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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (211228)	7/19/2009 11:13:46 PM
From: John Chen	Respond to of 306849

"federal aid cannot be tracked because money given to a bank is like water poured into an ocean. " 'water' ... 'washing' (money) They don't even need to try to cover it up.

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (211228)	7/20/2009 8:57:38 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 306849

Precipice of the Exact Cliff viewfromflorida.blogspot.com After a year or so the real pain will occur when the mid to upper bands are down 40% from where they are now, and the price compression has made the low to low-mid bands much less attractive – the very same bands that are so hot right now. Rents are tumbling (crushing those knife-catcher "investors") and those that bought these properties for investment will be at risk of default (investors have been buying all the way down). Investors have just started to get taken to the woodshed from all of the supply and this will get much worse. Mid-to-upper end rental supply is also flooding on the market making it much better to rent a beautiful million dollar house than putting $300,000 down and buying