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Administration Declares GSE Model "Dead", Increases Down Payment Requirements, Sends Gold To Highs Of Week
As the Treasury releases its long-awaited GSE report on "Reforming America's Housing Finance Market" the one asset class that moved is gold. The reason: D.C. proposes, very tentatively, to decrease the role of the government in GSEs, as rumored previously, considering that the banks would love to get an ever greater piece of the securitized GSE action. Not helping is the soundbite from the administration: ""The GSE model is dead," an Obama administration official
told reporters as the Treasury Department released a
long-awaited report on options to revamp housing reform.
" As Reuters reports: "The housing "white paper" presents three different visions for replacing mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which are set to be slowly wound down. The paper does not make a single recommendation, but broadly outlines alternative possibilities to reduce the government's role in the mortgage market. That strategy aims to "open a dialogue with Republicans that would lead to a consensus outcome within a couple of years," said Michael Barr, a professor at the University of Michigan and a former Treasury Department official." In other words, just like the findings of the president's commission on the deficit, this paper will be glossed over by a bunch of beltway politicians and then promptly forgotten as whatever the banking lobby wishes to happen behind the scenes, happens. As for actionable proposals, the paper core recommendation is "increased guarantee fee pricing, increased down payment requirements, and other measures – to bring private capital back into the mortgage market and reduce taxpayer risk."
More from Reuters:
Texas Representative Jeb Hensarling wants to eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac within five years, allowing the private sector to take over the government role.
The fourth highest ranking House Republican has not yet formally introduced his bill to do that, and it is unclear when he might do so.
Democrats are generally more supportive of a government role in the mortgage market and argue that removing the federal backstop for mortgages would make loans more expensive and price many middle class Americans out of home ownership.
"I want to make sure the window of opportunity for home ownership isn't closing for the next generation of homeowners," said John Taylor, chief executive of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an association of community-based groups that promote access to basic banking services for working families.
The housing industry, including real estate agents, homebuilders and mortgage bankers is also supportive of some government role for backstopping mortgages and have already started pushing back against some of the most aggressive privatization proposals.
And after skimming the report, the key findings are: "We recommend FHFA employ a number of policy levers – including increased guarantee fee pricing, increased down payment requirements, and other measures – to bring private capital back into the mortgage market and reduce taxpayer risk. As the market improves and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are wound down, it should be clear that the government is committed to ensuring that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have sufficient capital to perform under any guarantees issued now or in the future and the ability to meet any of their debt obligations."
It is therefore not surprising that gold has just gotten spooked: after all if this is not just more boilerplate material, the great GSE deconservatorship process has begun. But don't worry: GSE reform won't be completed for many years, and certainly not before the next major financial crisis wipes out the entire securitization market out for good. In other words - more taxpayer money spent to pretend we are changing the status quo, when doing anything but.
Gold, which is at the highs of the week:
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Oh yea so many will qualify with those amazing part time jobs.
You won't need a loan once the prices of homes drop down to where they really should be.
Did I say YOU. I meant to say "Investors from other countries".
Good luck to all!
If FHA financing goes away and/OR anything more than the now 3% on a FHA loan is required, the housing market and, more broadly, the economy, is TOAST.
Think I'm exaggerating? If so, you don't know how the modern real estate market is staying alive, even if barely.
And if you think this approach on housing, which isn't the rapidly depreciating (until recently) and consumable product that automobiles are, will be limited to housing, think again.
Go back to 20% or even 15% down mortgages, conventional, and we'll see housing sales plunge far deeper than they have.
This is literally the shot across the bow.
There can be no surer sign that mortgage interest rates are heading higher, than the government getting out of the business.
Bloomberg carries a story today in which Jamie Dimon trashes the GSEs. He must have forgotten the WAMU trash he's sitting on.
I think you meant this is figuratively a shot across the bow.
I meant literal 'shot across the bow,' as millions of homes will be good for nothing more than target/range sessions.
I'm forced to agree; without the effective subsidy that the GSEs provided to the housing market, we're looking at probably another 20% decline at a minimum. The presence of a size buyer basically willing to take losses fluffed prices up far more than warranted.
from 8:59 to 9:05 silver just dropped .22 cents. Blythe enters stage right.
As I was saying yesterday "The GSE model is Dead."
But the way they said it on NPR was that the "Government footprint in the mortgage market was to big" and steps had/were being taken to bring in private money.
Amazing how the President gets briefed the same day on the subject as I do!
This of course is just getting the law/paper work out of the way.
Let houses collaspe for another 2 years or 20 % decline , and that private money
money should start showing up form Goldman and JP Morgan to snatch up some steals in the GSE market.
Like I said, in the end the FED will own a large percent of all the homes in the US.
thru it's affilate members of course. "They Reluctently had to step in" will be Benarke's words.
The pistol in Bernake's hand is the interest rate.
I dont understand why this issue of the FED being the biggest landlord is never talked about on this site?
Isn't it true, that the FED with an increasing share of the GSE market (the biggest stake) and growing , will place this into private money at sometime in the future.
Private hands, just means JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. Houses should continue to drop in price , allowing for the fed to acquire a few million more units before the big garage sale.
Now home prices are 30-40% of their peak, as the FED sells its inventory to JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, at a bargain price. Seeing how these banks are part of the FED, they are really selling the houses to themselves!
Bernake can can rasie rates at any time and force millions more into foreclosure.
Will are dealing with the biggest baddest landlord of all time,
So, even though the GSE might be worthless, toxic, at the bottom of the bag are actually physicla homes, several million.
Ok I think I might of answered my own question.
During times of hyperinflation the price of realestate, is pegged.
So the group, controling the real estate and ownership of such are the winners at the end of the hyperinflation.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss...
Keepers of the "perks" i.e. McMansions, and the ability to leverage them in a post-modern "MTV cribs" world.
..... And people say religious types are morons reading obsolete books.
well, the income tax wasn't enough apparently. I guess they figure by owning all the mortgages, they'll get their money back
I dont understand why this issue of the FED being the biggest landlord is never talked about on this site?
