[MD] fyi
MarshaV
marshalz at charter.net
Sun Jul 13 05:55:10 PDT 2008
Been watching.
Some is interesting. What would/will I do? How am I attached? Even, what
is this me that feels some panic?
Daydreaming a few weeks ago of skinning a squirrel. I've never even seen
such an event. Where did such a daydream come from?
Yes, woods, garden.
Compassion.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Perella" <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] fyi
> Here's another fyi:
>
> Last night I heard on CNN about this Indymac bank situation. I had
> heard about it earlier, but haven't made the opportunity to sit down and
> find out any details. I guess the details I was able to hear last night
> are as follows:
> Indymac was allowing homeowners to get mortgages without any back-up
> investments (bear with the noneconomic terms), thus, the homeowners if
> they couldn't pay their mortgage they didn't have any capital to pay back
> the bank. The bank, which is overseen by the gov't (all banks are),
> thought they could just sell the houses to get their mortgage hand-out
> back if need be, well, now the country is in the middle of a mortgage
> breakdown, houses are getting foreclosed, and the market is not a housing
> market. A Senator, not sure who (can't remember), publicly mentioned to a
> committee or something, that this bank, Indymac, had all these
> foreclosings on mortgages within their bank, but the bank couldn't resell
> the houses to break even or make a profit. He, the senator, wanted an
> investigation into this bank before it was too late. Well, now that the
> information was made public, investers heard about this, and pulled money
> out of Indymac and a run on the
> bank happened. It was too late. Indymac then went belly up this week as
> the investors took their money. This is being reported as possibly the
> largest banking closure (loss of money within a bank, unless somebody buys
> the bank and restocks the investors money back into the bank) in U.S.
> history, but much of what is happening is not out yet and people,
> including reporters are trying to investigate. They (CNN) were showing
> pictures of people at the bank doors looking to go in, like so many people
> go to banks across the country, but only found locked doors with signs
> taped to the door about the banks closing, thus, their money lost. Now,
> here's the big hitch on this whole situation. The reporter on CNN was
> talking about how the FDIC, gov't banking insurance company, will only
> back up 100,000 dollars lost in a bank's closing. The immediate impact by
> Indymac's closing is heard to effect 90 other banks across the U.S. - 90.
> So, the reporter said to
> the public on CNN you might want to get any $'s you have over 100,000
> dollars out of the bank so you don't lose that money for these other
> banks, if found out will cause a run, and the ripple in this already
> downward economy will, as we all have figured out by now, disastrous.
> This is very shaky ground, very shaky. Even for the reporter to say this
> is cause for fear.
> Think about the woods. Think about gardens. Hopefully creative
> generative morals are streaming onward shining something helpful.
>
>
> sincerely good luck,
> SA
>
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