Hard Ears for Sure You Will Feel

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The blogmaster read Wild Coot’s (Harry Russell) weekly column with interest and came away with a couple takeaways which maybe more poignant than the former banker touched on.

We live in a capitalist driven society which is ‘defined’ by churning economic activity with the aim to make profit for the capitalists. We can theorize to rival the Adam Smiths and John Keynes’, however, the reality is that the domestic and global market is undergirded with capitalist intent.

What does this have to do with Russell’s article?

It is obvious to this lowly blogmaster the banks offered to defer mortgage payments because increase delinquency in the portfolio would have translated to a reclassification of non performing loans and therefore negatively impact the profit and loss account. Russell’s “advice was to try one’s best not to accept this offer as catching up on mortgages is always difficult even when there is an improvement in circumstances“. Although good advice in theory there is the reality – too many Barbadians have opted for sizeable mortgages because they ‘qualify’ and not because of exercising the best judgement based on present and future states. For example, you work in a fickle industry like tourism, why commit to a 25 years mortgage for maximum value because you qualify? We criticize government for mortgaging our children’s future and at the household level we take the same decisions. Then again, the sum of decisions taken at the household level defines the society we live in. Is this where our education system both formal and informal is failing?

The government is by no way excused from supervising a governance framework to protect citizens from corporates, this is its job. The flipside however is where does personal responsibility for start and finish for making smart financial decisions.

The purpose of this brief preamble to Wild Coot’s article is to provoke thought by those making life altering financial decisions anchored in simplistic thought instead of commonsense [Oxford definition: good sense and sound judgment in practical matters].

With hard ears you feel 

A FEW MONTHS AGO I warned Barbadians that they might have been buying a pig in a poke. When there was a drop in tourism, people in the industry were unable to pay their mortgages on houses or cars for three months, even longer.

Banks offered people the chance of deferring mortgage payments for three months. My advice was to try one’s best not to accept this offer as catching up on mortgages is always difficult even when there is an improvement in circumstances.

The question above all is, “did you carefully read your mortgage before you signed it.”

Take heed

Perhaps banks saw an opportunity to impose commission for these deferments. Maybe banks were not looking far enough down the line.

Remember banks had just experienced substantial losses from Government bonds and feared another hit on mortgage payments.

If the mortgage that you signed gives the bank the authority to sell or transfer the mortgage, then you need to take heed. Get your copy out and look.

Now that many mortgages are still in arrears and banks are unable to earn on them, banks want to get rid of the mortgages. If banks get rid of these mortgages, then any losses incurred would be charged against future profits. Thus banks would be tempted to clear their books of these loans.

They may have been able to put the properties up for sale. Such action gives the bank a bad image in the eyes of the public. In any case the bank has to justify that the eventual price at which it has disposed of the property was the best price available.

When you sign a mortgage, you may give the bank the power to sell the property or the mortgage. The sale of the mortgage does not change the monthly premium due under the mortgage. There are other people in the business of buying mortgages and would be interested in what the bank wants to do. Such businesses also have a duty to account to the mortgagor a reasonable price if selling of the property has happened. However, these companies do not carry the same image vis-à-vis the public as the banks.

As I have already stated in another article, if your house is worth $400 000 and you have a mortgage of $200 000 (not a bad case), if the mortgage can be sold, a mortgage buyer can be offered the property (mortgage) for $150 000 (the bank is claiming a tax loss of $50 000) that is probably worth $400 000.

Change rate of interest

The new holder of the mortgage has taken over a mortgage of $200 000 for which he has paid $150 000 on a property worth $400 000 but not the same case that hamstrings the bank.

This is the same problem that faced shareholders in 2008 in America.

There are mortgage buyers all over the world. They can be local or foreign. What is also important is that more often than not the mortgage that you sign gives the holder of the mortgage the ability to change the rate of interest unless there is a limitation period in the mortgage. This is more trouble for the mortgagor as then there is no competitive aspect to the mortgage rate.

The bank providing a mortgage will perhaps only be prepared to sell your mortgage if it is going out of business or if you are badly in arrears.

The important point is that if you have signed a mortgage, you are obligated to the mortgagee so long as your mortgage gives the right to the bank to sell the mortgage. The new mortgagee is not out of pocket as the original bank (first mortgagee).

