The Feng Shui of Abundance – Home

By personova on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Well, if the loan …
Well, if the loan was backed by a GSE there was no real risk to the bank. Just like FHA today.

By rogerandgunner on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Audit the FED and …
Audit the FED and you will understand that people stopped paying thier mortgage because there was not enough money in the system to pay both principle and interest on all the loans. Cut off the supply of money: Destroy the economy.

By mike11022 on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Everyting was good …
Everyting was good and fair until you started talking about the government actions. It was like all of sudden you got high up in the clouds.

By Ntone606 on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

The credit freeze …
The credit freeze isn’t the crux of the issue – it’s the solution. The issue was the massive credit bubble originating in 1980.

By ThatIsNotDeadWhich on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

I call it asset …
I call it asset stripping.

The commercial press calls it “financial innovation,” “globalisation” and “dynamic, flexible Anglo-Saxon capitalism” (as opposed to “Euroschlerotic” Germany which doesn’t allow nearly as free a hand for the people involved in the rape-and-run version of capitalism).

By DavidAKZ on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

What do you call it …
What do you call it when American Hedge Fund managers do the same thing ?

By romish12 on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

what are you trying …
what are you trying to say, i dont understand. money is something so you could exchaing for something else that has some or more value. without money how would you buy food?

By jwfcp on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

appraisal is a scam …
appraisal is a scam. if theres no unaccountability for the valuation, it is worthless.

By eNathan314 on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Your on the right …
Your on the right track. On our money is printed “In God We Trust.” This is true.. God help us if people no longer believe in the value of the dollar. Or, in this situation, the exact opposite. People believed too much in the value of the dollar instead of the real wealth. As was pointed out in the video, people DID gain real money (even including inflation), but the banks thought it was worth more than it was in reality.

We need to stablize the market somehow. I say, build more homes….

By pjblabla on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Price is an illusion
Price is an illusion

By dsws2 on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

At the point where …
At the point where you leave off, it’s not clear that wealth has been destroyed. The houses still exist. They haven’t been foreclosed, put up for an auction with no buyers, boarded up, and allowed to fall into ruin.

Ill-advised consumption has taken place. Instead of investing for their retirement, people have counted on their house value to sustain them and thus have considered themselves free to spend all their income on current consumption. But that’s not the same as wealth destruction.

By gillian2301 on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

I am a stay at home …
I am a stay at home mom. I need to learn about wealth and the terms related to it on a beginning learning level. These two classes are great. The instructors voice is pleasant and clear. Thanks for these two great classes!

By jgposner on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

…continued
When …
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When using fiat money to measure wealth. It is easy to creat illusions of wealth simply by printing more and more, making it cheaper and easier to obtain. People and governments buy things, bidding prices up, and when the system can’t sustain it any longer, the prices adjust and the illusion is gone and people are left with reality that their asset column dissapeared and all is left is the liability side.
The Federal Reserve is like steroids for capitalism.
Any thoughts?

By jgposner on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Sal, I’ve only seen …
Sal, I’ve only seen a few of your videos and I am totally psiched. I am excited to learn more from them. Expect a doation from me soon. Can I get your feedback on this point? It is a different way of looking at money. Money is wealth because we know we can somone else will give me something of value for it. Here it is: If all the money in the world was destroyed the total amount of wealth would remain unchanged. Money is an idea, concieved in the mind of man. Continued…

By ermeni on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Im a little …
Im a little confused as to how consumption (is this the same as spending) on granite countertops, hardwood floors, etc. leads to wealth destruction. My best guess which I think is wrong is that you mean spending on a vacation as opposed to spending/investing on something that leads to future profits (build factory or through financial intermediary) causes wealth destruction. But in this case doesn’t the wealth just transfer to hardwood floor and granite countertop makers? Thanks for your video.

By ThatIsNotDeadWhich on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

That’s a pretty …
That’s a pretty good description of the *proximate* causes. But if you want to know the real reason for the Bush Depression, you should go here:

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See if you can spot Ronnie Raygun’s presidency in her graphs…

By LoneOarman on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

This video better …
This video better explains the situation, where bad loans were insured, created the whole mess:
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By mentall007 on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Thank you for this. …
Thank you for this. Can you exapin to me about the subprime market and how it effect the world.

By Roshibear on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Amen.
Amen.

By ThatIsNotDeadWhich on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

The bubble (and the …
The bubble (and the IT bubble before that) permitted people to ignore this reality for a while – which meant, of course, that more of your industrial base got moved abroad than would have otherwise been the case.

When Russian oligarchs do that, it’s called “asset stripping.”

By ThatIsNotDeadWhich on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

In the current US …
In the current US case, it is even worse, because there is a political dimension that often fails to come across: The asset bubble permitted the US political economy to camouflage declining median real incomes. Why did median real income decline? Because your oligarchs – sorry, *tycoons* – moved much of your industrial base to China and other low-wage, low-regulation countries (i.e. countries that have no problem with pollution and slave labour).

By ThatIsNotDeadWhich on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Another thing is …
Another thing is that (more or less) the only people who have money to buy stuff with are the people who stayed in cash during the bubble – everybody else is seeing their margins wiped out. And the people who stayed in cash during the bubble are probably either risk-averse or think that this area is outside their competence.

By khanacademy on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Nothing wrong with …
Nothing wrong with consumption when you know its consumption (and an argument could be made that it makes you happier which is the best return).

By mmoore7 on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

Well, i’m sure …
Well, i’m sure purchasing all those marked down assets, and getting them off bank balance sheets should get lending (money creation) back on track. It’s true though, no matter how they’re financed, once money is consumed, the opportunity cost (investment) has been paid. Unless you’re running some kind of socialist state where people can’t buy luxuries that’s always going to happen. I’ll take our system over that any day, I love my Playstation and Lakers tickets.

By khanacademy on Dec 1, 2009 | Reply

I assume your …
I assume your talking about real estate? If that is the case, you should wait until inventories stabilize (stop growing) for a few months. If you’re talking about the stock market, we could see some rallies but stocks tend to over-correct relative to fair value implying that we could see some significant downside over the next 1-3 years (punctuated by sharp rallies).