I've actually thought about this a bit, and tried to contemplate what the end game might be. No matter what, it won't be pretty, and it certainly won't benefit Main Street.
Nothing will come of this. The banks will not allow it and they run our govt.
lock stock and barrel. banks will never accept private losses. the taxpayer must be responsible for all loss.
Yeah, the Fed has already purchased much of this garbage at the bubble prices. My guess is the banks will get to buy it back at the current value and the taxpayer will eat the difference. Disgusting.
Taxpayers are becomming scarce. If you are unemployed , and alot of them i may add, and living in your car, How does one pay taxes?
Sales tax will still get you. At least that is local.
Well, unemployment benefits are considered taxable income. That is moot however, considering that roughly 45% of Americans end up with zero (or negative) federal tax liability. This is not a recent phenomenon either...here's an article from 2006 (peak of the "good times") showing the number at 41%. If you don't like/trust the source, there are plenty of others out there.
I'm guessing some of the increase has to do with what you're describing, but some also has to be attributable to the additional tax credits recently enacted (lifetime learning credit, etc.). Point is, there have always been plenty of free riders on the bus.
I'm not paying for this.
That is going to be my war band's motto. After the Zombpocalypse, of course.
GSE reform won't be completed for many years, and certainly not before the next major financial crisis wipes out the entire securitization market out for good. In other words - more taxpayer money spent to pretend we are changing the status quo, when doing anything but.
Dear Tyler,
Anything coming out of DC with the word "reform" in it really means "new fraud"
Deep in these bs bills of reform, are the future tracks, and legal framework
that allows for legal future theft of assets that are in question. Meaning:
So i read your above piece, not only is this a pretend bill, but it the bill are the exact assets that they want to steal and when they want to steal them, and the reform laws that give them the advantage, or right out steal.
<< Anything coming out of DC with the word "reform" in it really means "new fraud" >>
Absolutely so; akin to the periodic economic bulls issued by the old Soviet Presidium -- and, in the end, likely just as resultant.
Just another example of the USA talking it's book in order to maintain (or prevent from plunging) it's financial credibility. There is no way to exit from the Mexican standoff. While they talk of reducing risk, that's all it is, talk. They fully understand that they must actually rush more people into the fight in order to keep the collapse at bay.
As Todd Harrison said back in 2008, they sold the car crash and bought the cancer. We are now seeing the effects of not only the cancer as it eats away at the body, but we are seeing what the chemo is doing to the immune system. The only thing remarkable about all this is the amount of abuse the body can take before it collapses into a bowl of quivering jelly.
Yep CD or in somewhat more laymans term theyre all full of crap! 'The amount of abuse the body can take'...hell theyre just in denial claiming the 100% life support terminal patient will soon be running the Boston Marathon...DENIAL is not a river in Egypt, central planners!
"The GSE model is dead!" Ironic Mr. President since the only financial institutions left standing are the ones that are "government sponsored."
Does this mean "we the people" are sponsoring the government?
Unless we say "no" (and back that no up) we are in effect saying "yes" to everything the government is doing and saying. BTW it stopped being "my" government well over a decade ago. But even though I reject the present government as not acting for me or in my interests I'm still responsible for making an effort to stop this madness just like the Egyptian people are finally recognizing their own responsibility to stop the madness over there.
I think China will be screwed more than the US when the 2 GSEs finally default on their obligations.
China cares less if theyre screwed, they can write off a couple billion unarmed peasants, what do they care? Here, they know when TSHTF theres about 100 million armed americans at least that can wreak a whole lot of havoc.
Marcus Antonius:
And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
No. China is not screwed, they have a lot of our manufacturing assets, they are good at reverse engineering. So if the US says, FU to china, they will reply FUT by taking ownership of all those factories and telling the Apples, P&G's of the world to shove it.
So we will end up exchanging GSE/Treasury debt for factories. Ain't life a bitch?
I dont see how people figure China is screwed. What do they care? Theyve got most of our manufacturing, and would hardly care about a billion less Chinese peasants.
China already has us by the nuts anyway, and Obama just made the deal for 500 Chinese cities here in the US anyway. No americans say a word about it, ignorance is bliss!
No. China is not screwed, they have a lot of our manufacturing assets, they are good at reverse engineering.
I do not have personal animus towards the Chinese People, but - their leaders are not our friends, they have malice-saturated intentions, and the gap between their much-touted 'skills' and the reality of their ability to innovate or engineer is vast.
They have, however, edited 'Top Gun' footage and used it in an attempt to pass off the incredible capabilities of their new J-20 'stealth' fighter jet:
China uses Top Gun scene in its stealth fighter jet video
the article said "J10," which is incidentally a reverse-engineered Lavi. Or else the israelis sold them the design.
the only things built well in china are in western factories. Anything local is a counterfeit, cheap, and shoddy.
I know a highly skilled machinist who works for a boutique precision CNC shop that 'reworks' and fixes industrial machine parts.
90% of his work involves fixing bastardized Chinese parts, outsourced due to low cost, that are sent back stateside, because they are literally so out of spec that they won't even fit on their intended equipment.
He told me that it would be significantly less expensive and much more efficient to just craft these parts here to begin with, even at much higher original prices, as the things would get produced properly 99.99% of the time to begin with.
He jokes about it, but in an almost sad manner, because he knows that this insane loop is benefitting both him (he makes over $70/hour, non-overtime - he pulls 50% more than that with overtime hours- , but he is highly skilled) and his company, but he also knows that if this insanity isn't reversed, the Chinese probably will improve with time.
As an aside, this guy is so skilled, he reproduces out of production motor parts for older gen VW motors and Benz diesels (his employer allows him to use their equipment in his off time; the price of retaining a brilliant employee, I guess. And yes, he's an American of German heritage).
What's your point? Sounds like any bar at last call.
That's why they are pretending to do something as they are scared shitless about the Chinese response if it all goes tits up...
Bunch of desperate 'Lets make it look like we've got things under control' nonsense in a full implosion.
