JP Morgan apparently is expecting the U.S. economy to turn around fairly soon, because they are in the process of hiring several hundred mortgage officers from all across the country. If you do not quite recall who JP Morgan is, they are the wall street bank who made national and global news by offsetting over 5 billion dollar in their own corporate tax by purchasing then flagging Washington Mutual in one of the largest bank take overs in history.
Offsetting further tax liability, they also purchased Bear Stearns when their outlook began to sour and bankruptcy looked eminent for them. Bear Stearns was denied a bailout by former Goldman Sachs head Ben Bernanke, otherwise they may have received TARP money as well.
With JP Morgan hiring these loan officers and positioning them across the nation, one is left to wonder why they would be doing this during the greatest recession to hit the globe in at least 25 years. The explanation is that when the real estate market turns around JP Morgan wants to be positioned to best service home loan applicants. With most projections putting a real estate recovery about a year or more out, are they looking at some indicator most of us are missing?
My question is what do they know that we are not hearing from the media? They are hiring when it seems every other business is laying people off? That does not make any sense to me, unless they know something not many other people do.
With everything revealed, I think it will be profoundly obvious that JP Morgan, and the only other remaining Wall Street bank, Goldman Sachs, have been working diligently to establish themselves as the exclusive source of credit, before turning back on the spigots of credit.
Given that these kinds of illogical moves are typically seen when the CEO of a company dumps his stock the day before the company goes public with some bad report, we may be seeing the end of a suppressed real estate market very soon!
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