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Shadowproof’s Dan Wright and journalist David Dayen discuss his book, Chain Of Title (Original Post)
midnight
Jun 2016
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Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud
kadaholo
Jun 2016
#1
I second your Jeebus…. Another tough one to watch, but alot of name dropping and
midnight
Jun 2016
#3
Is the person responsible for foaming the run way also responsible for that quote?
midnight
Jun 2016
#5
kadaholo
(304 posts)1. Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud
Dayen follows three Florida homeowners as they discover that banks have been lying about signatures. Lisa Epstein, a nurse, learns that the bank foreclosing on her, the one at the end of the securitization daisy chain, could not prove that it had legally obtained her loan. When she challenges the bank in court, its lawyers present a document dated three months after she was served with foreclosure papers a poorly drafted cover-up, Dayen writes. She meets Michael Redman, a car salesman who had a similar experience, and persuades him to publish an online guide to uncovering mortgage fraud. The two of them connect with Lynn Szymoniak, a lawyer, who investigates the signatures in her own foreclosure action and finds one with a date when the signer was actually in state prison.
Exposing those lies becomes a moral crusade. The homeowners stories are emotional roller coasters, which Dayen meticulously reports. He and his characters find the banks behavior not just indefensible but criminal. Prepare to be surprised, and angry.
Dayen skillfully narrates a slow reveal and sprinkles in some lively metaphors. Alan Greenspan viewed regulations the way an exterminator viewed termites. A bank pursuing foreclosure without legal signatures was flailing away like a boxer in the dark.
But this book is noteworthy for a more fundamental reason. A free-market system works best when people can prove they own what they think they own. Otherwise, our confidence is undermined and policy options in a crisis are limited not to mention unfair. Banks took advantage of the fact that nobody knew who owned what. And their eagerness to cut corners precluded an idea that could have saved millions of Americans from foreclosure.
Book Review by Frank Partnoy http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/books/review/chain-of-title-by-david-dayen.html
Exposing those lies becomes a moral crusade. The homeowners stories are emotional roller coasters, which Dayen meticulously reports. He and his characters find the banks behavior not just indefensible but criminal. Prepare to be surprised, and angry.
Dayen skillfully narrates a slow reveal and sprinkles in some lively metaphors. Alan Greenspan viewed regulations the way an exterminator viewed termites. A bank pursuing foreclosure without legal signatures was flailing away like a boxer in the dark.
But this book is noteworthy for a more fundamental reason. A free-market system works best when people can prove they own what they think they own. Otherwise, our confidence is undermined and policy options in a crisis are limited not to mention unfair. Banks took advantage of the fact that nobody knew who owned what. And their eagerness to cut corners precluded an idea that could have saved millions of Americans from foreclosure.
Book Review by Frank Partnoy http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/books/review/chain-of-title-by-david-dayen.html
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)2. Jeebus - Is there ANY doubt as to how we've turned into the oligarchy now?
Kicking so that we have no excuse but to WATCH THIS!
Better yet, I think I'll actually buy the book as to how this "democracy" checked out with the people "in place" to control message of the fraud. We've been discussing this since DU began, yet there are people who call out with distain the ONE ISSUE of Wall Street?
Open up your tired eyes, people.
midnight
(26,624 posts)3. I second your Jeebus…. Another tough one to watch, but alot of name dropping and
how they shapped the disaster so many are victim of
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"foaming the run way" with home owners so that the banks don't have to take responsibility for their mess.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)4. I know who made it easy to foam the runway...
The same person who won't share transcripts from the $225,000 speech, but admitted at NASDAQ headquarters in 2007...
And certainly borrowers share responsibility as well. Homebuyers who paid extra fees to avoid documenting their income should have known they were getting in over their heads. Speculators who were busy buying two, three, four houses to sell for a quick buck dont deserve our sympathy.
midnight
(26,624 posts)5. Is the person responsible for foaming the run way also responsible for that quote?