How's that vein in your forehead? Poppin' fresh? No? You're happy ?! Well that won't do at all! Here, read this story about how Wall Street firms are furiously buying up cheap homes, renting them out, refusing to treat infestations of vermin, threatening legal action against renters for things that aren't their fault, and (of course) bundling monthly rent payments to sell as can't-miss securities.
I meant to comment earlier that lisawines&#039;s comment did not require a tin hat. I don&#039;t necessarily think that the real estate crash was planned, but I have no doubt that folks were laying plans to profit from the price collapse within microseconds. (Shit, <b>I</b> thought about it).
they already have- between the check cashing places and the title loan places and the overpriced grocery markets in food desert areas and the plethora of convenience charges and fees on everything including SNAP payments, they manage to bleed the homeless dry just fine
Don&#039;t worry, they&#039;re shorting those securities as fast as they sell them with ol&#039; reliable credit default swaps. What could go wrong?
Release the Warren!
Not that it will make much difference but this is the sort of thing Elizabeth Warren was made for.
I meant to comment earlier that lisawines&#039;s comment did not require a tin hat. I don&#039;t necessarily think that the real estate crash was planned, but I have no doubt that folks were laying plans to profit from the price collapse within microseconds. (Shit, <b>I</b> thought about it).
Charlie don&#039;t serf
All I can say is that if anyone, anywhere, is relying on money from me...
They are truly fucked.
or a politician
(yes, that&#039;s being redundant)
too bad it&#039;s a lone voice in the wilderness on Capitol Hill
Whoever thought up the term &quot;rent-seeking&quot; probably didn&#039;t mean it to be taken quite so literally.
<i>sigh</i> Business majors.
When did life become a Dickens novel?
It is kind of like making bricks with your own shit.
maybe it&#039;s time for main street to corner the market on torches and pitchforks
they already have- between the check cashing places and the title loan places and the overpriced grocery markets in food desert areas and the plethora of convenience charges and fees on everything including SNAP payments, they manage to bleed the homeless dry just fine
Soylent Spot
Well, they did have to go beg for money from their own employees in Congress and the Fed. That hurt a lot!
Don&#039;t worry, they&#039;re shorting those securities as fast as they sell them with ol&#039; reliable credit default swaps. What could go wrong?
Not to mention slaves. It&#039;s taken almost a century to fix that error.