did you know a loan rate included ben bernanke. boyds pushed him. what about this equity stake, he said it was taken in order again to protect the taxpayers who were assuming so much risk. >> boise had three big names, ben bernanke and the former treasury secretary, mr. paulson and mr. tim geithner, where is he going with the questioning? >> what he is trying to do, tyler is paint a picture of a government or government officials that really did not do proper analysis on the value of aig and the subsidiaries. so as a result they put together this kind of slap dash agreement and didn't ask the proper questions or seek any kind of outside analysis, you know when they put this rescue package together. so that is what boise is trying to show that the government when it had the excessive hours to use, they did not use the proper due diligence to create the rescue package, and again did not treat the aig shareholders fairly. >> all right, mary thompson, thank you very much. mary, reporting from washington tonight. >> and from washington to wall street, we

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whether he is ben bernanke or joe smith. that doesn't matter.hey want to see proof of income provided, not potential down the road. the disconnect, with a lot of credit worthy people whether ben bernanke or joe smith the business owner, can not have not been able to get credit for the past two years. what you're seeing now, easing credit for people that arguably should buying a house be really high priority for somebody with weak credit and doesn't have any money for a down payment? i don't think so. yet we'll ease lenderring standards in that area without addressing the very credit worthy, very affluent asset-rich people that otherwise can't get credit. >> liz, if i break into that right now. i think key word is bureaucrat. these decisions are being made by bureaucrat. that has got to change. liz: again, a privilege, not a right to own a house. thank you so much for weighing in on one new standard. greg mcbride, susan wachter. david: i will personally back ben bernanke's loan. i give him my phone number. i give him my money. >>> we're moments a

ben bernanke, you get it? you see where we're going with this?g -- despite him making $250,000 for one speech he is unable to refinance. charles payne, host of making money. jack hough as well. next coinstar will stop taking janet yellen nickles. what is next. >> charles will be happy to loan him some money. >> at very low bid. melissa: that's right. really says, everybody thought he was kidding. he said this, no, i like just changed jobs. if you have done what we've all done it, done one of those mortgage documents he is between jobs. >> that is really want mortgage business all that much. 30-year-mortgage rate 4.2%, historically speaking in the toilet. the problem the banks, savings rates, and squeeze on lending margins. melissa: you're trying to this into serious story? he tried to turn it into a serious story. who is the person process this paperwork, looking at ben bernanke and they don't get what, nothing else, his earning potential? house is like 800,000 doll house. that he made, he makes 250,000 a speech. >> when you buy a car, you tell t

mike, are you going to loan to ben bernanke?> i will absolutely loan to ben bernanke. , thenk the situation challenges in refinancing is symptomatic of the problems in the mortgage industry. credit cycles move from one side to the other. pre-crisis it was tell me what you make and it is good enough. post crisis, i will treat you like a money launder until you prove otherwise. we have gone too far to the other extreme in terms of credit creation. >> tell me the biggest difference tween what your criteria is versus a bank. doour traditional borrowers not have a huge asset position. a acronym henry, high earner, not rich yet. the reality, it has a lot of options financing those home. >> can you be a self-employed guy? >> are you looking for a mortgage, bill? >> well, if it is good enough for ben bernanke -- >> generally we take pay stubs. it is us as simple as that. have a payyou do not stub? >> if you can demonstrate you have income and that we can underwrite you against your think about a for traditional mortgage process today, y

bullard says he doesn't think the fed can keep using considerable time any longer. >>> ben bernanke tolds conference in chicago thursday he's having a hard time refinancing his mortgage due to tight credit conditions. bernanke because his house in nearly washington in 2004 for 839,000 and has refinanced twice before. "the wall street journal" says maybe his loan may be too big to qualify for backing from fannie mae and freddie mac. he has mortgaged his country but bernanke can't refinance his house. has bank regulation gone too far if even ben bernanke can't refinance his mortgage? john tweeted in to say bank regulations haven't gone far enough. there should be a mandatory down payment when buying a home. michael says the process of getting a home has gotten worse. steech, do you have a thought on the housing market and if the banks are providing enough or looser regulations to take out a loan? >> it's a business of a catch-22. you need to have some sort of lending market. i think the big chang in the u.s. remains the housing market, while having picked up from where i was a couple of ye

