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The book is an analysis of the controversial Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and explains in easy to understand language what the bailout bill means for individuals. $700 Billion Bailout answers questions such as:
  • What does the bill say, exactly?
  • Who is making decisions about how the $700 billion will be spent, and what does it mean now that the government is investing directly in our banks?
  • Who’s footing the bill?
  • What is the impact on homeowners, businesses, retirement, and taxes?
  • Where do I put my money in the meantime?

Veteran reporter Paul Muolo shows both the challenges and opportunities of the credit crisis and proposed bailout, including its impact on:

  • Mortgages: While rates may be lower, there will be more fees imposed on mortgages. Lenders will be far more cautious in lending, and people who cannot meet their mortgages are likely to lose these homes. This may create a “contrarian” plays in foreclosures and vacation homes..
  • Stocks and Other Investments: Is now the time to get into the stock market or is it safer to stick with CDs, bonds, and gold?
  • Taxes: With the tax breaks, there will be less tax revenue leading to a huge shortfall to the government over the next few years.

He will offer insight into these areas and many others, including how the structure of the bailout bill allows for unprecedented authority that has altered the financial landscape, perhaps permanently.   Will the plan work, and how we can prevent this from happening again remains to be seen, but with $700 Billion Bailout Paul Muolo gives us a critical tool for deciphering perhaps the most sweeping piece of legislation since the Patriot Act.

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Is America a sinking ship? With the economy in the midst of crisis, the United States government has approved an unprecedented $700 billion bailout of the battered financial industry.

$700 Billion Bailout is an analysis of the controversial Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and explains in easy to understand language what the bailout bill means for individuals. The bill, described as the $700 billion bailout . . . and $110 billion in tax breaks, will include tax breaks shielding millions of taxpayers from the alternative minimum tax this year, increase FDIC insurance for bank deposits from $100,000 to $250,000, and provide support for Wall Street's floundering financial institutions. But what does this truly mean for people on Main Street?

The book provides understandable analysis of the bill's provisions and offers "to do" and "not to do" steps on how the bailout bill impacts individuals. Whether the plan will work, and how we can prevent this from happening again remains to be seen, but with $700 Billion Bailout Paul Muolo gives us a critical tool for deciphering perhaps the most sweeping piece of legislation since the Patriot Act.

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  • Paperback: 188 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; First Edition edition (December 10, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470462566
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470462560
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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2.0 out of 5 stars Biased Assessment & Half the book is reprint of EESA Law, August 7, 2009
By Local Wonk (Acworth, GA) - See all my reviews
I read the book and was displeased with the author's assertions that the mortgage crisis was caused by Wall Street greed. Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac were largely exonerated in his book from any culpability other than the fact that they bought subprime mortgages from lenders without proper oversight as to the quality of the underlying loans. However, even in that assessment his states that Fannie & Freddie did so because the credit default swaps that backed up the mortgages insured them against default and were supposed to reduce the risk. To this extent, Moody's, S&P and Fitch were able give good ratings to poor quality loans because of the insurance backing by AIG and other companies involved in insuring credit risk. In short, Fannie & Freddie were victims of the subprime mess not catalysts for it. Also, the author completely ignores the biggest culprit in this calamity: the Federal Government.


What's wrong with the author's assessment? Here goes:

1. Why were subprime mortgages even offered in the first place? In 1977, President Carter signed into law the community reinvestment act which began to issue ratings, CRA ratings, based on how lending institutions issued loans to low-income areas. At face value, the act sounds good as it was believed that lenders discriminated against people of color. Lenders were not compelled to lower their lending standards to issue loans to minorities or high-risk areas (crime ridden low-income areas).
2. During the Clinton administration in the 1990s, the CRA ratings of lenders took on a new dimension. If the rating was not high-enough, the bank would not be authorized to open new branches, or merge or acquire other banks until the CRA rating increased. This effectively put force of law to the CRA rating and banks naturally began to view loans to otherwise (credit) unqualified people as a cost of doing business. Voila! You now have the subprime mortgage sector created.
3. In 1999, President Clinton signed into law allowing lending institutions the ability to securitize these mortgages and the SIV or structured investment vehicle was born. By 2001, SIVs were now responsible for billions in securitized mortgages. It was during the latter 90s and early 2000s that Wall Street greed now takes these products to the next level.
4. From 2001-2006 over two dozen legislative attempts were made by President Bush to toughen regulation of Fannie & Freddie given that they too held trillions in debt and were also securitizing the underlying loans and selling them profitably using their status as a GSE (government sponsored enterprise) to sell them abroad under the cloak of backing by the Federal Government. As early as 2001, President Bush stated that the trillions in poor-quality loans held by Fannie & Freddie had the ability to turn the economy into deep recession if defaults of those loans were to increase. Each substantive legislative attempt was thwarted by filibuster by the Democrats. Rep. Barnie Frank was Fannie/Freddie's #1 recipient of campaign cash - he now chairs the house banking committee. Sen. Chris Dodd was Fannie's #1 recipient of campaign cash - he now chairs the senate banking committee. Sen. Hillary Clinton was the #4 recipient. Sen. Obama was Fannie/Freddie's #2 recipient of campaign cash. In fact, the top recipients of Fannie/Freddie's immense political clout & cash were all democrats.
5. In 2004, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan encouraged Fannie/Freddie to securitize their loans further because Credit Default Swaps (CDS) reduced the underlying risk.

