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Countrywide "Rant-Fest" Expected To Continue In L.A.
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Jane Wells is currently a CNBC business news reporter, based in Los Angeles, covering the defense and technology industries. Wells came from CNBC's “Upfront Tonight” where she was senior corresponde |
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] would hurt the public interest under the Bank Holding Company Act. If this hearing is anything like the one in Chicago last week, it’ll be a rant-fest against Countrywide. No one from the Calabasas-based company is expected to show, and the rants most likely wouldn’t stop the Fed from approving the merger. It’s just a chance for people to complain about how they were ripped off by a bad loan.
Here’s what has so far been impossible to determine: how many people were lied to and defrauded into getting a mortgage that was going to financially destroy them, and how many people let themselves be talked into an insane loan because their greed overtook their common sense. It’s not so easy to figure that one out, because if it was, someone would’ve been carried off in handcuffs by now.
CONDOM MAKER’S MARKETING PLOY A BIG STRETCH
And on a completely different topic, www.hotlogo.com is launching a line of condoms branded “In-The-Pink,” and a portion of profits will go toward breast cancer research and awareness. Safe sex AND save lives! The only marketing concept that would be a bigger…stretch…would be if real estate professionals who sold risky mortgages now promised to become foreclosure specialists and donate a portion of profits toward financial counseling. Hahahaha. Oh, wait…
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