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it is true of ben bernanke and janet yellen and it is true of mario draghi. deal with more fundamental issues. >> the imf singles out russia and japan. what do you feel is weighing on the economy boast -- most? >> all of the above. and the china thing is very serious. no one believes the numbers coming out of china. much slower than things are there. brazil is not working. to imagine fundamentals changing even after the election. you keep coming back to north america and the united states. we are the one potential bright spot. but again, there are real questions. whether congress and the president, after the midterms, whether there is any possibility of working. >> tom keene, you are never this quiet for this long without something going on. >> i'm just looking at the markets. the german 10 year yield is stunning. olivia is right. they will do nothing at this meeting. >> nothing at this meeting. >> i just think it is a changed bond market. >> hard to believe. here is our twitter question of the day. what is your investment strategy as stocks selloff? ♪ >> goo

ben bernanke's name, let this one go through, obviously they didn't, right?> obviously they didn't. they are now. neil: brian, very good having you, thank you, very enlightening. the last stand for eric holder is hard to say. the justice department is reading another round of charges against banks. maybe some of those who are part of the survey. this time over currency manipulation. tracy, i don't want to say this sounds like a money grab but this sounds like a money grab. >> total money grab. bank of america in the hole for $17 billion in fees and they have no choice but to pay. the government using the banks as piggy banks to get money back frankly, and the banks have no choice but to settle and move on. they have to hand in their capital statements to make sure they have enough cash on hand. they need to know their liability. neil: talking about rigging the currency markets, it gets to be arcane, jonas, suffice to say, this is like a trojan horse to maybe getting execs in prison. >> maybe, there's a one -- neil: not me. >> they couldn't get anybody on the

>> i don't know about ben bernanke's mortgage. i have a few bankers maybe we can introduce him to.e corporate side, if you are a reasonable corporate, there is no trouble financing 60% of the corporate bonds that are issued in the low investment grade space our covenant-like. that is a sort of bull market indicator. if you are a reasonably good company with reasonably good credit quality, this is not the issue. it is almost too good. >> richard byrne, thank you very much for joining us this morning. talks toangel gurria us about the ailing euro zone economy and what can be done to fix it. stay with us. we are "on the move." ♪ >> welcome back to "on the move ." i am jonathan ferro live from london. let's turn to the eu budget. france and italy of what it a political collision with brussels yesterday. officials said they would approve all member nations' budgets after last-minute adjustments to spending plans. the changes still aren't enough for france and italy to bridge deficit gaps. i have a special guest to get some perspective on the european issues. secretary-general angel gurr

ben bernanke says he is having a hard time refinancing his mortgage.ed this in chicago .esterday in a panel trish regan joins me now. you really can make this up. >> you know it's interesting about this. look. the reality is, he is now self-employed. he is no longer an employee of the federal government. he is doing pretty well, makes about 250 thousand dollars every time he gives a speech. >> which begs the question, why doesn't he just pay the mortgage? >> that is a question probably for him and only him to answer. rates are interest low and everything. you might as well take out the loan, i guess. more of an having issue than say somebody who has a steady income just because his income is a little more lumpy. -- that may >> how much per speech? >> $250,000. >> i'll take it. >> just do one a year, right? is not exactly easy for your average american and ben bernanke is not your average american, for people to get loans right now. we don't want anything like what we had a pre-2008, no income, no asset loans, but why is it that your average person is h

