I would like to start by saying that I think many
average Joe’s saw this coming. I came home from work one day in 2005 or 2006
shaking my head. Many people I worked with were constantly refinancing their
homes and using the money to buy bigger homes, travel, buy stuff and generally
live life like they were in Beverly Hills.
I knew what these people made and the math made no
sense. How could they afford to purchase second and third homes on their
incomes? Who was lending them money and how in the world was this sustainable?
I was routinely derided because I took out a standard 30
year home loan, fixed, and refused to purchase anything beyond the formula of
using one third of my income as a mortgage. Lenders with silver tongues
including at least two losers I knew from high school were trying to get me
involved in the sub-prime market.
Well, I never had to sell my house. I didn’t lose money.
I stayed in the black except for about 15 months where my housing value dipped
but has since rebounded. I didn’t have to do anything because blind Freddy
could see that borrowing money you don’t have with a balloon payment due in
five years was all a pipe dream.
And that is what this book is about. It addresses the
scammers from Wall Street who have been robbing people blind and here we are
back in sub-prime land. I am watching families with average middle and working
class incomes buy half a million dollar homes where the combined gross income
of each adult is just over $100,000. I am no genius but…..
This book gets into a lot of detail. The movie explains
it well, the book is dense and I digested it slowly over weeks. But with the
current state of the nation and the same crooks that broke our backs in 2008
now in charge of the White House, this is recommended reading.
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