Category Archives: Debt Slavery
FREE MARY MCCULLEY–MORE DETAILS EMERGE
Edited press release received by LRM: For the millions who have lost their homes to foreclosure, or are still losing their homes to the “too big to fail” banks, Mary McCulley is a hero. In February she stood up to … Continue reading
BANKS ARE A THREAT TO SOCIETY, NOT MARY MCCULLEY
This is unbelievable. Absurd. Kafkaesque. Mary McCulley was sent to jail yesterday because supposedly she is a “public risk” and doesn’t “respect the law”: “BUTTE – A federal judge chose to give a Kentucky woman a longer prison sentence than … Continue reading
WHO OWNS WHAT: BANKS AND THE NEW FEUDALISM
In a new Salon article, David Dayen eloquently sums up root cause of the new feudalism, which is being helped along by the federal government and federal courts: “Many focus on how the failure to prosecute financial crimes, by Attorney … Continue reading
DEBT BY DESIGN: “IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO WORK YOUR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE NOW…”
And that’s the point of all these bubbles, and QE, and ZIRP, and inflation– it forces you to finance what you could once buy outright through working. This is the true end game of the “Nixon Shock,” petrodollar, credit bubbles, etc. … Continue reading
MERS: DYING A SLOW, PAINFUL DEATH?
In a bombshell story about Ginnie Mae and Bank of America–which is a big deal unto itself–Yves Smith brings in the following about MERS (Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems), which is the cornerstone of the securitization fail (Smith quotes Bloomberg): “As … Continue reading
THE SOLUTION: SINCE THE MONEY ISN’T REAL, THE DEBT ISN’T EITHER
Very interesting commentary from David Graeber (Occupy movement leader and author of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years“) on the Bank of England’s recent admission that money is created out of thin air. Graeber sounds as excited as me in describing … Continue reading
THE WAY THINGS REALLY WORK: SWAPS AND SYRIA
A couple of interesting stories read over the weekend about how–not to beat a dead horse (because this horse is very much alive)–everything is rigged, from the “economy” to war. First a great one from Ellen Brown regarding interest-rate swaps, … Continue reading
PEOPLE CATCHING ON TO BANK FRAUD–OR JUST BROKE?
Black Knight (formerly LPS, the peddlers of fraudulent mortgage documents) reveals that according to its calculations, mortgage originations are at their lowest level ever. Here’s the Zero Hedge summary of the data: New mortgage originations fell over 23% month-over-month and … Continue reading
IS EVERYTHING REALLY RIGGED? LIKE, EVERYTHING? UNFORTUNATELY, YES…
But don’t take my word for it that everything is a hoax, an illusion. Read this litany from Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Treasury Secretary under Reagan, former Wall Street Journal editor, etc.: “As I write I cannot think of … Continue reading
HOW MORTGAGE SERVICERS ARE LIKE A STARBUCKS DRIVE-THRU
Neil Garfield writes again on the topic of “servicer advances” today, explaining in a nutshell what they are: “[Servicer advances] fall into the category of payments made to the creditor-investors, which means that the creditor on the original loan, or … Continue reading