The judge’s freedom file includes Jay Rockefeller’s idiotic comments about censorship of Fox and MSNBC, and cops busting adults playing chess in the park.
Part 1, Beck on what is happening with TSA and the crickets coming from the White House:
Neil Cavuto interviews Charles Payne on Obama’s $30 billion small bank bailout which he believe will do little as the banks that receive the money will just sit on it like the Big Boys did.
What’s more important about this interview is the Neil Barofsky report that has another interesting tidbit inside.
This is going to be another one of these programs that sounds great on the surface but doesn’t work, like this home mortgage program. This thing is a disaster. I don’t know if you if saw this Neil Barofsky report, but he’s saying $75 Billion to help 4 million, (Neil: This is the TARP guy), he’s the TARP inspector general. This guy has been the straightest guy out of everybody out there, maybe that’s why we don’t hear about him too much. $75 Billion dollars set aside to help 4 million homes. He’s saying that it’s only helped 66,000 so far?
For those that would like to peruse the 224 page quarterly report to Congress issued 1/30/2010, go here.
From Page 96:
Homeowner Support Program
Making Home Affordable Program
The Making Home Affordable (“MHA”) program was introduced by the Administration on February 18, 2009, as a collection of three major initiatives: a loan modification program, a loan refinancing program, and additional support for reduced mortgage interest rates. According to Treasury, the program was designed
to offer assistance to millions of homeowners making a good-faith effort to pay their mortgages and to protect families and communities from the destructive impact of the housing crisis. Subsequently, Treasury has created a foreclosure alternative program as a part of MHA. TARP funds are primarily dedicated to one initiative within MHA, the Home Affordable Modification Program (“HAMP”). According to Treasury, HAMP is a
$75 billion program that will lower monthly mortgage payments for homeowners by providing loan modification incentive payments to the servicers and loan holders (lenders or investors — referred to as investors in this section) and by protecting against further loss of collateral value. In addition, the MHA program now includes foreclosure alternatives for those not able to complete a HAMP modification. Of the $75 billion reserved for HAMP, $50 billion will be funded through TARP and will be used to modify private-label mortgages.Of the $50 billion in TARP funding, $10 billion has been allocated to encourage HAMP modification by protecting investors from potential home-price declines in their mortgage portfolio assets in regions where forestalling foreclosure may lead to significant losses. According to Treasury, the purpose of the Home Price Decline Protection (“HPDP”) program is to “encourage additional lender participation and HAMP modifications in areas with recent price declines by helping to offset any incremental collateral loss on modifications that do not succeed.” In addition, Treasury estimates that another $4.6 billion of the TARP $50 billion allocation will be used for the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives (“HAFA”) program, previously referred to as the Short-Sales/Deeds-In-Lieu of Foreclosure (“SS/DIL”) program, designed to provide alternatives to foreclosure. Beyond the TARP support, the additional $25 billion in HAMP funding is provided under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (“HERA”) and will be used to modify mortgages that are owned or guaranteed by the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”), two of the Government-sponsored enterprises (“GSEs”).
Status of Funds As of December 31, 2009, Treasury had signed agreements with 102 loan servicers
allocating up to $35.5 billion under HAMP. Of that $35.5 billion, as of December 31, 2009, $15.4 million had been spent on incentives for 11,574 of the 66,465 permanent modifications. The remaining permanent modifications will receive incentive payments in the next quarter. Of that $15.4 million, approximately $12.1 million represents incentive payments to servicers and $3.2 million represents payments to investors. Borrower incentive payments begin only after one year of participation in the program.
To date, the largest allocation of incentive payments went to Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP, now owned by Bank of America, which is eligible to receive up to $6.8 billion in TARP funds. The average allocation to each servicer through HAMP is $348.5 million. The amount of funding allocated to a servicer does not represent the amount of incentives paid to the servicer; rather, the allocation is the maximum amount, or cap, of potential incentive payments that Treasury has approved for each servicer. Table 2.25 provides details regarding the five largest allocations made under HAMP as of December 31, 2009.
Charles Payne is stepping in for Glenn today and has John Tamney of RealClearMarkets, Steve Spruiell from the National Review, and Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital who is also running for Senate against Chris Dodd. Their discussion is about the loss of jobs, the growth of government, the lack of capital in the markets, and what to expect from the economy in the future.
Part 1:
Part 2:
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Charles Payne explains the redistribution of wealth that is occurring right now in our country through the “stimulus bill”, leading to the disbursement of most of stimulus funds right before the 2010 elections. Just remember $105 TRILLION DOLLARS of unfunded liabilities; money we have promised to pay…
Part 2 with Charles Payne:
Thanks to GlennBeckDailyClips for the vids.
Our lovely friends at AIC/AIG (and don’t forget Goldman Sachs) received upwards of $85 Billion dollars because they were too big to fail, yet the biggest lender to small and medium sized businesses, CIT Group who needs at least $2 Billion and upwards of a whopping $6 Billion (snark) is going to get thrown to the lions; and in this case, the lion is J.P. Morgan who just posted a $2.7 BILLION profit. CIT Group will become the 4th Largest Bankruptcy, and will more than likely take down numerous small and medium businesses with her while in bankruptcy.
What was I just saying about decimating the middle class and small businesses in this country? What was I saying about bringing America to her knees by destroying her economy so that the general population would be so demoralized they would allow a global government with the Pilgrims in charge?
