brainstorming thursday

1. Retail is doing the smart thing selling the phony rally - actually 80 bil. is too low let wallstreet have much more the next weeks - since the FED games may some day prove to be very expensive for taxpayers as they already steal your interest rates with the zero interest rates who only serve the banksters interests.

retail keeps quiting the stockmarket - outflow for 23rd week reaches 80 bil.

2. This foreclosure mess will be clearly the legacy of the Obama legislation and turn out to be very expensive as the GSEs and FDIC are part of this new fraud and stealing scheme and the outcome will be ugly as the lawyers will have the chance to steal whatever is left from now on.

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RealtyTrac Reports Q3 Foreclosures Hit All Time Record... Just In Time For The Plunge

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/13/2010 23:06 -0500

• Cash For Clunkers
• Florida
• Housing Market
• Illinois
• Jim Cramer
• Michigan
• Ohio
• RealtyTrac

Looks like someone may have had a little advance notice on October's foreclosure semi-moratorium festivities. According to RealtyTrac, September foreclosures marked a 5 month high of 347,420, jumping 3% from the previous month and 1% from September 2009, even as the 3rd quarters marked the highest foreclosure activity on record. For the first time in history, bank repossessions (REOs) surpassed 100K, hitting 102,134. Providing some much needed color on what is actually happening in the foreclosure market, James Saccio, CEO of RealtyTrac said: "Lenders foreclosed on a record number of properties in September and in the third quarter, taking a bite out of the backlog of distressed properties where the foreclosure process was delayed by foreclosure prevention efforts over the past 20 months. We expect to see a dip in those bank repossessions — and possibly earlier stages of the foreclosure process — in the fourth quarter as several major lenders have halted foreclosure sales in some states while they review irregularities in foreclosure-processing documentation that has been called into question in recent weeks." And plunge, foreclosure activity will: the 24 judicial foreclosure states most affected by the foreclosure documentation issue accounted for 40 percent of all foreclosure activity in the third quarter and 36 percent of bank repossessions, or REOs. And the worst part is precisely what Jim Cramer thought was going to represent a boost to home prices, confirming just how little the man understand basic market principles: "If the lenders can resolve the documentation issue quickly, then we would expect the temporary lull in foreclosure activity to be followed by a parallel spike in activity as many of the delayed foreclosures move forward in the foreclosure process. However, if the documentation issue cannot be quickly resolved and expands to more lenders we could see a chilling effect on the overall housing market as sales of pre-foreclosure and foreclosed properties, which account for nearly one-third of all sales, dry up and the shadow inventory of distressed properties grows — causing more uncertainty about home prices.” In other words: a complete housing market collapse.