was year, ben bernanke indicating that there would be a tapering of the fed's bond buying. there was a paper tantrum. investors, speculators, their fromd to show this, went long to short the bond market. ever since last summer, positions only grew and grew and grew. there are various ways to measure this. there was a massive short base treasuryr the 10-year got out of its 2.5, three % range that existed for near a 3% range that existed for a year. and itlt a lot of pain was time to get out. it became psychological. a classic capitulation trade. >> so, we have so many geopolitical crises at the same time. how should fixed income investors be positioning themselves? >> we think investors should be involved in dollar assets by merrily or at least in terms of currency exposure. one has to go global in terms of assets, of course you want high quality assets as well. central banks are willing to cut off the left tail risks. the ecb is next. we have seen the bank of japan and the fed be very aggressive about their policy stances but the ecb has been lagging behind. aheadl probably

he will be followed by another architect of the bailout, ben bernanke.key witnesses in hankering for's -- hank greenberg's lawsuit against the government. peter cook is outside the courthouse with more. geithner continues to start with greenberg's lawyer. >> third day on the stand for tim geithner. he was joined a short time earlier by his new partner in crime, ben bernanke, just arrived at the courthouse as well for his testimony, expected around midmorning or so. have beennd boise going at it from the start could he is very deliberate in his answers to boise. but yesterday it flipped because the government got to do with tim geithner and he was much more expensive but the crisis atmosphere and the decision to bail out aig. he was reluctant at first to do it but then talk about what he did. he said "there was substantial risk we would lose billions of dollars, if not tens of billions of dollars, and a reasonable prospect over time of recovering our assistance." "we wanted to make the conditions tough enough that they were not attractive to firms in simi

quitener and ben bernanke learn from what hank paulson did today and sort of follow in that lead. >> rose: thanks, leslie, thanks, aaron. in full disclosure i should note that many years ago the star foundation like many other found station-- foundations was one. underwriters of this show, and david boyes has been a long time personal friend of mine. back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: gillian flynn wrote a 2012 thriller called "gone girl" it has sold 8 million copies worldwide it follows nick and amy dunn a couple experiencing a marriage gone wrong when amy mysteriously goes missing. nick becomes a prime suspect in the investigation of her possible murder. it is now filmed by david finch, heres is the trailer for gone girl. >> nick dunn, you're probably the most hated man in america right now. did you kill your wife, nick? >> every one told us, and told us, marriage is hard work. not for me and nick. >> as you all know, my wife, amy elliott dunn disappeared three days ago. i had nothing to do with the disappearance of my wife. i have nothing to hide. >> you don't know if she ha

ben bernanke, sky bridge interviewed him. the theme that came out of that, lower, longer.o even though they're disengaging from the quantitative easing, they'll keep rates low for a super long period. neil: that sounds like a bubble to me, tracy. >> people should just stay in this market. don't let the noise pull you out and make you nervous. your 401(k) will probably be higher on december 31st. as far as interest rates they have to start going up again. you need banks to start lending. neil: if bernanke is right. -- >> it won't be the interest rates. >> the all-stars aren't addressing deflation. >> who cares about falling prices? who cares? i think it's great when you have lower gas prices or oil prices. it's better for energy. >> it's very bad for debt destruction. you see. if my salary gets cut in half and i'm carrying the same amount of debt my debt has doubled it wipes up the society. don't think that janet yell in. >> so falling prices are sometimes good for a society, but deflation is horrific for a society. why? neil: you say that's the greater danger. >> debt dest

