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Don't blame Bush he's just a patsy and the party isn't over it's just begining?

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Real Estate Agent with HI Pro Realty LLC RB-21531 RS-76763

America has been duped!

The United States has a fractional reserve banking system, in short our banks can lend out 9x more money than they actually have in assets. So lets say your the bank and you loan out money, collect interest, and presumably make money. That's only half of it, imagine now as a bank you can get rid of the debt you hold in the form of mortgages and exchange it for cash now, not only do you not have to wait around for home owners to pay back the loan (the secondary market takes care of that) you get 9x more money than you actually have risked; making money from the borrowers intent to pay.

Let me explain, you have $1000 dollars in your vault. Government regs say you can loan out up to 9x more money than you have in your vault for a total $10,000.  So you loan out the entire 10,000. Once a loan is signed by the consumer it has become legal tender and can be traded for US currency. Meaning simply that once mortgage loans are signed, bundled and sold on the secondary, you have essentially exchanged debt for cash. 

Through government deregulation of our Banking system we have allowed into existence a monetary system where money, both paper and digital, is created by banks not the Federal Government as most people think. By a consumer simply promising to pay a arbitrary number you have created the equivalent in cash. Our Wall Street banking buddies co-joined with Freddie and Fannie have been building wealth in bundles by offering home loans to just about anybody and you wonder why? Now imagine pumping an additional $700billion into these same financial institutions.

It's the Fed's Absolutely Fabulous money making machine. Where any cave man could operate the helm of this monstrous fleecing device applied to the backs of American consumer cud chewers. Unfortunately the complications that arise from this system is mind boggling. Please watch this video in it's entirety, perhaps it will illuminate what appears to be udder lunacy.

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Janna Scharf
Keller Williams Realty Coeur d'Alene - Coeur d'Alene, ID
Coeur d'Alene Idaho Real Estate Expert

Have to admit that I don't have 47 minutes to watch the movie in it's entirety.  But I will admit that these are some straaaaange times we're living in.

Sep 24, 2008 06:52 PM
Connie Tebyani
Platinum Home Staging, Inc. : RESA-Pro - Calabasas, CA
Platinum Home Staging, Los Angeles and Ventura County

Sorry, Kimo, I completely understand your point.  However any 47 min. of free time I have I'm going to spend cuddling w/ my kids =)  Is there a shorter, condensed version?

Sep 25, 2008 01:50 AM
Kimo Stowell
HI Pro Realty LLC RB-21531 - Honolulu, HI
REALTOR Associate® RS-76763 - Honolulu Hawai'i

Aloha Janna & Connie, I agree the movie is a little hard to digest, but if the current US financial crisis is making you nauseous it will help you understand just how crazy our banking system is; how our government has been in cahoots with it's perpetrators; and why our consumer based economy is on the verge of collapse. This film was made several years ago and goes into great detail outlining what is happening now to our financial system. Please take the time to watch it, it's worth it.

 

Sep 25, 2008 08:40 AM
Randy L. Prothero
eXp Realty - Hollister, MO
Missouri REALTOR, (808) 384-5645

In the end they will make Government bigger.  The folks that created this mess, will now take more of our money and tell us how they will save us.

Sep 25, 2008 04:57 PM
Kimo Stowell
HI Pro Realty LLC RB-21531 - Honolulu, HI
REALTOR Associate® RS-76763 - Honolulu Hawai'i

Aloha Randy, for our present system to function you need exponential growth with exponential debt to keep the system running. It's insanity that we as Americans tolerate it, and we allow our government to pretend they don't know whats happening.

Sep 26, 2008 07:12 AM
Melissa Marro
Keller Williams First Coast Realty - The Marro Team - Orange Park, FL
Jacksonville Real Estate and Home Staging

Kimo - I think the graphic alone sums it all up.... I will come back to watch the video, but as it is almost 1am my time I think it might not be good for restful sleep.... more like nightmares.... thanks for sharing.

Oct 04, 2008 04:57 PM
Terrylynn Fisher
Dudum Real Estate Group - BuyStageSell.com - Walnut Creek, CA
HAFA Certified, EcoBroker, CRS, CSP Realtor, Etc.

Ok Kimo, tell us what you really think.   This is an interesting observation of the situation actually, and wondering how it will all pan out.  We really don't have control, just in this for the ride.  Thinking as positvely as possible for our country and our economy.

Oct 04, 2008 05:24 PM
Kimo Stowell
HI Pro Realty LLC RB-21531 - Honolulu, HI
REALTOR Associate® RS-76763 - Honolulu Hawai'i

Aloha Melissa, as powerless as we sometimes feel we need to remember that everthing can be changed.

Aloha Terrylynn, we need to eliminate the fractional reserve system and take government away from the bankers and corporations who are accountable only to their profit margins.

Oct 05, 2008 10:57 AM
Melissa Marro
Keller Williams First Coast Realty - The Marro Team - Orange Park, FL
Jacksonville Real Estate and Home Staging

I think your commentary is very insightful.  I wish that more Americans had the conviction and intelligence that you have shown in your financial series here.  So many people don't bother to educate themselves and just follow the status quo.....

Oct 05, 2008 12:28 PM
Kimo Stowell
HI Pro Realty LLC RB-21531 - Honolulu, HI
REALTOR Associate® RS-76763 - Honolulu Hawai'i

Aloha Melissa, You will never hear anyone on television or in the mainstream media talk about what I've mentioned. Our media in the US is hopelessly controlled and biased, our government is master of ineffectual nonsense, and the US public is preoccupied with Sports, Television, and the world according to FOX and CNN.

There is simply far to much money to be made from our collective ignorance for the system to change itself. We as individual citizens are the only ones that can do-it.

Oct 06, 2008 10:34 AM
Everard Korthals
---Preferred Lifestyle Advisors--- - Lancaster, PA
Mountain Realty

Great article Kimo, the video is a bit long for me (at this moment) but i've bookmarked this post and plan to revisit it when i have more time. For those who are blaming bush for this and everything else that's happened over the past 8 years, don't forget that clinton was the one who signed the deregulation bill. This was bound to happen no matter who was in office.

 

Oct 09, 2008 12:11 AM
Kimo Stowell
HI Pro Realty LLC RB-21531 - Honolulu, HI
REALTOR Associate® RS-76763 - Honolulu Hawai'i

Aloha Castellum, When it comes to our banking system both parties are up to their eye balls in complicity. Greed seems to be the only bi-partisan activity that congress fully embraces.

Oct 09, 2008 06:46 AM