation to take on unsustainable debt, thereby transferring what should be a corporate or bank failure to into a whole bunch of personal bankruptcies. There are t

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By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker This is going to be an ongoing series, I suspect – tracking government abuse of the citizenry via debt-shifting. What am I referring to? Simple: Back-door bailouts of banks and industry (notably the auto industry) through farcical programs that con the citizens of the nation to take on unsustainable debt, thereby transferring what should be a corporate or bank failure to into a whole bunch of personal bankruptcies. There are two programs in particu

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Get Ready for More Bank FailuresBusinessWeekFirst, it was bad residential real estate loans, including the notorious subprime mortgages. The biggest bank failure of the crisis occurred on Sept. …Failure of Corus Bank puts condo loans up for sale Bizjournals.comCorus Bank Is the Latest to Be Seized by Regulators Wall Street JournalMonday Morning Cup of Coffee Housing Wire Consumer Affairsall 487 news articles »

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by Moe Bedard on September 8, 2009 · 0 commentsin Mortgage Servicers “We’re still waiting to see how the Wachovia and Washington Mutual portfolios play out,” said Brian Olasov, who studies the banking industry as managing director at law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge. “We’ve got a big bulge in resets still to come.”WaMu and Wachovia, now part of Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500), helped stoke the housing bubble by issuing tens of billions of dollars of so-called option adjustable rate mortgages. Opt

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“It does gall you. Just because we’re a little bitty county doesn’t mean we don’t need a bank. It wasn’t our fault.” – Hazel Bedingfield, 79, who now travels 24 miles for her Social Security payment at her new bank You deposit your paycheck on Friday and can’t get money out on Saturday. But don’t worry, the FDIC will cut you a check on Monday morning. Your county commissioner tells the evening news: “The bank failure opens up an opportunity for another bank to set up here. Until then, c

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