{"id":491305,"date":"2010-03-30T21:49:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T01:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/2010\/03\/30\/government-social-security-exit-paper-elizabeth-warren-usg-single-a-greenspan-soros-fix-paco-on-ben-ben-x-2-plosser-summers-make-6-figures-krasting-on-health-insurance\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T21:49:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T01:49:18","slug":"government-social-security-exit-paper-elizabeth-warren-usg-single-a-greenspan-soros-fix-paco-on-ben-ben-x-2-plosser-summers-make-6-figures-krasting-on-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491305","title":{"rendered":"Government: Social Security, Exit Paper, Elizabeth Warren, USG Single A?, Greenspan, Soros Fix, Paco on Ben, Ben X 2, Plosser, Summers, Make 6 Figures, Krasting on Health Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billcoppedge.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"bill-coppedge-dec09-1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bill-coppedge-dec09-1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/billcoppedgedec09139.jpg\" width=\"86\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"original content selection by MortgageNewsClips.com\" border=\"0\" alt=\"original content selection by MortgageNewsClips.com\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/originalcontentselectionbyMortgageNewsClips.com39.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/businessinsider1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"business-insider\" border=\"0\" alt=\"business-insider\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/businessinsider_thumb1.png\" width=\"126\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Whoops, Social Security Just Went Bust &#8211; Henry Blodget<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Social Security will pay out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes this year,<\/strong> the first big milestone on the road to its eventual insolvency.&#160; Thanks to a surge in benefits and a collapse in paychecks, this plunge into the red <strong>comes 6 years faster than the most recent CBO estimate predicted (It had been 2016)<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/social-security-goes-bust-2010-3#ixzz0jBTP1XCk\">Business Insider<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/zerohedge15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"zerohedge\" border=\"0\" alt=\"zerohedge\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/zerohedge_thumb15.png\" width=\"188\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>has 65 page report &#8211; Can Government Exit The Housing Market<\/strong> &#8211; Submitted by Tyler Durden &#8211; Some very useful and surprisingly objective perspectives on the housing market from V.S.Srinivasan, Rajiv Setia and Sandeep Bordia of Barclays.&#160; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/article\/can-government-exit-housing-market\">Zero Hedge<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nyt8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"nyt\" border=\"0\" alt=\"nyt\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/nyt_thumb8.png\" width=\"219\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Warren profile &#8211; Behind Consumer Agency Idea, a Tireless Advocate<\/strong> &#8211; By JODI KANTOR &#8211; Ask Elizabeth Warren, scourge of Wall Street bankers, how they treat consumers, and she will shake her head with indignation&#8230;. Among all the dramatis personae of post-financial crisis Washington, there is no one remotely like Ms. Warren, 60, who has divided the town between those who admire her and those who roll their eyes at her. &#8230; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/25\/business\/25warren.html\">NY Times<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surlytrader.com\/us-government-single-a-rated\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"surly1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"surly1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/surly12.jpg\" width=\"316\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/surlytrader6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"surly-trader\" border=\"0\" alt=\"surly-trader\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/surlytrader_thumb6.png\" width=\"184\" height=\"49\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>US Government Single A Rated? &#8211; Negative swap spreads cannot be a good omen for the financial markets.&#160; &#8230;&#160; that this curve represents the level of interest rate that banks and financial institutions of AA ratings quality are willing to lend to each other at.<\/strong>&#160; If this is the case, the simple fact that US treasuries are trading at interest rate levels that are higher than swap rates would suggest that the US Government has a credit quality that is lower than the AA rated financial institutions.&#160; &#8230; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surlytrader.com\/us-government-single-a-rated\/\">Surly Trader<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/washingtonpost6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"washington-post\" border=\"0\" alt=\"washington-post\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/washingtonpost_thumb6.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Garbage, in one word&#8217;<\/strong> &#8211; Ezra Klein &#8211; James Galbraith is not impressed with <strong>Alan Greenspan&#8217;s defense of his record:&#160; In 66 pages, Mr. Greenspan fails to use the word &quot;responsibility&quot; even once.<\/strong> The word &quot;blame&quot; does not appear. The word &quot;mistake&quot; occurs once; financial firms made them. The word &quot;failure&quot; appears 14 times. None of them are self-referential. &#8230; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/03\/garbage_in_one_word.html\">Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/politico.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"politico\" border=\"0\" alt=\"politico\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/politico_thumb.gif\" width=\"147\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>By GEORGE SOROS &#8211; Reforming a broken mortgage system &#8211;<\/strong> &#8230; What needs to be done is clear: The GSEs\u2019 mortgage insurance function must be separated from mortgage financing.&#160; The former, mortgage insurance, is the legitimate function of a government agency, especially when the private sector has collapsed. A mortgage insurance entity should be run as a government agency.