This major problem was the result of government (Congress, Presidents, & Federal Reserve) interference which came as a result of their intention to implement "fairness" into the private sector. It is completely wrong of the author to blame Wall Street as if they operated in some sort of vacuum. This was the doing of the Federal Government.

Did the author mention any of the points I just now made? No, not one of them. He covers the $700 billion bailout in good detail but his huge omissions underline his bias: free pass to government & progressives responsible for this fiasco.

Lastly, the book is roughly 160+ pages long. The first 83 cover aspects of the $700 billion bailout and how it relates to us in the author's assessment. The remaining half of the book is a reprint of highlights of the bailout bill. He could have simply made that a PDF download or included a link to that on the internet. It was really a waste of paper and slight of hand to make the book appear to cover more detail than actually is covered.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A helpful outline of a monstrous problem that nobody seems to fully understand, January 25, 2009
By andris virsnieks (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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Paul Muolo provides a clear and apparently fair and balanced explanation of how it would have been practically impossible for the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the banks to inflate the housing bubble to such a monstrous size if Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch hand not inflated their ratings on all those mortgage bonds. But how big is the bubble? On page 50 the author estimates that homes mainly in the southwest and Florida could lose 50 percent in value. What about the rest of the country? My own personal data (contained in my book "How to Invest in Condominiums") and experience in Seattle indicates that the problem is more widespread. A 50 percent estimate also applies to the Pacific North West if a longer time period is considered. In Seattle in the late 1970's you could buy new condominiums for a price that was about seven times the gross annual rent. I stopped buying real estate in the 1980's when I could not get a price close to my recommended target price of seven times the gross annual rent. The bubble was beginning to inflate. If millions of other real estate buyers had stopped buying because housing prices were getting outrageously high relative to imputed rents it is difficult to imagine how the bubble could have continued to grow.
Now the bubble has supposedly burst, but yet the minimum selling price at condominium auctions (and they do sell rapidly) are set at about fourteen (14) times the gross annual rent. Twice what was "normal" in the late 1970's. Seattle, of course, is not the whole country but almost everyday there are indications that the panic is getting bigger. Weeks ago the government thought they could stop the panic with a $750 billion injection of capital. This crisis is moving so fast that this book published in 2009 is rapidly getting out of date. Microsoft is laying of people (5000) for the first time in it's history. And now in senate hearings you hear the number $4 trillion to buy from the banks all the "toxic assets" (a scary label for over-priced real estate used in times of panic). Some economists worry that this massive amount of spending could totally destabilize the dollar. The Inauguration's main theme was hope. But the stock market responded with a crescendo of fear. It fell 332 points, the worst Inauguration Day sell off in 113 years.
I subtract one star for the fact that half the book is consists of "Excerpts from the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" (page-count inflation) and there is no index.



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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars $700 Billion Mistake?, June 1, 2009
The economy is in shambles making for scary times in American. Unemployment is continuously increasing, businesses are failing, mortgages are being foreclosed at alarming rates, and the most horrifying fact is that the gross national debt was just increased by $700 billion! Paul Muolo has taken on the daunting task of simplifying the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act that was passed by our elected officials this past fall in the $700 Billion Bailout.

According to Muolo, the mortgage/credit crisis had its roots planted during the Clinton years, was then fertilized by the manure of the Bush administration, and is now Obama's harvest to reap and sell. Muolo further explains that the $700,000,000,000 bailout is rotten to its roots! The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act is a sweet-smelling idea, according to those in Washington who allowed it to happen. What Washington fails to tell Americans is that the effects of this "Act" are going to be felt for many years to come; perhaps for generations. Muolo does an excellent job of simplifying the political jargon of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into readable terms. The content of this book, however, is pretty scary!

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