Mortgage fraud arrests?按揭诈骗逮捕? The news says hundreds swept up in mortgage fraud . 消息说, 数百名席卷在按揭诈骗 。 Hundreds?数百名? Wow..哇.. amazing but a little late, huh?惊人的,但有点晚,许? Well in a difficult economy it looks like the lawyers will have plenty of business.以及在一个困难的经济,它看起来像律师将有足够的业务。
While it looks like the Feds are finally announcing results of their investigations, it’s not just the mortgage brokers who are being looked at. Hedge funds are also now prime targets for investigation as to their role in the subprime mess.而它看起来像联邦调查局是最后公布的结果,他们的调查,它不只是按揭经纪谁正在研究。 对冲基金现在也主要调查对象 ,以他们的作用,在次级一塌糊涂。 And two former Bear Stearns executives were arrested this morning.和前两熊士坦高管被拘捕 ,今天上午。 Seems at least one of these gentlemen may have been secretly withdrawing his own money from a failing hedge fund while smiling to other investors about how well they were doing.看来,至少有一个,这些嘉宾可能已被秘密撤回自己的钱从一个失败的对冲基金,而面带微笑向其他投资者如何,以及他们在干什么。
After touring southern California last week it was amazing to see how prices have come down.后参观南加州上周这是了不起的,看看如何价格已经回落。 Builders are still building, but are also scrambling to close deals on various houses and subdivisions.建设者仍在建设,但也纷纷关闭交易的各种房屋和区分。 I even saw one sign: “Any Offer Accepted.” They probably left out the word reasonable.我什至看到了一个迹象: “任何提供接受”他们可能遗漏的词合理的。
I talked with several people who were seeing 40% reductions in the valuations of their homes.我所说的与几个人谁看到40 %减少,在估价自己的家园。 They sighed acknowledging that in addition to supply and demand, it was primarily an income qualification issue for how much of a home people can really afford.他们感慨地承认说,除了供给和需求,这主要是收入的资格问题,有多少家的人真的可以负担得起的。 Reality was coming home to roost.现实是未来在家中称雄。
But during the hey day of the real estate boom, it wasn’t just the mortgage brokers leaning towards fraud.但在喂天的房地产热潮,这不仅仅是按揭经纪倾向欺诈行为。 Many speculators and home buyers fudged their applications with exotic loans just to buy a property.许多炒家及置业人士的fudged他们的申请与异国情调的贷款刚刚购买的财产。 Of course the speculation and application fraud is mostly history as more stringent mortgage qualification standards are now in place.当然,投机和应用欺诈大多是历史更严格的抵押贷款的资格标准,现在的地方。 But amazingly enough, mortgage fraud is still a problem across the nation.但令人惊讶的还不够,按揭诈骗仍是一个问题,在全国范围内。
I wonder if there’s any fraud in the oil or refining industry?我不知道如果有任何欺诈行为,在石油或炼油工业的? Well maybe fraud is a bit strong of a word, but how about rampant oil industry speculation ?以及,也许欺诈是一种位强一个词,但如何猖獗,石油工业的投机活动 ?
“As business and consumers consider the implications for them of crude oil selling at US$130-plus per barrel, they should bear in mind that, at a conservative calculation, at least 60% of that price comes from unregulated futures speculation by hedge funds, banks and financial groups using the London ICE Futures and New York Nymex futures exchanges and uncontrolled inter-bank or over-the-counter trading to avoid scrutiny.” “作为企业和消费者考虑的影响,为他们的原油销售,在美国130元加至每桶,他们应紧记,在一个保守的计算,至少有60 %的价格来自不受管制的期货投机的对冲基金,银行和金融集团利用伦敦冰期货和纽约纽约商业交易所的期货交易所和不受控制的跨银行或以上- -柜台交易,以避免在审议“ 。
We’ve been through the dot.com boom and the real estate boom.我们已经通过dot.com热潮和房地产热潮。 If this is the oil and gas boom, does that mean prices will come down later too?如果是这样的石油和天然气的繁荣,这是否意味着价格会回落,后来呢? More importantly, what’s the next boom?更重要的是,什么样的未来繁荣? I’d like to get in on that one…我想获得在对一…
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