Mortgage reset spike coming

The vast bulk of mortgage resets lie ahead of, not behind us.

This reset profile is of great concern, because the majority of resets are still ahead. Moreover, the mortgages to which these resets will apply are primarily those originated late in the housing bubble, at the highest prices, and therefore having the largest [...]

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Madoff brother, wife, sons, feeder funds have assets frozen

The court order from a Connecticut judge includes Fairfield Greenwich Group, a big hedge fund who said they did due diligence on Madoff but apparently did little but pass money on to him, collecting steep fees for doing so.

This is big. When they say frozen, they mean frozen. No withdrawals, no credit cards, no [...]

G20. Dress rehearsal for the revolution?

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Chris Knight, the anthropology professor suspended from the University of East London last week for suggesting that bankers might be lynched, was wandering the march alone. “I just met a copper and I said to him, ‘Is this the revolution?’ He said: ‘No, this is the dry run, the revolution [...]

How can you do April Fools jokes when events are beyond satire?

April Fools jokes? Hah! Things are way too dire for that. Collapsing economies, criminals in high places, you know the whole enchilada way too well.

However, the Marxist International Liberation Front has been documenting hitherto unknown ties between our capitalist overlords, like that AIG is money-laundering for the Queen of England’s heroin smuggling. Whoops, [...]

Wind powered vehicle breaks world record

The fixed-wing Greenwind has set a new world record for a wind-powered vehicle, 126.1 mph. Now they want to try it on ice, and go even faster.

Iceland. How to blow up a country.

Michael Lewis on the collapse of Iceland

Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance—resulted from a stunning collective madness. What led a tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, to decide, [...]

Joseph Cassano and AIG. How to blow up a company

Joseph Cassano

Joseph Cassano bankrupted AIG. Yes, that’s right, he bankrupted it. Reports are the FBI is close to filing charges against him.

I expect he’ll become as detested as Madoff.

Fargo shows us what community looks like

80,000 volunteers worked unceasingly for days to build the levees in Fargo. The city is only 90,000 so that means everyone who could work, did. More came from surrounding areas. People opened their homes to those who had lost homes, sometimes just giving them the keys, literally leaving the doors open when they weren’t there.

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Wealthy Underground Organization says Free Bernie!

Today at dawn, New York City police surprised a gang of free market fanatics just before they could set off a massive dynamite explosion that would have blown away the entire northern wall of lower Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center.

News of the daring rescue attempt quickly spread throughout radical capitalist circles, bringing tycoons, magnates, and [...]