Credit Slips: The Bear is Dead17 Mar 2008 by Elizabeth Warren  
JPMorgan Chase purchased Bear Stearns, NOT Morgan Stanley. Please get the facts straight. Even though some might view the identity of the purchaser as trivial to the rest of your post, it bolsters confidence in the reader if he or she knows you ... Why do a secured loan and be subject to the automatic stay and the possibility you messed up the UCC-1 when you can instead just structure the deal as a repo or a swap? My understanding is that some lenders are now doing their ...
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California Confidential: Past and Present: Where the Foreclosures ...15 Apr 2009 by drhousingbubble  
California Confidential: Past and Present: Where the Foreclosures Sleep: Stage 3 Tsunami Building up Again. SB 1137 Delay and Toxic Mortgages. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Chase get a Welcome Gift to the Golden State. .... If you ever needed to do modest work on your home, you dreaded going to Home Depot on the weekend because you would run into a family in an oversized truck loaded up with grills, appliances, and every other thing HGTV was pimping that week. ...
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Safe Haven | The Oil That Greases The Squeaky Wheel of Peak Oil16 Jun 2006 by Rob Kirby  
They do so by backing-up-the-truck [especially in thin markets], selling increasing tonnage of gold [to insatiable buyers like China, Russia, Iran etc.] in a market that has been rising for 7 years. More often than not, these sales are ... One only need examine material already written and published [circa 1976] to ascertain the direct linear relationship between the Fed, The Bank of England and J.P. Morgan Chase to get a "sniff" or a sense of the scope of the complicity ...
Safehaven - http://www.safehaven.com/ - References

Stingy News Article Link: "Bank failures to surge in coming years"19 Dec 2008
"JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to buy Bear Stearns Cos. for about $2 a share after a run on the company ended 85 years of independence for Wall Street's fifth- largest securities firm and prompted a bailout by the Federal Reserve." .... How about "Sir, where should I send the repo man?" Well, folks, Citi seems to have put itself in just such a fix by borrowing lots of money to buy assets that have dropped in market value. But instead of summoning the repo (as in ...
Stingy Investor - http://www.ndir.com/