Am Ende endlich ein Beitrag, aus dem man logisch nachvollziehen kann, warum das Einfrieren der Hypothekenzinsen Probleme bereiten wird, und wahrscheinlich nicht funktionieren wird.
Das es im Prinzip entgegen aller Vernunft zu den Angebot und Nachfragekräften ist, die die Wirbelsäule der "Kapitalismus" darstellen, wurde ja schon mehrfach erwähnt.
Aber hier wird die praktische Umsetzung in Frage gestellt, da das Einfrieren der Zinsen ja den Veranstaltern, Milliarden an Dollars kosten wird, sodass sie versuchen werden, es nur bei denen anzuwenden oder zu erlauben, die darauf angewiesen sind und wirklich kurz vor der Zwangsvollstreckung stehen (die Foreclosure-Drohung)
Ist schon eine Ironie des Leben, das die Sozialismus durch den Hintereingang Einlass in den Kapitalismus begehrt.
Als ein weiterer Gefahrenpunkt wird die nachlassende Verpflichtung der Kreditschuldner gesehen, ihre Schulden zu zahlen, da verbilligte Zinsen, im Raume stehen, sobald sie es nicht tun. Der sogenannte "moralischer Schaden", der die regelmäßige Schuldenzahlung in Zukunft in Frage stellen wird.
Navarro's Big Economic Picture
aus...http://www.financialsense.com/…ls/navarro/2007/1202.html
.....After a 10% stock market correction, we were “treated” to one of the best rallies of the last few years. Two big factors shaped this rally.
First, the Fed once again proved that the “Bernanke Put” is alive and well. Every time it looks like the economy is headed for the abyss, Bernanke loosens up monetary policy and the stock market eats it up – if only for a few bullish days. For this reason, it is really hard to make any money on the short side even though, in my view, the market is in a downward trend. So, on this reason alone, I recommend a heavy dose of cash in your portfolio until further notice.
The second impetus for the market rally is the most stupid socialistic idea I’ve heard of since that well-known communist sympathizer Richard Nixon slapped price controls on the 1970s economy. This time the proposal is to freeze rates on targeted segments of the sub-prime market.
The sub-prime deep freeze is being sold by bedfellows as strange as Hank Paulson and Paul Krugman as a way to prevent a flood of foreclosures in the coming months as the exploding ARMS reset at substantially higher interest rates. With violins playing in the background, we are all supposed to support this mess so hundreds of thousands of people won’t lose their homes.
Hey, I’ve got as big a heart as anyone, but the devil is always in the details and this particular plan is simply unworkable.
The major reason is that the freeze can’t possibly be applied to all homeowners saddled with subprime mortgages – that’s too costly.
So the proposal is to identify only those people most likely to lose their homes if help doesn’t arrive. Well good luck with that!
Consider that one criterion being floated is to only help people who have already missed a mortgage payment or two?
The obvious problem is how do you distinguish between people in legitimate trouble and speculators who are bailing because housing prices are falling and their gamble just doesn’t pencil anymore.
The bigger problem with this approach is that it creates an even bigger kind of “moral hazard” than the bailout itself. In particular, there will likely be a lot of people who can still afford to pay their reset mortgages who are going to figure out it would be a lot better to miss a payment or two and let Uncle Sam come to the rescue.
My ultimate beef with all of this is the housing bubble itself. For years, I warned about the Fed’s easy money policies coupled with Chinese currency manipulation (which recycles dollars back into US bonds and keeps mortgage rates low) working in league with sleazebag real estate appraisers who would set the price of a house at any level needed for someone to quality for a mortgage – no matter if they had the income or not. And then throw in all the lenders who suckered all these people into exploding ARMS – while you render the immortal words of WC Fields “you can’t cheat an honest man.” And presto, you’ve got a housing bubble sucking the life and capital of the American manufacturing economy.
Well, enough of that rant. You get the picture and it’s an ugly one.
Ja, die Frage ist dann, was passiert als Nächstes?