There are many reasons that an entity holding a mortgage has to be concerned about especially where the mortgage covers buildings. The question of ensuring that insurance is paid up to date will arise. The decision to pay the insurance premium if there is an arrear is paramount. The new mortgagee has less at risk and may not be prepared to foot the premium.

He may be relying on the net value of the land in case of a fire.

This means that a mortgagor must be more alert when in the hands of a new mortgagee. Repairs to the property also have to be considered as the new mortgagee has less at stake, having expended less in acquiring the mortgage.

The question of whether or not the mortgage seller gets a fair price for the property will depend on the condition of the property, the location and the market.

Harry Russell is a banker. Email quijote70@gmail.com (Source: Nation)

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  1. Respect Bajans!

    Atherley blasts Govt for complying with IMF, but ignoring citizens
    by ANTOINETTE CONNELL antoinetteconnell@nationnews.com
    GOVERNMENT IS ACCOUNTING more to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) than it is to Barbados when it comes to the national purse strings.
    Leader of the Opposition Bishop Joseph Atherley levelled that accusation as he renewed calls for a budget after yesterday’s SUNDAY SUN article about new fiscal rules to be in place by April 1.
    The regulations give Parliament and the Auditor General more oversight of Government’s spending and indebtedness, in keeping with the recommendation of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department that wants Barbados debt to decline by a particular time.
    “It seems to me the IMF is saying you have to budget properly and you have to report on those budgetary exercises properly and Government is agreeing to these things and that is a sad thing.
    “What Government is agreeing to is that they must properly account to the IMF in relation to the budgetary processes but they don’t have to account to Barbadians, which is ridiculous,” he said.
    Atherley suggested that as a result of the upcoming changes Barbadians can expect some cutbacks at statutory organisations and merging of state-owned
    enterprises or possible tax raising.
    “Government will have to find ways to generate revenue beyond what we do now. You can diversify the tourism product, you can find new sectors that is going to take time. What is Government’s short term measure of raising revenue? It could very well be raising taxes,” he told the DAILY NATION when contacted yesterday.
    The Member of Parliament for St Michael West said Government was readily acceding to the IMF’s demands for a more transparent and highly accountable budgetary process while being flippant about local requests for a budget.
    “If you are dealing with the IMF and you’re getting IMF money and because of dealing with IMF you are getting money at concessionary rates from others you have to properly account to them. That is fine, but you cannot disrespect the Barbadian people who put you in office by dismissing calls for budget discussions and budget statements in Barbados while agreeing with the IMF that you would do it for them.
    “We can try to fool Barbadians that all is well that we passed the IMF tests. The truth is, I believe the institution has been a little generous with us and a little lenient with the Barbados Government because we were actually facing down the COVID-19 situation, but once we push past this COVID-19 reality we’re going to have to reckon with good financial and fiscal management. I think that is what we are hearing from the IMF, get your debt under control and keep it under control,” Atherley said.
    The Government, he said, will come to realise that it cannot spend as loosely as it has been doing or borrow as freely as it has been.
    “You’ve got to show as a Government that you are fiscally prudent and that you are generating a sufficient level of revenue which must be properly reported. It means a tightening of the situation.
    “You will have to find ways of generating revenue
    beyond your borrowing and you have to be able to control your spending in a context where you just can’t excuse it by making reference to COVID,” he said.
    Apart from Atherley, president of the Democratic Labour Party, Verla De Peiza, and Lynette Eastmond, spokesperson on governance for the United Progressive Party, made calls in November for the traditional budgetary proposals to be brought to the House of Assembly, which gives an account of Government’s spending areas and where revenue will be earned.

