Wells Fargo's cooked books
- added July 23, 2008
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This story concerns their massive $84B Home Equity Line/Loan portfolio, of which much is now under water due to massive house price depreciation. Technically (and realistically) these have become unsecured. This is a real problem for banks. By my estimates, Wells Fargo wildly under-reserved on their home equity exposure.
Not only did Wells change the time line for placing a loan into “default” by extending the term out 60 days, essentially hiding 60 days of defaults, but they are also using AVMs to determine value from March of 2008, even though the median home price has fallen 5.4% since then.
Not only did Wells change the time line for placing a loan into “default” by extending the term out 60 days, essentially hiding 60 days of defaults, but they are also using AVMs to determine value from March of 2008, even though the median home price has fallen 5.4% since then.
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