Friday, October 22, 2010

Foreclosuregate fallout: How bad can it get for Wall Street?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zach-carter/foreclosuregate-fallout-h_b_770359.html

Lol if we're lucky it will burn Wall Street down to the ground because it's that corrupt!


Foreclosure fraud is ruffling a lot of feathers on Wall Street, and while the full scope of losses remains unclear, even major banks are now acknowledging that this is a multibillion-dollar disaster, not just a set of minor paperwork headaches.

So how bad will it get for Wall Street? There are several disaster scenarios in which the housing market simply shuts down, where the potential losses for Wall Street are simply incalculable. But even situations that do not directly rip apart the basic functioning of the mortgage system could be enough to shut down one or more big banks, creating serious trouble for the financial system, and a major test of the recent Wall Street reform bill.