[That strategy aims to "open a dialogue with Republicans that would lead to a consensus outcome within a couple of years," said Michael Barr, a professor at the University of Michigan and a former Treasury Department official."]---TD
These are not the cash-for-closures bailout droids you are looking for. Move along.
Perhaps there are additional reasons gold is going up:
International Monetary Fund director Dominique Strauss-Kahn calls for new world currencyhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/currency/8316834/International-Moneta...
"Strauss-Kahn saw a greater role for the IMF's Special Drawing Rights, which is currently composed of the dollar, sterling, euro and yen, over time but said it will take a great deal of international cooperation to make that work."
it will be called 'dyes'
as the dollar dies....how quaint
i'd really like to know how they intend to 'wind down' a trillion in bullshit mortgage debt out of fannie/freddie
"price many middle class Americans out of home ownership"
they tried that in Cali already, i believe,with million dollar two bed homes
a little further fall in the value of the dollar and the average McD's worker will be able to pay cash for his house(unitedcountry.com/see foreclosures section) but need a payday loan to buy food and gas
"how they intend to 'wind down' a trillion in bullshit mortgage debt out of fannie/freddie"
$1.6 trillion in acknowledged debt at Fannie and Freddie with total exposure (ie, potential losses) between $5 trillion and $6 trillion - as the housing crash continues the losses at Fannie and Freddie will climb
removing govt support from the GSEs will accelerate the housing crash since the GSEs create 95%+ of the current mortgage market
"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have exposed taxpayers to $5.4 trillion in risk from loan guarantees"
"WC" = world currency - easy to flush....along with the other fiat toilet paper.
NB you cant flush gold
Wow so all us 'conspiracy kooks' saying its all about bringing it all back up into their dream 1 world govt 1 currency cashless society arent looking so kooky anymore.
"wind down" Fannie & Freddie - can that mean anything other than close?
Also, reduce portfolio 10% per year, sell off loans to other entities?
And now they want to transfer the interest income to the banks and let the people backstop the loans. Nothing new here. If the government wants to run healthcare why does it not want to run the banks? Seems to me we could be saving a lot of bonus and income if we just formally nationalized the banks and shut down the casino.
Agree, (commercial) banks should just be treated like a Utility. They just provide money to people that is given to them by the government (us), they produce nothing. Their income/profits should be capped just like any other utility (water, electricity, etc.). I like the Credit Union model in particular.
We could still have a category for Investment banks or other type of complex financial services (insurance, etc.) so those behaviors (RISKS!!!) can be kept separated (Glass-Steagall? <gasp>). And don't reply with that "we tried it and the banks went around it" crap or the other line "banking clients need a one-stop-shop for all their financial needs". No they don't, they can go to more than one place for their financial needs. Do you go to one place for your groceries and haircut? No, you don't. You go to different places and the world keeps turning.
They are getting ready to legally subsidize the banks, and make TBTF mandated. The heart of the diseased system lies here.
GSE Headfake: Yet More Looting Branded as "Reform"
Silver establishing that nice support for a Big Bottom at $ 30 --- upwards and onwards from there
Mubarak has left Cairo...
Mubarak Flees Cairo for Sharm el-Sheikhhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/11/501364/main20031477.shtml
Next step is occupation of the palace. Storm the gates. El Presidente is no en casa, amigos!
When that happens, it's game over. Muba will never return once the palace is soiled by commoners.
"Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak has left Cairo, according to reports on Friday. A western official told The New York Times that the government is signaling that Mubarak has handed over all power. The Egyptian Armed Forces issued a statement that the military was in effective control of the country -- not Mubarak."
ZH community should pass the hat and offer 100K of The Bernake Bucks to the first Egyptian commoner to drop a DEUCE in the Heliopolis commode
Hmm, the treasury is proposing something that would ultimately lead to higher interest rates...
Don't watch the other hand.
How long until housing bottoms if this gets some backing?
Higher interest rates...should work great for unemployed bankrupt america!
Housing bottoms when the average man can buy one at less than his income. Right now people are paying more for that home than they make. ergo....no bottom in sight.
But with (per timmay this a.m.) larger down payment requirements and higher fees to close, that should make purchasing easier, right???
The report should have read-
Dear Komrade Homeowner,
Please bend over. Just a little more, little more, that's it.
Bad Cop. Good cop. They will make it "harder" to buy a house by taking away the GSE crutch. But by 2012 they will get votes using some type of "powered wheelchair" framework so people can zip around the housing/tax code casino faster. The banks will be fine and the government will keep thier jobs stirring the pot.
Never forget that policy in this country is run by a bunch of C students in Psychology, Communications and Finance. Countries like china and India are run by Engineers and Historians.
The report constantly mentions "affordable" housing for "low and moderate income" families, specifically promoting more multi-family units (construction of rentals) and assistance to targeted groups.
Here comes a false urban housing boom and more subsidies for the poor, benefiting the rich. Middle class, as usual, is kept out of the equation and told to "eat cake and like it."
The system is rigged to make the rich richer, the poor poorer and the middle class slaves to both.
'Affordable housing' all a bunch of central planner commie gobledeegook. America is bankrupted, and no one can afford anything. Get the jobs back to america, make the banks and govt default, enough bubble blowing BS.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
It helps to have a dumbed down electorate, educated by a federal Education (cough-Bullshit-cough) Dept.
+1. Mission accomplished. now we do the rebuilding which will be much more expensive.
During the 1990s the big proponents of the community re-investment act like John Edwards kept thumping the "We all must live together" drum. In Europe, they did the intense muticultural thing. Both initiatives had good motives but were so heavy handed, like war, they destroyed more than they created good.
Now the country is even more bankrupt. We overbuilt housing at the expense of prime, contiguous agricutural land. We trained a huge ammount of people to be homebuilders, sales people and financiers. Many of these people are now out of work and on the UI roles. We may all be living together but we have no jobs and are going to be paying more for food.
