redsamurai
Banned
lol...started by me...good one.
yeah actually it was....
anyway, my last two cents in this post...here's a response from another friend of mine who's out in SF working for BoA...
"At every level there were fees that were paid out...anywhere between 250-750 bucks a pop....when I was at Wells the initial fee alone was 500 for an approved app its usually an origination fee to start....underwriters get a piece of that...remember too that this where Fannie and Freddie get inot the mix...Fr and Fan baought mort on the secondary market in total they bought 1 in 2 of all new morts..for a total of 5 trillion dollars in face value morts (the paper is no longer worth anywhere close to that)...those morts are insured by the fed gov so even if they're shit the bank that sold the mort to freddie gets a kick back fee...freddie gets an origination fee...if the loan goes inot the shitter..the tax payer pays the bill...for the foreclosure part fees were alos generated much the same way...Tom Woods as a great book on all of this...but they all knew how it worked and they were all getting paid...it was a total scam..."
In the end it was the usual utterly corrupt collusion between the govt (really the fed) and free market but that wasn't the issue here. You claimed that banks weren't making out on this scheme. That is utterly woefully inaccurate and something tells me you know it.