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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5694)	2/20/2002 2:06:55 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 33421

whose talking of forgiving loans?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5694)	2/20/2002 8:51:39 PM
From: t4texas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

i have read the literature on the yakuza loans. the articles i have read tell of loans from the banks to yakuza organizations that are bankrupt. the yakuza guys want more loans from the banks to keep the "enterprise" going. the yakuza use all sorts of psychological tools to get the message across to the various bankers. getting pushed in the way of a subway is mentioned often. i have not read any articles where a bank has taken a loan from a yakuza organization. that appears not to have happened. it is too bad that frontier justice is not practiced much in japan, if at all.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5694)	2/25/2002 9:14:16 AM
From: John Pitera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

Some nice FED statistics on Household Debt service burdens. The household debt-service burden is an estimate of the ratio of debt payments to disposable personal income. Debt payments consist of the estimated required payments on outstanding mortgage and consumer debt. the ratio's look relatively stable over the past 20 years: -------------------- federalreserve.gov Household debt-service payments as a percentage of disposable personal income; seasonally adjusted Quarter Total Consumer Mortgage 80q1 13.12 8.72 4.39 80q2 13.14 8.61 4.53 80q3 12.82 8.26 4.56 80q4 12.53 7.96 4.57 81q1 12.47 7.83 4.64 81q2 12.64 7.83 4.80 81q3 12.44 7.64 4.80 81q4 12.49 7.60 4.89 82q1 12.59 7.59 5.00 82q2 12.63 7.57 5.06 82q3 12.54 7.49 5.04 82q4 12.49 7.45 5.04 83q1 12.48 7.44 5.04 83q2 12.46 7.43 5.03 83q3 12.44 7.41 5.04 83q4 12.51 7.46 5.05 84q1 12.56 7.50 5.06 84q2 12.71 7.61 5.09 84q3 12.79 7.68 5.11 84q4 12.99 7.81 5.19 85q1 13.36 7.99 5.37 85q2 13.45 8.02 5.43 85q3 13.82 8.24 5.58 85q4 13.93 8.29 5.64 86q1 13.96 8.29 5.67 86q2 14.07 8.35 5.72 86q3 14.20 8.42 5.78 86q4 14.38 8.48 5.89 87q1 14.09 8.22 5.87 87q2 14.19 8.20 5.99 87q3 13.98 8.04 5.94 87q4 13.79 7.91 5.87 88q1 13.70 7.84 5.86 88q2 13.68 7.78 5.90 88q3 13.60 7.68 5.93 88q4 13.47 7.58 5.89 89q1 13.35 7.52 5.84 89q2 13.53 7.58 5.95 89q3 13.67 7.60 6.06 89q4 13.71 7.58 6.13 90q1 13.52 7.38 6.14 90q2 13.46 7.25 6.21 90q3 13.41 7.17 6.24 90q4 13.41 7.10 6.31 91q1 13.31 6.97 6.35 91q2 13.09 6.77 6.32 91q3 12.96 6.65 6.31 91q4 12.77 6.51 6.26 92q1 12.47 6.32 6.15 92q2 12.27 6.18 6.09 92q3 12.17 6.12 6.05 92q4 11.89 5.97 5.92 93q1 12.10 6.09 6.01 93q2 11.89 6.02 5.87 93q3 11.95 6.08 5.87 93q4 11.84 6.09 5.75 94q1 12.02 6.24 5.78 94q2 11.97 6.26 5.71 94q3 12.10 6.38 5.72 94q4 12.25 6.48 5.76 95q1 12.42 6.57 5.84 95q2 12.71 6.79 5.92 95q3 12.86 6.94 5.92 95q4 12.92 7.04 5.88 96q1 13.05 7.21 5.84 96q2 13.21 7.37 5.84 96q3 13.23 7.41 5.82 96q4 13.28 7.44 5.84 97q1 13.34 7.49 5.85 97q2 13.46 7.58 5.88 97q3 13.46 7.55 5.90 97q4 13.38 7.49 5.89 98q1 13.32 7.49 5.84 98q2 13.37 7.55 5.82 98q3 13.38 7.56 5.82 98q4 13.41 7.57 5.83 99q1 13.53 7.65 5.88 99q2 13.62 7.70 5.92 99q3 13.68 7.69 6.00 99q4 13.78 7.72 6.06 00q1 13.86 7.77 6.10 00q2 13.92 7.77 6.15 00q3 14.04 7.81 6.23 00q4 14.13 7.85 6.27 01q1 14.20 7.94 6.26 01q2 14.22 7.94 6.28 01q3 13.81 7.69 6.12