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Subprime mortgages, financial crisis and real economy

November 17th, 2008

That subprime crisis had an impact on real economy could imagine, but dared not speak. After the failures of banks and layoffs, it is up to the real estate and automotive.

In California, Mountain House, a town where 90 percent of homes worth less than the loan to be paid every owner has debts of at least 122 thousand dollars more than the value of the property.

Very striking fact, many of the people, according to the loan I, will be forced to pay an installment in 2015 an incredible 12 thousand dollars a month.

The CEOs of General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler have asked Banking Committee yesterday the U.S. Senate a plan to save the car.

The summits of the ‘Detroit Three Sisters’ rise to Capitol Hill to ask for immediate help, without which their survival is at risk. Explain to the Senate Banking Committee that the failure of one of the three companies could lead to a systemic risk.

Richard Wagoner: Here’s what the ad for General Motors, Richard Wagoner:

The damage to the economy would be far worse for that we need. It is not just to save Detroit: to save the U.S. economy, even at risk because there are 3 million jobs since the collapse of one of the trigger a domino effect.

In Europe the level of crisis that exists in America has not yet been felt, but let us not forget that situations of alarm have not spared the German bank IKB el ‘English Northern Rock.

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Citigroup: layoffs to 5,000, yet subprime mortgages

November 10th, 2008

The tension in the U.S. credit market has peaked with the outbreak of defaults on subprime mortgages.

The subprime loans, which in previous articles we discussed, are loans granted to customers as “high risk”. They are called subprime loans because of their greater risk and subject to which the creditor.

The problem was a result of loans granted to persons insolvent. But who are these? In a few have mentioned that it is precarious.

A mortgage given to these workers is a mutual risk and being such, to cushion the risk, banks have securitized and sold as securities.

If most workers are precarious, the banks were forced to provide loans to precarious. This explains the speculative bubble of subprime: the precariousness of work and inadequate labor policy.

This is a dog that bites its tail, because the work becomes due and also to the crisis: the U.S. banking group Citigroup wants to cut up to 50 thousand jobs, reducing the number of employees to 300.

All this was reported by CNBC television station, that the ceo of the Group, Vikram Pandit, has decided to implement a blockade of the turnover and redundancy measures that cover all sectors and geographical areas of activity of the bank.

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