&#160; But mortgage financing should revert to the private sector. This would get rid of a business model that has failed.&#160; There is a proven mortgage financing system already up and running. The Danish model &#8230; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/35030.html#ixzz0jHYJM7W5\">Politico<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bottomviolation.com\/bernanke-wants-to-keep-rates-low-but-treasuries-arent-complying\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"paco1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"paco1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/paco1.gif\" width=\"260\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bottomviolation5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"bottom-violation\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bottom-violation\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bottomviolation_thumb5.png\" width=\"287\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernanke Wants to Keep Rates Low, but Treasuries Aren\u2019t Complying<\/strong> &#8211; Paco Ahlgren \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bottomviolation.com\/bernanke-wants-to-keep-rates-low-but-treasuries-arent-complying\/\">The Bottom Violation<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/washingtonpost7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"washington-post\" border=\"0\" alt=\"washington-post\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/washingtonpost_thumb7.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernanke says Fed is receptive to selling security holdings &#8211;<\/strong> By Neil Irwin &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/25\/AR2010032503606.html\">Washington Post<\/a>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/frbboard.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"frb-board\" border=\"0\" alt=\"frb-board\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/frbboard_thumb.gif\" width=\"188\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Testimony &#8211; Chairman Ben S. Bernanke &#8211; Federal Reserve&#8217;s exit strategy<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/newsevents\/testimony\/bernanke20100325a.htm\">FR Board of Governors<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/businessweek10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"businessweek\" border=\"0\" alt=\"businessweek\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/businessweek_thumb10.png\" width=\"189\" height=\"42\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Plosser Says Fed May Sell MBS Before Raising Rates<\/strong>, WSJ Says &#8211; By Steve Matthews &#8211; The Federal Reserve should consider selling some of its portfolio of $1.25 trillion of agency mortgage-backed securities before raising its target interest rate, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Plosser said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. &#8211; Bloomberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-03-26\/plosser-says-fed-may-sell-mbs-before-raising-rates-wsj-says.html\">BusinessWeek<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/thestreet1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"the-street1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"the-street1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/thestreet1_thumb.png\" width=\"151\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Summers Leaving White House?:<\/strong> Report &#8211; By Eric Rosenbaum &#8211; &#8230;and now it looks like the latest Obama economics team member to be on the receiving end of the unlucky bullet is the head of the White House&#8217;s National Economic Council, Larry Summers&#160; &#8230; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/10712376\/1\/summers-leaving-white-house-report.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEFI\">TheStreet.com<\/a>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/politico1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"politico\" border=\"0\" alt=\"politico\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/politico_thumb1.gif\" width=\"147\" height=\"36\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2,000 House staffers make six figures<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0310\/35050.html\">Politico.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brucekrasting.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/what-healthcare-success.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"bk1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bk1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/bk11.png\" width=\"269\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/brucekrasting3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"bruce-krasting\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bruce-krasting\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/brucekrasting_thumb3.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>What Healthcare Success?<\/strong> &#8211; Bruce Krasting &#8211; You have seen this before so please excuse the personal rant. <strong>Follows is a copy of a notice from my heavyweight health care provider, UnitedHealthcare\/Oxford. Note that at the renewal rate insurance for a family of four now costs $58,600 a year. &#8230;<\/strong> How many people are getting letters like this? Not many. 4-5 million is my guess. &#8230; Disclosure: Long time Dem. Until recently, a district leader for the party. Steady contributor. Pissed. &#8230; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/brucekrasting.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/what-healthcare-success.html\">Bruce Krasting Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=LiFIFMpB5KI:0jT6OPHn6ds:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=LiFIFMpB5KI:0jT6OPHn6ds:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=LiFIFMpB5KI:0jT6OPHn6ds:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=LiFIFMpB5KI:0jT6OPHn6ds:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=LiFIFMpB5KI:0jT6OPHn6ds:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=LiFIFMpB5KI:0jT6OPHn6ds:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=LiFIFMpB5KI:0jT6OPHn6ds:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe\/~4\/LiFIFMpB5KI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Whoops, Social Security Just Went Bust &#8211; Henry Blodget &#8211; Social Security will pay out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes this year, the first big milestone on the road to its eventual insolvency.&#160; Thanks to a surge in benefits and a collapse in paychecks, this plunge into the red comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}