sub-PRIME CUT

Larry Butterworth

sub-PRIME CUT

As loans default and foreclosures increase, the lenders have to pay out more and more to hide the losses. But the lenders can only make this up by making more loans, because this is how they increase their cash flow; and now it is clear they can make nore loans, and thereby increase their cash flow only by simultaneously increasing their losses, since their “loans” are proving to be losers. So no one wants their”paper” anymore because-well-it’s the financial equivalent of toxic waste. The “subprime” stuff is just the first surge: the tidal wave is close behind. Because all of it, the subprime, the prime, the AAA and everything in between, is the product of a previously hidden, but now obvious…Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme that is in the process of unraveling, as all Ponzi schemes eventually do. And what person wants to be the last idiot to buy into a Ponzi scheme?

From: What the ‘Subprime’ Mess is Really About by John Regan Jr.

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sub-PRIME CUT by Larry Butterworth
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  • HeatherTS

    HeatherTS

    lost a home due to an ARM loan…if anyone ever gets one…be sure NOTHING EVER changes on your credit report (unless its for you and not against you) the mortgate nearly doubled and we were forced to sell.

    great piece

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Sorry about your home, lot of that going about, not a good thing, thanks for looking.

  • Matthew Scotland

    Matthew Scotland

    Fantastic work Larry

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Matthew thanks for looking and thanks for your support

  • H M Bascom

    H M Bascom

    Fantastic work illustrating the crisis.

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Helen thank you for your comment, Regards

  • Paul (Quixote) Alleyne

    Paul (Quixote)...

    Great creativity, Larry.

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Thanks Paul, good to hear from you.

  • Matthew Scotland

    Matthew Scotland

    i was wondering about the winged red horse larry

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Hey Matthew, The red horse is the moble gas logo, not seen too much these days, I wanted it to symbolize the oil industry and I liked the way it looked.

  • shanghaiwu

    shanghaiwu

    where have I been

    this is AWESOME

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Shanghaiwu thanks so much

  • reflector

    reflector

    A great concept and depiction of the failings of the system ! Very symbolic !

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Hey Reflector thanks for looking, I couldn’t resist commenting on the situation, our economy is in the toilet bad, hope it gets better.

  • reflector

    reflector

    It’s definitely the down-side of capitalism, but it’s the only system that really works.

  • RosaCobos

    RosaCobos

    There is one way…
    And can be done..
    trying not to owe money to anyone..
    to any buy..
    unless not do doing ti..
    would mean to starve.
    And it works!....
    we not have a home owner scriptures…
    but you will be a free man… or woman..and ready to work for the living..
    day by day.
    Rosa (yor work is as always… “vitriolic” and really funny… good sense of humour….and plastic dimensionality… crrazyness…!!! good
    Rosa

  • montdragon

    montdragon

    Oink oinkers pouncing Ponzi schemers scheming for the next pig to slaughter and making bacon out of piggy’s in the blankets…a visual phantasmagoria as thousands lose their homes and jobs…the new indentured American servants soon to be a worldwide franchise….a sobering graphic of a graphic situation.

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Thanks for the very descriptive comment, you say it as well as it can be said and better. I notice your from San Diego, we are neighbors I live in Ocean Beach.

  • Braun1973

    Braun1973

    Awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Thanks Brian

  • Danilo Lejardi

    Danilo Lejardi

    Larry, haven´t seen this before; think I´ll have to update my watchlist once more, d…, it; anyhow, this is so well done; like the concept and the realization a lot.

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Thanks for the fave and the comment Danilo, always appreciated

  • Larry Butterworth

    Larry Butterworth

    Thanks for the fave and comment Danilo, always appreciated.

  • Scott d'Almeida

    Scott d'Almeida

    fabulous;

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Thanks again for the comments

  • Rosina Lamberti

    Rosina Lamberti

    excellent

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Rosina thanks, I appreciate your comment

  • Antanas

    Antanas

    great job

  • mistertrooth

    mistertrooth

    Yertle The Turtle meets Animal Farm, meets King Kong, meets Larry Butterworth!! Love it.

  • Anji Johnston

    Anji Johnston

    Wonderfully meaningful piece Larry. So well thought out and depicted – love your style!

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Thanks Anji

  • MrTAH

    MrTAH

    the lost Pink Floyd cover…...off to favs….

  • JohnOfLightning

    JohnOfLightning

    the ponzi bubble, huge and relevant

  • shanghaiwu

    shanghaiwu

    brilliant

    BRILLIANT

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    thanks so much for the honor

  • rodeorose

    rodeorose

    Incisive work.

  • Larry Butterworth replied

    Thanks so much, your so kind

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