And as you mentioned, the government is now going to do what they should have done in the first place, rebuild the infrastructure of existing communities. Meanwhile, the rich like John Edwards and Dodd get to keep thier McCastles they built on/with GSE funded dollars, when they had plenty of money to do it themselves.
William Wordsworth : And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
Not at all Fearless rick.
The problem pumping cheap credit into the bottom end of housing is it lifts prices right up the scale. The unintended consequences of political actions. So people on say $250,000 incomes instead of affording a $500k house escalated to $700k or $1m homes.
It made debt slaves of everyone in the sector, not just the sub-primes. And the politicians should be hung for it
So if GSEs are dead, then I would assume Freddie won't be able to lay a lien on my mortgage that they purchased from the originating back just one week after I signed my mortgage, which they also refused to record at the County Recorders' Office?
Why is it that all of the fuss with MERS not documenting transfer of ownership with mortgages, but Freddie Mac gets a free pass from the press on their neglecting state laws?
Either way, I will post the response from the bank President on my request for them to satisfy the mortgage and remove their lien since the originating bank was compensated in full for my mortgage. The bank President's assistant called to tell me that a response is on the way to my inquiry.
like to know how that goes down....i refied with wells fargo and they sold it to fannie within a week also
how did you find out they didnt record with county?
First, I went to the County Recorders' Office for the county my home resides, actually I called them. Then I asked them for all records as it relates to the note and the deed, as well as any documents related to any transfers. Nothing in the records indicate ANY transfer of ownership.
I then went on to send a request for the note to my lender, along with all transfers. Their reponse indicated that the mortgage was sold and NOT recorded.
Here is a copy of the certified letter I sent to the bank on January 18, 2011. Just two days ago I received a call from the Assistant to the President of the bank stating, "You will receive a written response to your letter within a week." Mention of satisfying the mortgage was made as well. We will see and I will post when available. Below is the letter.
On October 14, 2010, a qualified written request under Section 6 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) was sent to the attention of FIFTH THIRD BANK. In response to the inquiry, two different departments within FIFTH THIRD BANK have indicated opposing views as it relates to holder of the mortgage. One response indicates that FIFTH THIRD BANK is currently the holder of the mortgage and no assignments of the mortgage had taken place regarding the above reference property. This response was received within 60 days of the aforementioned request. In late December of 2010, a second response indicates an alleged assignment to FEDERAL HOME LONE MORTGAGE, as well as written confirmation that no recording of the assignment had taken place - The transfer of ownership is NOT (emphasis mine) recorded so that Fifth Third Bank can continue to service your loan under a servicing agreement with the investor.
This latter response is indicative of the recent widespread failure of securitization industry participants to adhere to statutory law. For example, Ohio Revise Code requires that an assignment must be in writing and recorded. A mortgage may be assigned or partially released by the holder of the mortgage, by writing the assignment or partial release on the original mortgage or upon the margin of the record of the original mortgage and signing it. Also allowed by separate instrument, see code sections 5301.31 and 5301.32. A search of documents at the County Recorder Office, as well as a search of the documents FIFTH THIRD BANK presented in response to the RESPA request indicates no such required recording of the assignment on the original mortgage or through any separate instruments. While it is understandable that lenders, or holders of mortgages or deeds of trust, often assign mortgages or deeds of trust to other lenders, or third parties, appropriate documentation must be provided and recorded in order for the investor to take place of the original lien holder. To effectuate an assignment, the general rules is that the assignment must be in proper written format and recorded to provide notice of the assignment. Once a mortgage or deed of trust is paid, the holder of the mortgage is required to satisfy the mortgage or deed of trust of record to show that the mortgage or deed of trust is no longer a lien on the property. The rule is that the satisfaction must be in proper written format and recorded to provide notice of the satisfaction. If the lender fails to record a satisfaction within set time limits, the lender may be responsible for damages set by statute for failure to timely cancel the lien. There is no document in the record establishing that either the note or the mortgage was assigned to FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE, hence no legal documentation to indicate that the note was assigned. If, as the RESPA response indicates, FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE is the investor on this mortgage and FIFTH THIRD BANK is not the holder of the note, then there is no basis for the claim of continued receipt of the borrowers payments. As such, FIFTH THIRD BANK would not be considered a creditor of this debtor and lacks statutory authority to file a proof of claim on this property. This letter is a formal written request for a Satisfaction of Mortgage so as to remove FIFTH THIRD BANK from the lien position on the mortgage. Please also provide an accounting of all payments paid to the investor listed in the response to the October 14, 2010 RESPA request. Regards,
Very interesting - Thanks for posting.
I sent a note demand and chain of title request to Chase bank mid-Novemeber 2010 and never received a reply. Nothing.
Original mortgage with WaMu, and "transfered" multiple times between then and now Chase.
I have received multiple no-cost refinancing offers from Chase since the request, at the lowest fixed APR available... I am more confident now that they do not have the note.
Next step...? Quit paying first or first try to negotiate a principal cram-down on their part to assign a new (proper) mortgage? Opinions appreciated...
I'd file for quite title (my next step depending on response from 5/3 President), but Chase is now in violation of RESPA rules (not that they give a shit). The bank is required by law to respond to all qualified written requests according to Section 6 of RESPA - http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/ramh/res/reslettr.cfm
And required to satisfy request within 90.
Gathering all of the "paper" ammo that I can. I'll look into quiet title, too.
No problem. It is the least I can do for the ZeroHeadge community. I have to pay back Zerohedge for helping me to become the loon that I have become. No 401K, hoarding physcial silver and gold, challenging every loan I have ever taken, calling congress critters to smash them on their kronyism, petition initiative drives, to a great chain-smoking and drinking habit. I couldn't have done it without you guys.
Krishnamurti: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."Without getting into specifics, let me steer some of you to:
Utah's "Quiet Title Law" Bypasses MERS, Awards Homes Free & Clear
The fact that you got refi offers after submitting that request is proof positive they don't have your note.
I would consult a lawyer about what to do next, or maybe check the website www.loansafe.org, there are some good forums there, maybe someone there can advise you.
