2012-10-26nakedcapitalism.com

Team Obama has backed the banks every step of the way, from its failure to use chain of title abuses and obvious tax code (REMIC) violations to pressure banks to do mortgage mods, to its unwillingness to prosecute senior bankers (Charles Ferguson, this blog, and others have set forth legal theories and evidence; the issue clearly is lack of political will), its refusal to undertake anything other than cursory "see no evil" investigations, and its bank friendly measures, from borrower-damaging, "foam the runway" HAMP to a fraud-institutionalizing mortgage "settlement". But DeMarco, by refusing to endorse principal mods for Fannie and Freddie borrowers (which is a peculiarly short-sighted posture) serves an a convenient distraction for the Administration's repeated refusal to take any serious pro-borrower measures.



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