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today it was ben bernanke's turn to go up against superlawyer david boyce who is representing greenbergs suing over the terms of the bailout of aig. other witnesses have included hank pahlsson, and tim geithner. bernanke was not so happy to be on the witness stand, it seems. joining us is bloomberg business reporter andrew zajac. so bernanke didn't seem too happy, is that right? >> that's right. the body language, and the character of his responses suggested he wanted to be elsewhere. >> okay. but what were the key bits of testimony? the >> he testified that the harsher terms that were accorded aig were justified by the goals that regulators had. they wanted to prevent shareholders of the company from reaping a winfall if the company was bailed out, and they also wanted to -- not necessarily to save the company, but to prevent the systemic damage to the overall economy from the company's collapse. aig is the largest insurance company in the world, and it has relationships in terms of the financial products that it -- that it insured with everything -- everybody from investment banks, re

geithner and ben bernanke learn from what hank paulson did today. >> thanks. in full disclosure, and many years ago, the star foundation, like many other foundations, was one of the underwriters of this show and david has been a longtime personal friend of mine. back in a moment. stay with us. ♪ >> gillian flynn wrote a 2012 thriller called "gone girl" that has sold 8 million copies worldwide. it involves nick and amy dunne. when amy goes missing on their anniversary, nick becomes a prime suspect in the investigation of her possible murder. it is now filmed right david fincher. here is the trailer for "gone girl." >> nick dunne, you are probably the most hated man in america right now. did you kill your wife, nick? >> everyone told us and told us, marriage is hard work. not for me and nick. >> as you all know, my wife disappeared three days ago. i had nothing to do with the disappearance of my wife. i have nothing to hide. >> friends she talked to? >> not really. >> you do not know she has friends, you do not know what she does all day, and you do not know her

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diana olick is live in d.c. >> former fed chairman ben bernanke speaking at a conference says he recentlyed to refi his mortgage and was unsuccessful. he said bernanke was making the point lenders have gotten too tight. how is this possible? he's got a pricey book contract, charges top dollar for speeches, and he just got a job as a distinguished fellow at the brookings institution. let's start right there, shall we? number one, he recently changed employment. red flag. most of his money comes from speeches and the book. he is self-employed and has to disclose anything he may not have wanted to disclose all his assets. he is a private guy. finally, he may have gotten a bad appraisal. >> sometimes you just putnams into the system and they come out that you're not approved. that is one anecdote. we hear lots of anecdotes. it is not data. data shows us it's easier to get mortgages approved. >> the appraisal is a huge problem for both refis and home sales today. i've got a great job. been here over ten years. great credit. tons of equity in my house. last spring when i tried to get a home equ

former fede, the chairman cannot refi his home. ♪ >> that man, ben bernanke.e said in a conference yesterday he tried to free not that refinance his washington home but did not qualify. how is this possible? michael mckee has been trying to figure it all out. >> why is this man trying to refinance? he just refinanced his home a couple of years ago. when heon capitol hill and his wife moved to washington. about $839,000 of it -- $839,000 in 2004. according to his financial disclosure forms he refinanced taking his mortgage rate down to 4% from 5.375. he couldn't shave much more off of it. at a conference he told the , i recently tried to refinance my mortgage and i was unsuccessful in doing so. lie? he doesn't have steady income? >> it is all computers. it andputer looks at says you have had a job for 11 years, you are unemployed. >> we are wondering why he wanted to refi. there is no reason to assume he will not get that for several years. maybe he anticipates he can do it off sooner. >> the d.c. property records shows that he was down to 600 $72,000 on his mo

last week, ben bernanke could not get a mortgage. alan krueger told us he could not get a mortgage even though he had cash. a number of pieces to the bernanke piece not getting a mortgage. he transitions out of a job. he has not the same stable income. you're saying that ben bernanke was unable to get a mortgage because he is temporarily unemployed. >> if you move to traditional underwriting standards, that is the person -- >> i think his creditworthy. >> josh rosner sense us the thickest powerpoint of anyone. ridiculous.s is >> you feel that the complexities of dodd-frank are going to end up concentrating power in the big banks. >> i don't see how it ends any other way. when you create an environment where you have does cut resolution regimes -- when you create an environment where you have to resolution regimes, you are creating a tale of two cities. cost of funding advantages to the larger players are real. the pastseen that for decade in mortgage finance. that is continuing. >> gina, i know you cannot speak specifically about ind