Inquiring minds want to know......what is your state of residence?
Ohio indeed. Here is a great resource for documentation requirements as they relate to each state - http://realestate.uslegal.com/mortgage-satisfaction/
By the way, I am not an attorney. I am just a lowly sales person and on am the board of our private company. Thanks to Zerohedge I have been on a quest to source case law as it relates to this and the Utah case quite title was me inspiration after the Show Me the Note campaign. I don't know if I am 100% right or not, but signs are pointing to yes.
"As the market improves"
huge assumption there - presumably based on, well, it always has in the past
Who says it's not going to get worse and worse for another 10 years. The baby boomers have all bought, creating the housing bubble in the first place, and the earlier ones in the wave are starting to sell. There's no-one behind them to buy - not at these prices.
"Who says it's not going to get worse and worse for another 10 years."
Martin Armstrong's cycle work says that the current downtrend in housing will bottom in 2032 which is another 21 years ...
Back stops and guarantees huh?
Man, I need to bring Uncle Sam with me to the casino.
Govt's three options:
1. George Bailey
2 Mr. Potter
3 George Bailey and every shows up at his Christmas party with a couple small bills in time of crisis.
China's response comes in 3, 2, 1...
Remember they already front ran this report saying they should underweight GSE paper a few days ago....
Big deal - the GE model (without the 'S') is growing like fucking cancer...in housing and everything else.
Fannie and Freddie used to be "government sponsered", now they (and all the crap they own) are the government.
Any plans to hold to account the Democrat and Republican politicians and crones of Fanny and Freddy that have made US property a total fuking bomb site?
Any mention of the Govt retards and their fuking political mangling that CAUSED this mess, misery and spun the entire US property market into a Govt caused hyper-bubble??
Any chance Barny Frank and Chris Dodd GO TO JAIL for the $100's of Billions of taxpayers money pissed down the toilet for their abject incompetence if not corruption???
The BIGGEST FARCE/FUK-UP/STINK in world property in history gets wiped under the carpet with not a SINGLE POLITICIAN in that toilet called Washington HELD RESPONSIBLE???????????
The GSE model is dead.
My ass. The GSE model is to subsidise and bail out the banks. The GSE model is alive and well with QE2 flip that bond and other programs which write checks directly to the jp morgue holding company. To quote Shakespeare:
A bailout by any other name would smell as rank...
Any chance Barny Frank and Chris Dodd GO TO JAIL for the $100's of Billions of taxpayers money pissed down the toilet for their abject incompetence if not corruption???
Almost none.
Assbag academic proposes giant nothingburger of reforms. Hinting that the model is dead and there needs to be a reach out to the republicans should be the DC equivalent of discrediting Barney frank. But alas, memories are short
Since the GSE's have been dead for years, they must have smelled the rotting corpses.
Dustbin of History, meet:
Reforming America's Housing Finance Market
The financing part of GSE is dead , but the losses will go on forever. Like you giving an unlimited Amex card to bangdaeho and you getting the bill each month.
The Gov decided to backstop the debt , step into the Tar pit, now they want out of the Tar pit.
"The financing part of GSE is dead , but the losses will go on forever."
that's right - Fannie and Freddie have guaranteed between $5 trillion and $6 trillion in loans - the US taxpayer will eat huge losses from these guarantees
and, the GSEs currently guarantee 95%+ of all mortgages originated so removing them from the market means the market becomes non-existent
the housing crash accelerates dramatically if the GSEs are really removed from the game
Yeah, I don't get this. They think private banks will suddenly step up and start handing out $500K loans to people? Without that support, prices plummet...which would be a good thing for renters and those not planning to sell their homes anytime soon...but would screw the bankers, MBS investors and the house flippers. So, not gonna happen.
Nothing more than a guarantee to insurance companies to jack fees. Fees and a government guarantees so originators can sell loans off to private capital and have no risk. Same abuse that got us in trouble in the first place. This is a privatization program with taxpayers still on the hook.
Have an absolute public auction and sell all inventories on the books and stop interfering with mark to market. Prices would drop and affordable housing would be available to low income housing. Private capital would purchase paper if priced at market without government guarantees.
Eventually we go back to the model of home finance that existed prior to the demise of capitalism in the US circa 1930... re; either pay cash or secure a ~5 year balloon mortgage from your community bank. The gov has no business in the home finance biz...or, any finance biz including backstopping tbtf banks.
And the Fed is off the hook because they recently passed a new rule that allows them to dump all losses on the doorstep of the US Treasury... that would be us.
Slightly off topic... here is a good one from Jesse...
"Financialization Era – how banking welfare captured our economy and ravaged the wealth of the working and middle class. Building profits through financial debt leverage.""Eventually we go back to the model of home finance that existed prior to the demise of capitalism in the US circa 1930"
some analysts claim that most of the increase in housing prices since the 1960's has come BECAUSE of the govt's intervention - all of the govt's meddling in an attempt to make housing affordable has actually caused housing prices to become un-affordable
Fannie and Freddie are supposed to be programs to help low income people purchase housing - the current max loan from Fannie in 'high-cost' areas is $729K - what kind of low-income people are buying houses for $729K???
and there has been discussion inre raising the cap above $900K!!! $900K for low-income housing!!!
Can someone please, PLEASE post the report that shows how increasing Home Ownership has these amazing magical benefits ("positive externalities" for you Macro pin-heads) that JUSTIFY THE ASSOCIATED RISKS? Seriously, a regression output would be fine.
It's clearly a fraud. People simply need a place to live. They can rent, they don't need to own. This whole "affordable housing" garbage was just a way for crooked politicians and their dirty banking buddies to line their pockets.
"all of the govt's meddling in an attempt to make housing affordable has actually caused housing prices to become un-affordable"
yup, no different with student loans/education - the easier it is to finance with debt, the more expensive it becomes.
actually, same could be said for our whole economy.
don't forget how health care costs exploded after the start of medicare and medicaid.
