This document summarizes the predatory lending practices that contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis and financial crisis. It describes how loan originators and brokers did not properly underwrite loans and verify borrowers' income and assets in their pursuit of high fees. These predatory loans were then bundled into complex financial instruments and sold to investors, spreading risk throughout the global financial system. The outcome was a rise in foreclosures that devastated communities and led to the failures of over 300 major US lending institutions since 2006.
4. Predatory Structured Finance
The simple fact of the matter is that originating lenders (and the brokers who
bring borrowers to them) too often do not have to live with the consequences of
the loans they originate. If they were to have to take the loss on a predatory
loan, they would be less likely to originate such loans in the first place. There is
no doubt that the secondary, securitized market enables predatory lending.
But it is also that market which is often the real target of lending scams. (Equity-
skimming loans aside.) Many predatory loans cannot be justified under either an
income analysis or an asset analysis. The scam is designed by brokers (and
originating lenders) to get the money from the lender (or the secondary market).
The damage inflicted on the borrower is merely collateral. Why do you rob
banks? That's where the money is.
14. Sliced Up Into 5 Different Pieces Called Tranches
AAA all the way up, where 24% of the losses are below
that.
Taking Subprime Notes
AA
and Created
GE Quality Paper
Sold To Investors
A
Worldwide
What happens Next?
BBB
They are going to take the first losses from whoever
BBB- is in the pool (somebody stops paying)all the way to
about 8% of the losses they are are assuming in
return for a relatively high % rate
15. Loss Causation
The Analytics Of Loss Causation
A Material Misrepresentation
(or omission)
Scienter, i.e. wrongful state of
mind
A Connection With The Purchase
or Sale of a Security
Reliance, often referred to in
cases involving public securities,
markets (fraud on the market)
Economic Loss
“Loss Causation” i.e. a casual
connection between the material
misrepresentation and the loss.
26. Who Executed As Ordered:
Privatize Gains and Socialize Losses
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 12 Dec 2008 at
04:45:11 AM GMT is:
The estimated population of the United States is 305,258,550
so each citizen's share of this debt is $34,899.04.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$3.74 billion per day since September 28, 2007!!
27. If You Love Our Country And Care For The World
Wake Up
28. Fight Back!!! Save Your Home, Save The Economy.
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