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Abaddon_Ambrosius  4 stars
Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
Individual Investors Can't Participate In America's Fire Sale On Foreclosed Homes


Article posted:

The federal government is about to dump millions of the foreclosed homes at fire-sale prices to hedge funds and private-equity firms with government connections. If you’re an individual investor who might like to get in on the action, forget it! You’re shut out of this deal.

Homeowners who might be interested in buying the foreclosure property next door? Out of luck. And retirees hoping for a return on their money more than 1.8% on a five-year CD find another avenue closed off.As many as 10,000 properties might be unloaded in a single transaction during the first quarter of 2012 — thanks to a government program so new it doesn’t have a catchy name yet, only the working title “Enterprise/FHA REO Asset Disposition.”

Roger Arnold, chief economist for Pasadena, Calif.-based ALM Advisors, has a different name for it — “the largest transfer of wealth from the public to the private sector.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/uncle-sams-fire-sale-minimum-investment-1-billion-2012-2

 

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Akza  2 stars
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woohoo.

 

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SoBaKi  2 stars
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This is news, why?

 

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Taliesihne  4 stars
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Registered: 2004-2-19 04:47:59
Just curious, but where and when in history has True Capitalism existed?

 

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Abaddon_Ambrosius  4 stars
Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
SoBaKi posted:

This is news, why?



Article posted:

“the largest transfer of wealth from the public to the private sector ever.”



...and you're not hearing even a peep about it on the MSM.

 

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Modeeb  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-4-19 10:48:36
This is a disgrace. We should start peacefully revolting.

 

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Taliesihne  4 stars
Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
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Registered: 2004-2-19 04:47:59
Taliesihne posted:

Just curious, but where and when in history has True Capitalism existed?



Not gonna answer this?

 

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Abaddon_Ambrosius  4 stars
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Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
Taliesihne posted:

Taliesihne posted:

Just curious, but where and when in history has True Capitalism existed?


Not gonna answer this?



I figured it was rhetorical, since we've had this discussion on the board about a dozen times that I recall.

Do you recall the answer from any of the 10 or 12 times I said it before?

 

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Taliesihne  4 stars
Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
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Registered: 2004-2-19 04:47:59
This may come as a shock, but I don't eagerly await your every post and read everything you write.

I'll take that as a no.

 

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Abaddon_Ambrosius  4 stars
Title: Retired Theurgist TL
Posts: 1,674
Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
No, your selective memory, even for threads you've been in before, just sucks.

If you manage to google it let me know.

 

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