Capture The Recession: Everything On Sale (SLIDESHOW)

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[FrenchWarHero]

It has all been said but I just can't believe the clowns in here that would hand these guys responsibility for their health and ultimately their LIFE.

[Tperl]

Blame the banks. China's stimulus package is working because their banks lent money. Our banks increased their fees to make money instead of loaning money.

[wonketteRAWKS]

Offering "something" even though it does "nothing" is the reason why healthcare must be debated and handled thoroughly and not rushed.

[purplepatriot]

I got a loan modification after a 30 minute phone call to Citimortgage. It was very easy with no out-of-pocket cost. The reduced interest rate cuts my monthly payment by about $420. The program seems to work very, very well if the lender is respectable. Thanks to Obama and the Democrats!

[FrenchWarHero]

You gotta love free money but don't thank Obama and the Democrats. Thank the rest of us in here - I think we're paying for it.

[VikingQuest]

Shocking . . .

Government program & waiting?

[piloto]

I have a BofA Freddie and the turds won't modify. Thanks Angelo and barney Frank

[hotwire]

You guys haven't seen anything yet. Better buckle up, cause it's gonna be a rough ride to the bottom.

[hypnotoad72]

And when that happens, expect the media to glorify it too. Sickening.

[1sparrow]

jesus was a socialite

[Protea32]

jesus was a socialite

He was one of the idle rich, knocking about with the other rich and famous, drinking gin and tonic's, etc.?

[kesiac]

You mean like Paris Hilton.

[Protea32]

Or the Dos Equis guy. Stay thirsty

[viper234]

Mortgage lenders are taking their sweet time with modifications because they want to see upticks in interest rates. It's to their benefit to do everything as slowly as possible. They don't give a damn about struggling families who have lost income due to job cuts. Barney Frank is a joke. Instead of slamming these mortgage companies, he's telling them how many more modifications he wants to see them get done by November, and then he's only talking about 500,000. Record unemployment, rising unemployment into 2010, a "jobless recovery" expected and this is the best they can do after receiving hundreds of billions in taxpayer funded federal bailout money? I get the impression the federal government wants to see more familes out on the street, so that the same banks that sank the economy can scoop up these homes after foreclosure, sell them at auction and pump up the "home sales" figures to give the markets something to go higher on. What a scam.

[1sparrow]

peresphone gee you make sense

[toinfinityandbeyond]

The program was a bust from the beginning. It was obviously of greater interest to bail out his contributors on Wall Street than it was American home owners. No wonder Barney Frank stated last week that if the banks didn't come up with another 500,000 modifications by Nov 1st, Congress would put in place the cram down option for bankruptcy courts. Like I said. Too little too late as there are currently 14,000 foreclosures taking place a day. You have to wonder how bankers can sleep at night while others live in tent cities?

[VikingQuest]

"You have to wonder how bankers can sleep at night while others live in tent cities?"

The tent cities you saw on the news . . . those were there long before the recession even started, those were dunbunked long ago.

[lib liberal]

The disconnect between the problems facing main street and Washington keep widening. For the past 6 month's we're nothing but talk of regulation, but zero action. What a joke.

good articles... http://www.iamned.com

[PhilipTaylor]

WHO K1LLED MA1N STREET?

Bush+Obama+FED have given the Wall Street Banks

$237,000 from every Family in America!

[PhilipTaylor]

$7,000,000 More to be taken from every American Family!

Yes! ($700 TRILLION in T0XIC Derivatives) / (100 Million Families) = $7 Million per family!

We must stop them!

Federal Agency, the 0ffice of Comptroller of the Currency, 0CC, issues a quarterly Report that has the following info:

1 JPM0RGAN $81TRILLION in Toxic Derivatives
2 BofA $78TRILLION
3 G0LDMAN $48TRILLION
4 M0RGAN $39TRILLION
5 C1T1GROUP $32TRILLION

http://www.occ.gov/ftp/release/2009-72a.pdf
Page 23!

[loki]

everything is on sale, with the exception of the things people need to live. Food and energy are the to things rising in price faster than ever before. The wonderful Ameren electric company is raising its rates 18% now, gas prices are rising about as fast as they did just 2 years ago, city water and sewer, trash pick up, natural gas ect... But things we can really live without... sure they are dropping some, they dont have the luxury of being a necessity. Oh, and dont forget that when the Ivy greed economist and Gov figures inflation, they remove energies and foods stuff from the figures. So of course inflation is stagnant and even shrinking, Sounds better than the truth.

[Carolab]

Not really. I am pricing out many things right now to repair a home I just bought that needs work. I don't see these huge savings being touted.