    Source: Nation

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  2. Barbados main earner for FCIB
    BARBADOS was FirstCaribbean International Bank’s (FCIB) main revenue earner this year and the company has most of its assets here.
    FCIB, which has its headquarters in Barbados, reported this in its annual report for the year ended October 31, 2021, a period when it turned 2020’s $314.7 million loss into this year’s $251.4 million profit.
    Based on geographical concentration, in 2021 most of the regional bank’s assets and revenues were in Barbados.
    Its total revenues this year were $1.06 billion and of this $411.6 million was generated in Barbados followed by $325.8 million in the Bahamas, and $172.7 million in the Cayman Islands.
    At the end of the financial year, FCIB’s total assets were $25.6 billion. This included $7.6 billion in Barbados, $5.8 billion in the Bahamas, and $5.2 billion in the Cayman Islands.
    Bank chairman David Ritch called this year’s profit “a significant improvement” and said it was helped by “the adaptation of economic activity to the COVID-19 environment and the efficacy of vaccines in preventing severe illness”.
    Ritch said the decision to sell FCIB’s business in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, St Kitts and Dominica and Aruba “will help the bank sharpen its focus and resources on clients and support profitable growth”.
    “We are confident, that, in the partners that we have chosen for these sales we are leaving our clients in excellent and competent hands,” he added.
    Chief executive officer Colette Delaney said FCIB “delivered a resilient financial performance in fiscal 2021 against the backdrop of continuing challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and uncertain economic conditions across the region”.
    “We continue to be well positioned to deliver on our strategic objectives, staying focused on the client experience, digital transformation and improving operational efficiency with meaningful investments in our systems and people,” she said.
    “Improvement in our performance was mainly due to significantly lower credit loss provisions and a rebound in origination activity. However, we continued to operate in a low interest rate environment,” Delaney stated.
    FCIB’s parent company the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) recently reported its own financial earnings for the period ended October 31, 2021.
    CIBC’s senior executive vice-president and chief financial officer, Hratch Panossian, said the bank’s revenue was in line with 2020 “as improvements in treasury and CIBC FirstCaribbean offset headwinds from currency translation and other corporate revenues.”
    Panossian said CIBC earned a $2.5 billion profit in the fourth quarter alone, a 23 per cent increase over that period in 2020.
    The bank’s revenue was $7.8 billion, “up ten per cent year-over-year, driven most notably by solid momentum across our wealth management and personal and commercial banking businesses benefiting from broad-based volume growth as well as higher market and transaction-related fees,” he added.
    (SC)

    Source: Nation

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  3. Fiscal rules, but not at expense of growth

    by SHAWN CUMBERBATCH
    shawncumberbatch@nationnews.com
    ANY FISCAL RULE Government introduces to improve its financial management should ensure that public investment, including infrastructural development, does not suffer.
    That recommendation comes in the new Central Bank of Barbados working paper Do Fiscal Rules Impact Investments For Small Open Economies?, authored by Keisha N. Blades, a research intern in the Central Bank’s Research and Economic Analysis Department, and Dr Ankie Scott-Joseph, lecturer of Economics, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.
    Their research study investigated the impact of fiscal rules on investments for small open economies (SOEs). A comparative analysis was conducted on Barbados, Greece, Grenada, Ireland, and Peru – five countries which have undertaken debt restructuring programmes within the last 20 years.
    Government is planning to introduce a fiscal rule, one that is procedurial in nature to enhance transparency, accountability, and fiscal management. It is unclear if Barbados’ framework will evolve to one with numerical limits.
    The two researchers found that “fiscal discipline associated with the presence of fiscal rules could result in stagnated levels of investment”.
    “Although the presence of a fiscal rule in a country is associated with achieving fiscal discipline, it is important for governments, especially those of developing countries, to have well designed fiscal frameworks that allow for sustainable debt while creating more fiscal space, thus freeing up resources for investment in human and physical capital,” they concluded.
    “The literature has supported our view that investment and economic growth are positively correlated, and the results of our study implies that the type of fiscal rule(s) enacted could impact the level of investment in small open economies. This analysis revealed a negative relationship between investment and the budget balance and expenditure rules.”
    Blades and Scott-Joseph explained that this relationship was concerning “since investment plays a key role in the promotion of the governments’ objectives of achieving economic growth and improving the welfare of citizens”.
    “We acknowledge that the implementation of a fiscal rule framework is necessary in the absence of fiscal discipline, transparency and sustainable levels of debt. However, the absence of economic growth at the expense of fiscal discipline and management seems ineffective and counterproductive,” they said.
    The economic researchers therefore recommended that fiscal rules “not only give priority to debt sustainability but also to investment, thereby attaining and enhancing sustainable economic growth”.
    They also argued that the relationship between fiscal rules and public investment was important in the context of a major economic shock like the COVID-19 pandemic.
    “Recovery plans for economic shocks such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic will require that investment (both public and private) be scaled up. Quality investment will need to be prioritised in areas such as health care systems, infrastructure, education and green technologies such as wind and solar energy,” said the researchers.
    “The current pandemic has highlighted the importance of having a fiscal framework that not only encourages fiscal discipline but also supports investment and economic growth.”
    They pointed out that most of the countries studied “were already faced with constraints imposed by fiscal rules enacted in the past to ensure fiscal discipline prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, with most of them achieving and in some cases overachieving their fiscal targets which resulted in large investment spending gaps.”
    The study noted that fiscal rules such as the expenditure rule, “can induce lower levels of public investment.”
    They referenced the International Monetary Fund which said in March
    2018 that “since expenditure rules do not specify the kinds of spending that needs to be contained to ensure compliance they often lead to excessive cuts in capital spending”.
    “This effect is most striking in developing economies as they often have large growth and development needs,” said Blades and Scott-Joseph.
    “That said, SOE governments from various countries globally should strive to strengthen their fiscal framework by designing and enacting rules that not only aim to establish a link between numerical limits and fiscal objectives, but also seeks to increase quality investment spending.”
    The research found that most of the five countries studied “over-performed in meeting their fiscal targets owing to higher-than-expected revenues” and public debt was low and sustainable owing to favourable debt dynamics.
    However, the countries “had low execution of public investment despite holding ample fiscal buffers”.
    Blades and Scott-Joseph said fiscal rules can be applied to government expenditure, government borrowing, taxes or the fiscal balance.
    The two questions the research sought to answer were: What are the impacts of fiscal rules on investments in small open economies and how can fiscal rules currently used by these small open economies be improved?
    The pair said the conclusions of such an analysis were both important and timely “because we found that countries with small open economies suffer from structural economic imbalances along with large infrastructure and service gaps, particularly following debt restructuring programmes”.
    “It appears that most of the countries in our study overperformed in meeting their fiscal targets but at the expense of low execution of public investments, resulting in infrastructural gaps. Deficiencies in infrastructure can have significant impacts on output and economic growth,” they elaborated.
    (Taken from this week’s BARBADOS BUSINESS AUTHORITY)


