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Thanks for the warning cleg.

100% proof positive that the neither Congress(wo)man, nor anyone on their paid staffs actually writes the legislation.

Kay Hagan and Bob Corker cannot possibly believe this will help the majority of their constituents, even if they understood the bill. Which I doubt.

Thanks for the heads up, but I need to do more research into what this is. My impression is that Europe already has covered bonds, and I'm not sure exactly what all the implications are. I do know that the FDIC is against this proposal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_bond

"For the investor, one major advantage to a covered bond is that the debt and the underlying asset pool remain on the issuer's financials, and issuers must ensure that the pool consistently backs the covered bond. In the event of default, the investor has recourse to both the pool and the issuer."

I'm not so sure that FDIC is becoming explicitly responsible for the bonds. Someone would have to analyze the bill or provide a link to a full analysis.

Anyone?

Here's a bit more of an analysis:

http://tyillc.blogspot.com/2011/06/us-covered-bond-act-of-2011-wall.html

QUOTE:

So the pre-credit crisis securitization market could be repackaged as covered bonds.

Issuers of covered bonds are on the hook against losses.

In theory, this statement is true. But what happens if the issuer goes bankrupt? Remember, the issuer is a bank. Are investors in covered bonds still protected against losses on the underlying collateral? The Act says yes. As a result, the taxpayer is on the hook when the FDIC steps in to take over the issuer.

END QUOTE

More quotes:

"The covered bond legislation now pending before the Garrett subcommittee in the House is all about Wall Street and does nothing to increase the availability of housing credit," said market analyst Christopher Whalen with Institutional Risk Analytics.

"The bill lacks basic protections for investors in bonds and for the FDIC, which would be fully exposed to losses from covered bonds under the Garrett proposal," he said.

"Most banks today have more funding than can be employed. (Covered bonds) do not add any new, non-bank funding leverage to the system, which is the key objective if we are to avoid a catastrophe in housing."

None of the "saving the lil guys" actions have ever been about anything except SAVING BALANCE SHEETS of insolvent banks. Nothing new here.

Thanks for the mention of an underrated louche--my own senator, the Hon. Bob Corker. I have sent him several snarky messages, most recently about a banking bill that has a federalized "MERS 2" as its centerpiece. Now this. My last message asked him to please provide the names of the banking lobbyists that he gets to write this shite. We'll see if I receive any honest info. Not going to lose sleep over it.

What happened to the Buzz word "TARP"???

Is their anything that we can actually do to make our elected officials understand that we are tired of being robbed by corporate America and the federal reserve. When they print our money the scam starts and continues to fleece their accounts with taxpayer dollars, as we slip away into financial doom.

Sen. Hagan has the major banks parked firmly in her backyard (Charlotte, NC). You can BET that they had as much or more to do with the authoring of this bill than Sen. Hagan herself.

She's a schill, nothing more.

"Comment Policy: Be Nice Or Take It Outside''

How do you 'be nice' while in the process of being raped by the corporate/globalist government?

Full face value? It must be nice to have such big backers if things so south. Great article!

I have found a big pile of horse manure down the street with a market value of $760,000,000 dollars. I also have the paper work that guarantees this to be a realistic appraisal of this fine rejuvenator of the flora kingdom, and frequently utilized inspiration in today's creative markets. Would the FDIC insure this if I put it in to neat paper wrapped bundles and deposited it in Paulson's front yard?

The stage is set for the final showdown of this preposterous, odious, illegal debt.

GOOGLE: CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

Or go to the link below for the only solution to this organized theft by deception.

STOP FINANCIAL SODOMY - IT KILLS EVERYTHING!

http://www.zerohedge.com/print/365866

So...students can't file for bankruptcy on student loans, but the FDIC is insuring their payment?

Great. Banks are too big to fail, but our economy and freedoms are not.

shrekgrinch says

The ONLY way this will stop is only after it all goes to hell.

NO candidate can run on a platform of truth (economic slowdown). Gubmint (FED) agents would commit rapid suicide admitting the truth.
I suggest Patrick.net starts a pool for predicting the NOVA. (when do they run out of promises ?)

I will shoot for 3/13/2013

Shrek, I agree with you!

Group A (people who own things for a living) make money lending money to the government and often pay little in taxes relative to what they get out of it: Government contracts, subsidies, military defense of their overseas holdings, ability to regulate the money supply to the benefit of lenders most of the time, leasing public land for token amounts, minimal royalties on resource extraction, price supports, etc. Even food stamps and section 8 makes them money.

Group B (people who work for a living) pay taxes not only on their own services, but to support the interest payments to Group A.

This is why there is no serious program aimed to alleviate the cause of debt by helping the borrowers, just programs to help the lenders. Compare the terms for HAMP and TARP! Not just for US citizens but also for foreign borrowers as well. The best they can hope for, as you alluded to, is stretching out the payment terms to add more time.

It may also be a major cause of why the bottom 80% has stagnated (and for some declined) while the top 20%, and in particular the top 1%, has seen their income explode, even though the economy grew substantially in general over the past few decades. The explosion of debt, public and private, and those who get the interest are generally not the 99%.

Income disparity is caused by big government and punitive, over-regulated liberalism. Too hard for lefty's to connect the dots, because they are the principal, though not the only, cause of the problem...RINO's also contributed.

Todays book recommendation for our socialist leaning liberal friends, A Bull in China, by Jim Rogers.

Honest Abe says

Income disparity is caused by big government and punitive, over-regulated liberalism. Too hard for lefty's to connect the dots, because they are the principal, though not the only, cause of the problem...RINO's also contributed.

Funny how income disparity rises under deregulatory environments. 1920s, Reagan, etc.

History pretty much always disagrees with your "facts". Does that ever bother you?

tatupu70 says

Honest Abe says

Income disparity is caused by big government and punitive, over-regulated liberalism. Too hard for lefty's to connect the dots, because they are the principal, though not the only, cause of the problem...RINO's also contributed.

Funny how income disparity rises under deregulatory environments. 1920s, Reagan, etc.

History pretty much always disagrees with your "facts". Does that ever bother you?

It hasn't bothered him at all so far.

The main issue here is how can a debt be an "asset"