Don’t Blink, or You’ll Miss Another Bailout
MANY people became rightfully upset about bailouts given to big banks during the mortgage crisis. But it turns out that they are still going on, if more quietly, through the back door.
The existence of one such secret deal, struck in July between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Bank of America, came to light just last week in court filings.
That the New York Fed would shower favors on a big financial institution may not surprise. It has long shielded large banks from assertive regulation and increased capital requirements.
Still, last week’s details of the undisclosed settlement between the New York Fed and Bank of America are remarkable. Not only do the filings show the New York Fed helping to thwart another institution’s fraud case against the bank, they also reveal that the New York Fed agreed to give away what may be billions of dollars in potential legal claims.
Here’s the skinny: Late last Wednesday, the New York Fed said in a court filing that in July it had released Bank of America from all legal claims arising from losses in some mortgage-backed securities the Fed received when the government bailed out the American International Group in 2008. One surprise in the filing, which was part of a case brought by A.I.G., was that the New York Fed let Bank of America off the hook even as A.I.G. was seeking to recover $7 billion in losses on those very mortgage securities.
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This just turns my stomach…and I also at 58 yrs old…have lost faith in the banking, housing, all big biz. I will be sure to make sure my children know what to expect in their life…..much less. I think everyone that was foreclosed on…through the banking ponzi scheme should be made whole. I think the “Banksta” should be put in jail. My Golden years are more like “hellish” years. I feel hoopeless and despair…for our future and the next generations. I’m so fed up w / the “slice and dice” attitude of America the Ugly.
Mortgage “crisis” isn’t over. Most of the awake public doesn’t buy the “Bailout” in terms of a singular event in October of 2008. Mentioning a whole slew of other facts, or people, including Paul or Sanders in the NYT is apparently taboo as well. Blink, read the NYT, fall asleep and miss everything. Bad Gretchen!
The GloBa’al Theft’$ Know NO Bounds? Imagine STEALING worthless Counterfeit DEBT NOTES and other hyper-INflated quasi Commodities that; May be Useless in Times of long ago Planned CHAOS?
Perhaps soon; the Most precious METAL, may be LEAD? Along with Hemp Ropes?
The People are WAKING UP and when the FOG Clears; IT will NOT be Pretty???