    Source: Nation

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  6. “What Government is agreeing to is that they must properly account to the IMF in relation to the budgetary processes but they don’t have to account to Barbadians, which is ridiculous,” he said”.

    they never believed themselves accountable to the people in over HALF CENTURY, ya believe they really want to start now, when they are still in SHOW OFF MODE…until VOTE BEGGING season comes around again and they have to face THE PEOPLE to beg votes…that’s the only use they have for the majority population.

    and try as they might, they could not hide the IMF reality forever….it’s now sitting on and will SQUEEZE every lie out of them…

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  7. All the simplistic hype about “ home grown economic policy” has now been exposed for the farce it was. All the talk about the “ brilliance” of “ quickly securing “ loans is now in the waste paper basket. We are firmly being told what to do ; where to do it and when to do it by the IMF.
    And as for consultants ; there a two . basic justifications for having them around: Relevance and results . Are they still relevant and are we getting any results?
    Final question: can we in all good conscience still justify such a big cabinet.
    Peace

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  8. @ David BU

    What are Barbadians hard ears about? Are they having a problem with their mortgages? I did not see any reports that indicated that there was massive sales of mortgaged houses. What percentage of the Mortgage Market are these?
    2. What fiscal management legislation is expected to do that the old one did not do? Nobody elected the AG nor the IMF to manage the Economic affairs of Barbados. Any fiscal metric is a rule of thumb,without any sound theoretical base. It would be disingenuous of any GOB to write this into legislation.The real economic world does not work so. And yes. It is driven by a “Capitalist Model”. I think we need to know how it it functions in 2o21. It is not the model expounded by Karl Marx nor the one rescued by Maynard Keynes. It resembles State Capitalism. Where governments have been rescuing the Economic System for over four decades.
    Please study the real Economy,its structure and its purpose. Governments need to have the freedom to lead the transitions.

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  9. @ David BU at 8 :39 AM

    Thanks for the upload.
    How reliable are these statistics? Were they compiled consistently and in the same manner? What information are they intended to convey? Do you notice the economic structure of USA and China? What are we really comparing and contrasting? The GDP needs further interrogation. Even one’s primitive instinct should indicate that we are comparing apples and oranges. They are not the same specie.

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    • @Vincent

      You should refer your questions to our regulatory agencies which cite the report as an authoritative source.


  10. @ David BU at 10:37 AM

    Thanks again for the upload. It supports my contention that we are doing the best we can under the prevailing conditions. There is very little that I would argue against in the report. We have to manage in the real world. Nobody has a crystal ball. We all have judgement alone.