"The GSE model is dead,"
since the GSEs currently guarantee 95%+ of the mortgages originated, isn't this the same as saying, "the mortgage model is dead", which is the same as saying, "the housing market is dead"?
Short, sweet and spot-on analysis.
Let's see if they roll out another derby pig to replace the old one, and how she looks (aka will the sow be wearing lipstick AND mascara?).
Here's who benefits.
James B. Lockhart III assumed the position of Vice Chairman of WL Ross & Co. LLC in September 2009. WL Ross manages $9 billion of private equity investments, a hedge fund and a Mortgage Recovery Fund. It is a subsidiary of Invesco, a Fortune 500 investment management firm.[1] As Vice Chairman, Lockhart coordinates WL Ross' investments in financial services firms and mortgages.
For the prior 7 1/2 years, he served in the US Government in a series of Presidential-appointed, Senate-confirmed positions. He was the Director (CEO) and Chairman of the Oversight Board of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the 12 Federal Home Loan Banks. He assumed that position with the signing of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act on July 30, 2008. He was the Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), which is now part of FHFA. He was nominated to that position by President George W. Bush, a friend of his from prep school, college and business school,[2] and confirmed by the United States Senate in June 2006.
He also served on the Financial Stability Oversight Board from its inception in 2008. This board was set up to oversee the Troubled Asset Relief Program.,[3] which is chaired by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and has as its other members the Secretaries of the Treasury and HUD, and the Chair of the SEC.
To be fair, this report isn't totally terrible, though I too am skeptical it will be implemented. A few points:
a) increase gfees - that makes sense. If they can increase them high enough to take away the govt advantage in retaining credit risk, maybe the TBTF banks will actually retain some themselves.
b) limit fannie/freddie to 90LTV - a good start, but why not all the way to 80LTV, and further pull in their guidelines so all fannie/freddie loans would be considered QRM loans? as it is, there is a lot of debate over QRM, and the talk is that 80LTV will be the max, so why not restrict fannie/freddie to QRM loans? i don't see how it is going to work anyway with some fannie/freddie loans being qrm and others not.
c) portfolio wind down - this should have happened back when Bernanke was buying 1.5T of MBS, why wasn't it? in any case, just have Bernanke buy them - what the fuck is the difference at this point?
besides that the talk about promoting renting, etc was actually good.
too bad all the special interest lobbyists will kill anything decent in the proposal and leave all the bad shit.
80 percent LTV crashes the market, which would be a good thing for people in the market for houses. If you looked closely at the details they are still proposing an implicit government backing. They will end fannie and freddie as we know it to replace them with fannie and freddie in a slightly disguised form.
It's a debt-based, money-mechanics, fractional reserve world, and without credit doled out like free samples of dope, to even the least worthy borrowers, it all comes crashing down.
Ben Bernanke struggles with this vexing dilemna (or he could care less, depending on one's hazard of a guess at his true motives, goals and handlers).
Well if the thing that is ~95 percent of the mortgage market is dead...then what (sarcasm) is the mortgage market?
Oh yeah, private money will replace Ben Bernankestein's money? Really? (and they probably actually KNOW the mortgages are untracable, and thus uncollectable)
Private capital isn't coming back. Not until the securitization fiasco is finished, which of course changes so much, who knows what happens directly after that.
But maybe they'll be like Beatrix and make sure the pension funds sell their gold to buy these potential private money mortgages.
The GSE model is declared dead. Yet the new proposals contain an implicit government guarantee for catastrophic market conditions. Does anyone else see the humor in this?
Quiz: What capital requirement did Peter Orzag think was required for the GSEs in 2002?
Keep in mind, this is the guy who approved Obamacare to go through Reconciliation, because it was going to save money.
Ok, it's Friday. I'm not very patient.
This analysis shows that, based on historical data, the probability of a shock as severe as embodied in the riskbased capital standard is substantially less than one in 500,000 – and may be smaller than one in three million... ... if the probability of the stress test conditions occurring is less than one in 500,000, and if the GSEs hold sufficient capital to withstand the stress test, the implication is that the expected cost to the government of providing an explicit government guarantee on $1 trillion in GSE debt is just $2 million.
Whattdya think... Did anyone sell them 1tn of CDS for $2mm? Imagine that offering protection on that for $2mm?
Orzsag is a criminal.
Of course, government officials hate the CDS market. They don't like it when their risky behavior gets reflected in speads.
"The GSE model is dead". Almost sounds like these guys are trying to think outside the box and that Obama is finally unleashing his administration. Almost.
I'll wait to get my hopes up for that when he has his back against the wall.
Edit: actually I'll wait for that when we all have our backs up against the wall. Like what it took in Egypt.
I'm not sure I trust anything out of DC, especially regarding the GSE's.
Winding down these two black holes would mean housing prices would fall and mortgage rates would rise further.
NCRC has a vested interest in the perpetuation of the GSE's and easy money policy so their comments should be disregarded. We need to move back to the long term home ownership trendline and if that means people have to lose their mcmansions and go back to renting so be it.
People need to buy what they can afford, not what a realtor tells them they should shoot for. People have been conned on housing for too many years.


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Kentucky Poet Laureate Jane Gentry Vance will speak about "Creating the Soul of Kentucky: Kentucky Poems," on Tuesday, Feb. 26.
And then on Thursday, Feb. 28, Amy L. Watts of the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center will address "Progress and Investments in Kentucky Education: How Far Has Post-Reform Kentucky Progressed and What Are Cost-Effective Next Steps for Continued Progress?"
Vance's talk is part of the 2007-2008 Lindsey Wilson Cultural Affairs Series. Watts' talk is part of the Lindsey Wilson Lecture Series on Civic Engagement. Both talks are free and open to the public.
Vance's talk - which is co-sponsored by the Kentucky Humanities Council - will be at 8 p.m. ET in the Lindsey Wilson W.W. Slider Humanities Center Recital Hall.
