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Scrooge Goes Rogue---Bankers Armed and Dangerous

Dec. 10, 2009

Tagged with: armed, bankers, dangerous, guns, irony, paranoia, shootouts

Goldman Sachs goes ballistic. What to buy a banker for Christmas. Why are bankers buying guns?

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Are You a Victim of Predatory Lending?

Dec. 8, 2009

Tagged with: default, lending, predatory, prime, sub

Lenders targeted most of us for predatory lending, sold us bad loans and bet that the borrower would default.

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What to do When You Cannot Make Your Mortgage Payment

Nov. 30, 2009

Tagged with: default, defense, foreclosure, loophole, mortgage, prevention

Can't make your mortgage payment? Don't leave your home, mortgage loophole could save the day. Here is what to do to fight back against foreclosure.

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The Problems with Mortgage Modifications

Nov. 23, 2009

Mortgage modifications, cruel joke, scam, waste of time

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Putting Foreclosures in Perspective

Nov. 9, 2009

Tagged with: default, derivatives, foreclosure, fraud, insured, mortgage, planned

Lenders deliberately made bad loans so they could bet on them to fail. Credit default swaps on defaulted mortgages is where the real money continues to be made.

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Buyer Beware, Title Defects Plague Foreclosures and Short Sales

Oct. 29, 2009

Tagged with: defect, foreclosure, fraud, lostnote, title

Courts increasingly halting foreclosures lacking proper chain of title.

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Punishing the Banks and Those Who Abetted Them

Oct. 20, 2009

Tagged with: derivatives, foreclosure, greed, scandal, securitization

Tired of Wall Street rip-offs and crooked politicians? Are you facing financial hardship or foreclosure? Would you like to strike a blow against coporate greed and obscene bonuses. Here's what you can do.

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Mortgage Securitization...A Web of Lies

Oct. 20, 2009

Now we know where the money went. It was the biggest Ponzi scheme in history and it has touched almost everyone.

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What Happened to All of Our Money?

Oct. 20, 2009

Tagged with: avarice, deception, greed

Why will no one tell us what happened to our prosperity? Where did the bailout money really go.

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60 Million Mortgages May Have Fatal Flaws

Oct. 20, 2009

Tagged with: foreclosure, mers, mortgage flaws

Millions of Homeowners may not be legally required to pay their mortgages. What would you do?

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Is the Foreclosure Panic The Y2K of This Decade?

Aug. 29, 2009

Tagged with: collapse, distressed, foreclosures, inventory, panic, reo, short sale, y2k

North San Diego County is not experiencing a flood of foreclosures and has very little available for sale that isn't a short sale or a bank owned property.

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