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  11. @VC
    The Wild Coot usually has a good dose of sarcasm within his pen. He didn’t say there was a sell-off in mortgages. Rather he stated how mortgage holders can ‘make money’ by trading non-performing instruments to realize a loss, deductible against positive income. And the mortgage owner has no say in the matter. The similarity to Series J Bonds? Didn’t the GoB take A/P on its books, show them as paid by transferring them to a Bond, due several years away? And the recipient of the A/P has no say. I took it as one of his tongue-in-cheek specials, on how with a stroke of a pen, you can manipulate your income statement and balance sheet.

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  12. VINCENT, CRITICAL, JOHN KNOX, LYAL THEO AND ARTAX
    I HOPE THAT YOU GUYS ARE ENJOYING THE SEASON AND THAT IN 2022 THAT YOU WILL BE PROLIFIC IN YOUR PEACE AND PROSPERITY

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  13. ““What Government is agreeing to is that they must properly account to the IMF in relation to the budgetary processes but they don’t have to account to Barbadians, which is ridiculous,” he said.{LoO Atherley)
    May I advise the good Bishop he should examine the NIS, if he wishes to find successive administrators (16 years now), who have failed to account to Barbadians. And this is about money Barbadians HAVE ACTUALLY contributed. It is THEIR MONEY. Not a budget. Nor a statement of borrowed funds.

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    • @NO

      Rather you to call out the red bishop on the huff and puff (rhetoric). Ask him what is the status of all the investigations started by the PAC. We want to see results!

      In a westmsystem of government the PAC is one of if not the most important working committee of parliament. In our case it is an opportunity for participants to have free food at taxpayers expense.


  15. @ David Bo at 11: 27 AM
    You are correct .It is at the PAC meetings where the Fiscal management should be discussed andinterrogated. No need for any other body to evaluate the fiscal management of taxpayers money. This body has been very lackadaisical in their oversight of the peoples business.

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    • @Vincent

      You should read a book titled The New Economics by Keen. It is not very complimentary of your discipline and the critique comes from leading economists.


  16. “This body has been very lackadaisical in their oversight of the peoples business.”
    And that is as close to wind as he blows.

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  17. @ David BU at 3: 21 PM
    Thanks very much for your suggestion. In all fields of science we constantly have to revise our understanding of our professions ‘subject matter. Knowledge is dynamic especially in the Social Sciences. The variables are intelligent and do change /mutate much faster than a virus. We are not in the business to earn compliments. When we receive them we hnow that we have to get moving.

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    • @Vincent

      Agreed and this is what the book is about, the unwillingness of the profession to learn from the global financial collapse of 2007.


  18. @ David BU at 4 :39 PM. Very good. I have always kept uptodate on my professionand attend seminars on developing phenomena. you should have gatered that from my evolutionary approach to the subject/

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  20. @ GP at 11: 18 AM.
    Thank you very much for your kind wishes. I hope you are enjoying the Festal Season . I wish you and your family a Healthy and Happy 2022. Likewise to all my fellow bloggers. It has been a very educative year for me on BU.

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  23. To all: Our Supreme Leader has just made a magnificent speech. Some soundbites were clearly from my repertoire, “harmony and prosperity” from the Chinese CP’s speech book.

    Snap elections = instant victory for leader and party. Of course, the unvaccinated are not allowed to vote. They could infect other citizens at the polling station.

    One leader, one nation, one people. Mia Mottley command, we follow you! Even if you order us to storm the senate on your behalf.

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  25. David,

    we URGENTLY need a new blog to celebrate this brilliant manoeuvre by our Supreme Leader and victory in January in advance…

    The DLP will again face a AAA disaster and finally bleed to death financially. Perhaps the syndicate will even have to go underground or into the jungle. Temporarily, the DLP grandees can also clean my water tank or my shoes.

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  28. wuhloss….so alyuh got a snap election..next month is 2022 right..lawd…

    camera…action….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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  29. Let’s see how far that pre 1966 SLAVERY CONSTITUTION that they thought was such a brilliant idea to FOIST on the people in secret takes them…..

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  32. @ Enuff December 27, 2021 7:41 PM

    Congratulate our Supreme Leader on this move. Obviously, women leaders can keep secrets better than opposition chatterers.

    I look forward to the annihilation of the dishonourable senator.