Former Gov. Ernie Fletcher appointed Vance to serve as Kentucky poet laureate for the 2007-2008 term. As poet laureate, Vance promotes the arts and leads the state in literary endeavors, including Kentucky Writers' Day, which is celebrated April 24 each year, to honor the birth date of Kentucky author Robert Penn Warren, the nation's first poet laureate.
The Kentucky Poet Laureate Program is coordinated and administered by the Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet.
Vance (published as Jane Gentry) was born and raised in central Kentucky, which has deeply influenced her writing. She has a distinguished career blending her work as a poet and as an educator.
Vance is the author of "Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig," a collection of 50 poems; "A Year in Kentucky: A Garland of Poems," a collection of 12 poems; and "A Garden in Kentucky," a collection of 60 poems. Her poems have also been published in notable anthologies and journals such as the Sewanee Review, Harvard Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, the American Voice and Humanities in the South. Among the awards Vance has received are: finalist for the Heartland Review Poetry Prize; the Kentucky Arts Council's Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship for poetry (1992 and 2003); a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship; a Yaddo Fellowship and a Voices and Visions grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association. Vance began teaching at Georgetown College in 1964, where she taught until joining the University of Kentucky faculty in 1972. She is currently a full professor at UK and a member of the English graduate faculty.
Watts' talk will be at 5 p.m. ET on Feb. 28 in the Thomas D. Clark Reading Room of the Holloway Building.
Watts is a policy analyst with the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center in Frankfort.
Created in 1992 by the General Assembly, the Center serves all branches of state government by helping both state officials and citizens better understand trends and forces that affect Kentucky. The Center's work includes research, policy analysis, strategic planning, communications between the three branches of state government, and public outreach.
Watts has and co-authored publications covering a range of topics, including: the future of postsecondary education to health care coverage, the aging population and regional economic growth. Watts' has been an adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky Martin School of Public Policy, and she is currently secretary of the board for the Kentucky Economics Association. Watts has a bachelor's degree in economics from UK and a doctorate in economics from the University of New Mexico with concentrations in econometrics and environmental and natural resource economics.
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If Lyra didn't call you back, what would you do?
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If Lyra didn't call you back, what would you do?
I think this is what ya mean... I'd force myself in the pokeball?
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I just thought of this.. I'd just visit her rather than call her back ;D nya~
...and I thought mine was the best xD nya~
If one pokemon fit Lyra, who would it be? Why?
Pokemon X Round 2
^ Didnt we have that discussion already? I said Gothorita before, nya~
I don't think so. Nya~
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Oh guys! I found this in my sis's bag!
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Apr 3, 2012, 04:51 PM | #1 |
Apple Releases Update to Java for OS X to Version 1.6.0_31
Apple has released an update to Java for OS X, updating Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_31. The update, called Java for OS X Lion 2012-001, "delivers improved reliability, security, and compatibility for Java SE 6". Apple hasn't updated its security page with details of the fixes in the update, but it may fix the vulnerability detailed across the web in recent days. Apple released the same update for Snow Leopard, as well. The downloads can be acquired from Apple's support downloads page, or via Software Update. Article Link: Apple Releases Update to Java for OS X to Version 1.6.0_31 |
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Apr 3, 2012, 04:59 PM | #2 |
Thats good to hear, was a little concerned for a minute
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Apr 3, 2012, 05:10 PM | #3 | |
The security details have just been released via the apple-security-announce mailing list: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2012-04-03-1 Java for OS X 2012-001 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 7 Java for OS X 2012-001 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 7 is now available and addresses the following: Java Available for: Mac OS X v10.6.8, Mac OS X Server v10.6.8, OS X Lion v10.7.3, OS X Lion Server v10.7.3 Impact: Multiple vulnerabilities in Java 1.6.0_29 Description: Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Java 1.6.0_29, the most serious of which may allow an untrusted Java applet to execute arbitrary code outside the Java sandbox. Visiting a web page containing a maliciously crafted untrusted Java applet may lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. These issues are addressed by updating to Java version 1.6.0_31. Further information is available via the Java website at http://www.o racle.com/technetwork/java/javase/releasenotes-136954.html CVE-ID CVE-2011-3563 CVE-2011-5035 CVE-2012-0497 CVE-2012-0498 CVE-2012-0499 CVE-2012-0500 CVE-2012-0501 CVE-2012-0502 CVE-2012-0503 CVE-2012-0505 CVE-2012-0506 CVE-2012-0507 Java for OS X 2012-001 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 7 may be obtained from the Software Update pane in System Preferences, or Apple's Software Downloads web site: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/ For Mac OS X v10.6 systems The download file is named: JavaForMacOSX10.6.dmg Its SHA-1 digest is: f76807153bc0ca253e4a466a2a8c0abf1e180667 For OS X Lion systems The download file is named: JavaForOSX.dmg Its SHA-1 digest is: 176ac1f8e79b4245301e84b616de5105ccd13e16 Information will also be posted to the Apple Security Updates web site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222 This message is signed with Apple's Product Security PGP key, and details are available at: https://www.apple.com/support/security/pgp/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPezVqAAoJEGnF2JsdZQee7gIIALa7b5hVTKL7kOXF7EYT6wjx VnAmxoQbjEwpBkdzPzqqhCQ303/iBdLdHr2O/yxdaX0tFuB+5+4iInPU2t6O+PNh 7iJ3rhQszzIj5q/qGDXyzIQEjurNfvrEKAxQ3T7uj1At+n/9YVBaw8p6i+HopbRc Fo6Jrxy0Qf/MyeGO4lqxht2Aq8omh+pEBNP68EglqrJp/CjZTYGaFAHVGvnm8/gA wjcpIRQBacXcBCJ3K8pZhuQvXhm+GVLWYgc2KGsZ/l7jbQX5Bi67b7CFf7lBHlyd V7ss6N/0T/O3nspdhg+jhnvcaia1Ow3GikC/707NNkM8Dm3lm0DFVMBBgpNvPcU= =Pf96 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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Apr 3, 2012, 05:11 PM | #4 |
Now I feel A lot safer!!
Good News ! Makes me feel safer on viewing a lot of web pages!
