Ruh roh

Ooh, what a giveaway

Extend and pretend

For how long can they keep their balls in the air? That’s the question everyone is asking.

Sen. Tester (MT) says something about how heads oughta roll but honestly, does anybody out there believe that will ever happen?

Maybe after the big KA-BOOOM (where we the pipple can do it ‘manually’) but short of that, don’t count on your government to protect you.

Sure, they want to molest you at the airports, but is that gonna stop another 9/11 from happening? No, of course not, They couldn’t stop it the first time, either.

It’s all just Theatre of the Absurd for your bemusement.

The litmus test is, does any of this make you feel any safer?

… but he has a nice beard

Banking crisis in under two minutes

The Plan…

…total economic collapse.

Look out below!

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“Neither the wisest Constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” -Samuel Adams

Karl Denninger Kicks More Ass

Fraud to cover up fraud. Hmmm, I guess we could call that “fraud squared.”

This is NOT about “Free Houses” or anything like that. It is about EMPTY BOXES and boxes full of dogcrap - MBS that hold nothing and assets that did not meet the credit quality requirements of the trusts but were transferred in anyway. The latter we know happened for a fact because it has been testified to in front of the FCIC and is exactly like selling someone a box of chocolates – but instead of chocolate, as you represented, you took piles of used dog food, formed it into chocolate shapes, then coated it with a thin veneer of chocolate so it looked and smelled like chocolate - right up until someone decided to take a bite of one.

These events sure look like black-letter crimes to me. Selling someone crap instead of chocolate, when you tell them it’s chocolate, is plain old-fashioned fraud. So is selling someone called a “Mortgage-backed security” without the mortgage backed part. In both cases, if and when this happened, you have people who took someone’s money – some $6 trillion of it over the “go-go” years – and sold them crap that was certified as Grade “AAA” chocolate. In each and every case where the sellers lied, they committed a serious crime.

Who got screwed? You. Your pension fund. Your annuity company - an insurance company that might not be able to pay 10 years down the road when you’re old, gray and frail.

You are the one who got screwed.

And if these clowns have their way, you’ll get screwed again.

[ The Market Ticker ]

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“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” -Mark Twain

Interview with Karl Denninger

Part 1

Part 2

Wakey wakey

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Battle Royale with cheese

The shit is wide, the shit is deep, but one man has employed a boat full of lawyers to fight the power:

This shit is global

“Countrywide’s lawsuit was filed in the name of Countrywide as loan servicer, and MERS as mortgagee. I thought it strange that some unknown entity (MERS) was in a fight with me. I started doing research. This is what I found (explained in layman’s terms). Countrywide had sold the note to a trust that had been set up by the gurus on Wall St. There were 16,000 notes in the trust owned by god knows how many investors. They of course could do this because for the first time in the history of world finance, these “gurus” had separated the mortgage (collateral) from the note. MERS holds my mortgage which is recorded per law at my county court house. They don’t and will never be my, or your, note holder. This separation of the note and mortgage gives Wall St. the ability to “transfer/sell” my note at a click of a mouse thus circumventing the age old process of recording the transfer in my county court house. This slight of the hand is the fraud that created the entire secondary mortgage market and eventually the trouble we are in today. Countrywide is my loan servicer…which means they are nothing but a bookkeeper and collection agency. The holder of my note was yet to be determined.”

[How I am beating the crap out of Countrywide/MERS]

I think he means “sleight of hand” but pedantics aside, he absolutely nails it- that moment in time when our goose went into the oven at 450 degrees.

It is not done yet, but someone should check because I think I smell something burning.

I like the way in which the author reveals the sort of institutionalized chicanery that has evolved throughout the financial system unchecked, and employed like a truncheon on the back of the head of the unsuspecting little guy walking along Main Street.

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Additional perspectives on MERS:

Mortgage Electronic Registration System Loses Legal Shield
[ Barry Rtitholtz ]

Has a MERShole opened up?
[ Karl Denninger ]

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS): A System Designed to Create the Mortgage-Backed Security Bubble
[ Dr. Housing Bubble ]

Waking up to discover the mortgage market was a giant criminal enterprise
[ Matt Taibbi ]

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Debts are not always repaid. The financial markets are not always in equilibrium.