Bank seizures of US Homes Surge by 90% As Borrowers Hit by Adjustable Rate Mortgage Resets

By: Money_and_Markets

Martin here with two news items I want to bring to your immediate attention.

First and foremost, talk on Wall Street yesterday that the housing market "may be bottoming" is a bunch of hooey.

The reality is that bank seizures of U.S. homes just surged 90% in January compared to a year ago.

The main reason: Homeowners failed to make the higher payments on massive amounts of adjustable-rate mortgages that are resetting at higher rates.

Why this is not the bottom: Another $460 billion in these mortgages are scheduled to reset this year alone!

Meanwhile, sales of existing homes have just fallen to their lowest level in nearly a decade. And just a few minutes ago, Standard and Poor's announced that U.S. home prices plunged 8.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007, the largest drop in the index's 20-year history!

Look: If this crisis were limited to a certain geographical region, it would not be so traumatic. Or if it were happening in a largely debt-free society, it would also not be cause for great alarm.

But the fact is we're witnessing a nationwide decline in the value of the largest asset owned by hundreds of millions of Americans who are up to their eyeballs in debt .

Of course the folks at the Fed aren't taking this lying down. They're pumping money into the economy like there's no tomorrow. And they're getting ready to cut interest rates again next month, trashing the value of the U.S. dollar and driving counter-dollar investments flying.

That leads me to the second important piece of news I want to share with you: Mike Larson and I are getting ready to take action:

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 Get a large chunk of your money to safety!

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Best wishes,

Martin

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