“The loan markets are profoundly distorted…”

June 26, 2006

Karen De Coster and Eric Englund observe:

“The loan markets are profoundly distorted due to the nature of fiat money machinations. Because of this intervention, lending is now dramatically different. It is no longer necessary to know your borrowers. The bank – sustained by its cat-and-mouse scheme of fractional-reserve banking — has a huge incentive to fund the loan, and then sell the loan off to intermediaries who package the loans into mortgage-backed securities. In turn, this toxic junk is sold to mutual funds, insurance companies and other institutions starved for yield. The debt-o-rama grabs hold, and as for the borrowers, there is no longer a fear of debt…”

And what happens to mutual funds? People continuously, and mindlessly pump money into mutual funds. Fund managers can’t simply sit on the cash in the event that there are no sound investments to make. Instead they invest anyways, sending stock prices skyward. So that money that is automatically deducted from your paycheck every week goes into inflating the share value of the stocks which comprise the funds.

That’s kind of frightening.


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  1. KipEsquire June 26, 2006 11:07 pm

    The bank … has a huge incentive to fund the loan…

    The only incentive the bank has is to maximize its profits. And it can only do that by making wise loans. It’s not a “cat-and-mouse scheme” (whatever that means).

    This is the same kind of tin-foil hat thinking that insists that GE has a light bulb that never burns out, but won’t put it on the market for fear of “losing” their profits.

  2. doinkicarus June 26, 2006 11:46 pm

    You mean they don’t have that lightbulb?

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