Re: OT "a leap of faith"


On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:19:19 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."
<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:24:32 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."
<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:07:12 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."
<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think its the impending adoption of strict banking capital standards
recommended by the Basel Accords
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_Capital_Accords).

All of the US banks held their portfolios up against the strict
requirements and realized that much of them won't qualify. So they
started looking around for some patsy to buy their bad paper.

The best patsy money can buy: The Bush administration.

Paulson claims that banks won't lend money unless they can clean up
their portfolios. I think they are playing chicken with us. The number
of credit card and refinance offers I get in a week continue unabated.
That's loaning money, isn't it? The smart banks are busy getting better
loans onto their books, and holding onto them, rather than selling them
into the secondary market. The secondary market is getting pissed, what
with them sitting on a pile of bad paper and now no new product coming
in.

Right now the talks are stymied by Democrat requirements that ACORN be
funded and that union officials have to sit on all mortgage boards ;-)

If for no other reason than pissing you and your ilk off, it'll be worth
the trouble.

Let's hear it for fascism. Hovnanian thinks he'll be part of the
elite. He won't. He's a peasant. Once a peasant, always a peasant
;-)

Sorry, Jim. I missed that last remark. This 'peasant' was out on his
dock checking his yachts' mooring lines.

You'll have to give that up for the "common good" ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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