Glenn Beck had an interview today with Charles Payne about just this subject; CIT Group and the really rich and powerful slamming the door on the rest of us so we will stay in our “place”.
Please keep in mind that I put this video together rather quickly because all of my “go to” videographers have not thought to make this one.
I am adding links to pertinent stories so that you can catch up.
CIT Group May Need $6 Billion to Avoid Bankruptcy, Analysts Say
July 16 (Bloomberg) — CIT Group Inc., the 101-year-old lender running short of cash, may need as much as $6 billion to avoid seeking bankruptcy protection after the U.S. wouldn’t give the firm another bailout, CreditSights Inc. analysts said.
“CIT indicated that it needs at least $2 billion of rescue financing in the next 24 hours or it would likely file,” said CreditSights analysts including Adam Steer. “We believe the figure is in the range of $4 to $6 billion plus, making outside capital sources shy away.” CIT’s debt tumbled, the shares plunged and the risk of default soared to a record today.
The lender is trying to raise $2 billion from debt holders and gave them 24 hours to put up the money, the Wall Street Journal reported today, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. New York-based CIT told investors that without the cash, it will probably file for bankruptcy, the Journal said.
CIT Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Peek failed to convince regulators that fallout from a collapse would threaten the rest of the financial system. Officials at the Treasury, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have resisted putting additional taxpayer funds at risk, on top of $2.33 billion granted to CIT in December, to keep the lender afloat.
“While it is possible that CIT could receive rescue financing, we believe the prudent course for bondholders is to brace for bankruptcy,” CreditSights wrote.
CIT’s $2.1 billion, five-year bank line maturing in April was arranged by Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc., and includes Merrill Lynch & Co. — part of Bank of America — UBS AG and Morgan Stanley, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Jeffrey Peek
Peek, 62, joined CIT in 2003 after failing to land the top job at Merrill Lynch & Co. He pushed the lender into subprime mortgages and student loans to pump up growth.
What this really means:
Regulators were debating whether a CIT collapse would cause a cascade of failures among other businesses, the same reasoning used to justify multiple bailouts of American International Group Inc., once the world’s biggest insurer, and Citigroup, formerly the largest U.S. bank.
Barney Frank
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said he’s “heard from a lot of people, including a lot of people involved in small business, that it would cause a serious problem” if CIT failed.
“I was struck by the number of people who were concerned and felt that if there was a total collapse it would have very negative consequences,” Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in an interview yesterday.
Supporters of U.S. aid pointed to CIT’s 1 million customers who may lose funding, including 300,000 retailers. Tracy Mullin, chief executive of the National Retail Federation, said in a letter to Treasury’s Geithner that a CIT failure “cannot be allowed to happen at a time when retailers are already struggling to survive the national recession.”
And then there is THIS:
CIT Group Says Its Failure Risks Demise of Customers (Update3)
July 13 (Bloomberg) — CIT Group Inc., the century-old lender that hasn’t been able to persuade the government to back its debt sales, says its demise would put 760 manufacturing clients at risk of failure and “precipitate a crisis” for as many as 300,000 retailers.
A collapse would ripple across the “small and medium-sized businesses who rely on CIT to operate — to pay their vendors, ship goods to their customers and make their payroll,” the New York-based lender said in internal documents obtained by Bloomberg News that make the case for its importance to the U.S. economy. CIT spokesman Curt Ritter declined to comment on the documents.
CIT executives spoke with regulators during the past two days, according to a person familiar with the talks, after its bonds and shares tumbled on concern that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. won’t allow the lender into its bond-guarantee program created last year to unfreeze debt markets. CIT may default as soon as April, when a $2.1 billion credit line matures, according to Fitch Ratings.
“A CIT default would create liquidity issues for the corporate sector,” Ed Grebeck, chief executive officer of debt consulting firm Tempus Advisors in Stamford, Connecticut. “If CIT isn’t doing trade finance and lending, its customers will look to other banks for replacement and from what I’ve seen, they aren’t willing to step up.”
Bonds, Shares Fall
A failure of CIT, run by Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Peek, would be the biggest bank collapse since regulators seized Washington Mutual Inc. in September. CIT reported $75.7 billion in assets and $68.2 billion in liabilities, including $3 billion in deposits, at the end of the first quarter.
CIT’s $656 million of 5.125 percent notes due in 2014 fell 4.5 cents on the dollar to 53 cents as of 9:21 a.m. in New York, according to Trace, the bond-price reporting system of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. The debt yields 20 percent.
The stock declined 36 cents, or 23.5 percent, to $1.17 as of 9:36 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. It dropped 46 cents, or 23 percent, last week.
The company, which reported more than $3 billion of losses in the past eight quarters, says it’s hired Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP as an adviser.
New York-based Skadden is known for its work in mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcies. The firm represented BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s largest mining company, in its $150 billion proposed acquisition of Rio Tinto, and advised Circuit City Stores Inc. in its bankruptcy.
Maturing Debt
“Skadden is one of the principal law firms representing CIT,” Ritter said in an e-mail on July 11. “They represent the firm on a wide variety of corporate matters. CIT will not comment on any specific aspect of their engagement.”
…and then there was Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom who just loves to come by and peruse the current post. So take a gander at the following links and find the connections to all sorts of other members of the banking cartel and the Pilgrims.
Wiki: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
NNDB: Skadden, Arps
