NYT: Banks poised for dividends after 3-year gap - Business - The New York Times - msnbc.com

Banks on a role. Amazing what trillions of dollars in bailout money will do to get you through a recession. Our government and citizens do not have the will to hold the banks accountable for their law breaking activity, regardless of the damage they have inflicted on the country.

New York Times Story paying dividends again. 
NYT: Banks poised for dividends after 3-year gap - Business - The New York Times - msnbc.com:
 "Investors in bank stocks are about to get a big cut of the profits again. Financial analysts say the nation’s largest banks are ready to begin restoring their dividends in the first half of the year, after a three-year pause to repair their damaged balance sheets. The reversal could put billions of dollars in the pockets of pension funds and retirees who had viewed bank shares as dependable sources of income. Clues to how big a payout is in store could come as early as Friday, when JPMorgan Chase announces its 2010 financial performance, the first of many earnings reports to come over the next week from the likes of Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo."

Pennsylvania court decision over RMBS fraud

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Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh Scores Victory in Lawsuit Over Fraudulent Sale of Securities

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"In the first substantive decision handed down in any of the five major lawsuits by the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLB) over RMBS losses, the Hon. Stanton Wettick, Jr. of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania dealt a blow to JPMorgan Chase, Countrywide and other securitizers of subprime and Alt-A mortgage loans, while letting the ratings agencies largely off the hook."

Time will tell if the courts will hold the banks accountable.  The country needs to see some penalties levied against those in the mortgage business in order to restore trust in the financial system.  We are seeing continued kid glove treatment of the banks as the current crisis remains an anchor hindering the economic recovery. 

The ratings agencies have gotten  free pass as well as the appraisers and the home builders who had used their own mortgage financing arms to drive prices higher with inaccurate appraisals and by creating scarcity hysteria that was completed fabricated. 
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