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Apr 3, 2012, 05:20 PM | #5 |
Are you getting confused with Javascript?
Java ( applets) isn't used frequently on websites these days.
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Apr 3, 2012, 05:21 PM | #6 |
Just downloaded and installed the update without issue. I wish Apple was a bit more proactive with the security patches, as it seems that Mac users are left vulnerable longer than our Windows brethren.
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Apr 3, 2012, 05:46 PM | #7 |
If you use Xcode and upload apps to the App Store, don't install this Java update yet as it will break uploading to the Mac App Store (possibly iOS also). It breaks both Xcode App Store uploading and Application Loader uploading.
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Apr 3, 2012, 05:58 PM | #9 |
I like that it fixes CVE-2012-0507, which neither MITRE nor NVD list yet... (Yes, I know how CVEs work, it's just funny seeing one patched before it's even public!)
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Apr 3, 2012, 06:29 PM | #10 |
Care to mention the source for this information?
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Apr 3, 2012, 06:37 PM | #11 |
Wirelessly posted
What is java used for |
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Apr 3, 2012, 06:44 PM | #12 |
Confused about Java
I don't see this in my software update. Is it that I don't have Java installed? Is is something you need to install, and doesn't come standard with Lion?
When going to Utilities, I do see "Java Preferences," but when I click it, it says I need Java runtime, and asks me to install. I have been able to go to websites without any problems, so is this something that I need to install? Thanks for all the help |
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Apr 3, 2012, 07:28 PM | #15 |
What is this "Java" thing?
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Apr 3, 2012, 07:32 PM | #16 |
Finally. RE6 gave me no end of grief.
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Apr 3, 2012, 07:33 PM | #17 |
Not sure I am understanding this Java update but when I look in my Safari plug in it still says 1.6.0_29 but when I go to Java app on Lion after updating the Java it says 1.6.0_31 Java update broken?
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It says 188.8.131.52 on my Safari Plugin too but 188.8.131.52 in the Java Preferences.
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Apr 3, 2012, 09:14 PM | #20 | |
...and if you don't have the JRE installed, you won't get a system update for Java. Java is a programming language, it was pretty big at one point, one of the big advantages was that it compiled to an intermediate code that's interpreted, so it allowed for "write once, run everywhere", particularly as a client application. It's also used in backend services, and in fact, we did quite a bit of Java using J2EE (it's an enterprise framework that provides DB/messaging/etc.), also did some client apps (wrote a CMS back in the late 90's, I think it's still in the Sun or Oracle catalog archives). It was easy to distribute Java apps through a web interface, so you got centralized app management combined with a rich client environment. Android apps can also be written in Java which let's them be run on different CPU architectures and such. Since they're run through a runtime interpreter (that's the JRE that's mentioned in the OSX configuration app, Java Runtime Engine), they're [generally] not as fast as native code. There's still some client apps written in it like VPN/remote access apps, and things like the Oracle DB dev tool. It's kind of few and far between for client apps, but still in reasonably decent use for the web (any sites you see running *.jsp are Java based backends). Syntactically C# borrows quite a bit from Java (one reason I went from Java to C#). |
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Apr 3, 2012, 10:14 PM | #21 |
Wirelessly posted
Whats java? |
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Apr 4, 2012, 01:13 AM | #23 |
Was? It still --IS-- the most popular programming language on the planet, with Android and the ENTIRE enterprise market as its main strongholds.
Also, it is more than just a programming language or a simple framework. It is a full operating system-independent software platform. But yes, C# and .NET are nice. And thanks to the people behind Mono, very interoperable with Java.
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Apr 4, 2012, 01:52 AM | #24 |
I'm glad this fix has been released relatively quickly. At this point, I don't care which operating system is more secure. I'm happy with OS X and how it fits into the workflow. The real enemy are those hackers and unscrupulous people trying to steal personal info or whatever they plan to do with their malware.
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Apr 4, 2012, 02:10 AM | #25 |
Wasn't supposed that java would be updated from the manufacturer (aka Oracle) just like in every other OS, for OS X Lion and forth ? Why is Mac version still maintained by apple unlike everyone else ?
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Former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi on Thursday lauded Supreme Court's verdict on IPL betting and spot-fixing scandal and said he was confident of being vindicated.
Former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns on Friday pleaded not guilty to a charge of perjury and to perverting the course of justice in a match-fixing libel action.
The encounter in Arnia sector of Jammu region close to Indo-Pak border finally ended on Friday morning after the remaining fourth militant was gunned down by security forces.Here is an exclusive report.
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Lalit Modi talked exclusively to Zee Media abouth the IPL Spot fixing controversy.
As the Supreme Court resumed its hearing in connection with the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing case, former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi on Thursday said that N Srinivasan can't fool the nation by covering up for his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan.
Suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi on Monday created a flutter by claiming that he was financing Aditya Verma's petition against BCCI President-in-exile N Srinivasan and others in the IPL spot-fixing case.
Former Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi, on Monday lashed out at N Srinivasan and said that all the BCCI members that voted in favour of the latter, must be disallowed or banned to participate in any cricket activity. Modi also stated that IPL franchises Chennai Super Kings and Rajastan Royals must be cancelled from the mega cricket event.
After the Supreme Court disclosed four names on Friday that were probed by the Justice Mudgal Committee during the hearing of the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing case, former IPL czar, Lalit Modi stated all named in the report should be locked up for doing what they did.
New Zealand cricket great Chris Cairns faced fresh legal issues Wednesday with former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi reported to be seeking more than £2.4 million ($3.8m) in damages and costs over a libel case.
It seems there is no taker for Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) directives, at least in Rajasthan. The much maligned BCCI-Lalit Modi feud, which has consumed a sizeable portion of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA), witnessed another installment of obscure politics on Saturday when the all power-full cricket board's call for a disciplinary committee meeting was proved a non-starter.
New Zealand cricket captain Brendon McCullum said on Saturday he will testify against former teammate Chris Cairns in a perjury trial in London next year because he feels a duty "to protect the game".
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