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  33. I guess Senator Franklyn will be no more. We shall have a new Opposition. Atherley gone!

    And all de talk duh talking, the BLP will return as the best of the worst!

    She has now given herself three weeks to remind us of how bad it was under the DLP.

    She already started in that speech.

    Put up or shut up is the message! Do you want me or do you want the poppets over there?

    But who are the poppets again?

    Fear of the unknown will take care of their asses!

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  34. This election has caught BU political department with their trousers around their ankles and it will take a minute to cobble up a thread

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    Eric

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    Y’all should give me honorary masters (Masters)
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    They really talk (They really talk)
    Everything I say is everything I really walk
    Got it for the free though if it
    Wasn’t what I really bought (I really bought)
    Yeah (Yeah), pigeon pose (Pigeon pose)
    Only way we ever, ever comin’ toe to toe (Toe to toe)
    My Ivory Coast copper blood got me drippin’ gold (Drippin’ gold)

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    Hold up, mothership flow, bring the funk back (Funk back)
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    It ain’t uncommon to borrow a dollar
    Invite me over to eat with yo’ mama
    I like the checks with the commas on commas
    I want the checks with the commas on commas
    It ain’t uncommon to borrow a dollar
    Invite me over to eat with yo’ mama
    I like the checks with the commas on commas
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    I need them dollars, run me my half or I put a hole in yo’ wallet
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    That’s on my momma
    I’m steady mobbin’
    Posted up til’ I reach my profit margin
    Cash money
    And I ain’t runnin’ into thousands
    Hustle up, don’t you hear my stomach growling
    Bitch I’m ’bout it, I’m hungry
    So I need them ten of greens spillin’ off my plate
    Cash on delivery, bitch I raise the stakes
    You will hate, what I fuckin’ make
    Just to pop out and I don’t even show my face, oh yeah
    To count it all, gon’ take ’bout a minute
    Don’t claim the gang ho’, if you know you not with it
    Marijuana sinnin’
    Windows tinted, keep it low
    Cuz you know these niggas can’t wait to print it, oh yeah
    It ain’t uncommon to borrow a dollar
    Invite me over to eat with yo’ mama
    I like the checks with the commas on commas
    I want the checks with the commas on commas
    It ain’t uncommon to borrow a dollar
    Invite me over to eat with yo’ mama
    I like the checks with the commas on commas
    I want the checks with the commas on commas
    Dollars, dollars, dollars, circulate (Circu’-circulate)
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    They said we wouldn’t have shit
    Wouldn’t last if it was up to white Jesus
    Niggas started to believe us
    Started birthin’ and bleeding it
    Oh, the lies y’all sold us
    Oh, this poor love of ours
    This gospel we sing
    This little shine of mine
    I’m gonna let it eat me up
    I’m gonna let it kill me
    Gonna’ let it fuck me up, til’ I’m leaning
    Til’ I’m pheenin’
    Till I’m feeling better wow
    I kinda feel better now
    Cuz I got it now
    For me, for him, for her
    For my Grandmama who had to pick cotton
    And my Grand-daddy who got lashed at then laughed at
    Who you turned your back on
    Who you took your turn on for [?]
    I’m sorry, I’m kinda violent now
    Fuckin’ tired now
    Don’t mean to disturb your peace
    Just needed a little piece of what you got when I helped you out from [?]
    Y’all got me hot now
    I’m not asking for a permission
    Came back to see what’s good now
    Niggas buying dreams by the pound
    Only real niggas sellin’, only real niggas feel your fear
    It’s nice I frighten you
    It’s nice I’ve inspired you
    To look, to think, to act like me
    Little ‘ol me
    Little ‘ol me, came back to say
    We made it

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  35. Banks are funny, nt ha, ha funny.

    Last year my bank offered me a deferment. I told them that I did NOT want a deferment, since my income had not declined in the pandemic, in fact it may have increases slightly because I had nothing to do but garden, eat; and sell the surplus. I had hell persuading the bank to take the money due to them and which they were supposed to automatically deduct from my income. After many tries I was eventually able to persuade them to take their money. I wonder now if they planned to stick me with additional interest charges on a deferment which I did NOT ask for, which I did NOT need, and which I did NOT want.

    Banks are funny.

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    • @Simple Simon

      Can you explain how your bank tried to stick you with additional charges because of the deferment?


  36. Mia is three or four steps ahead of her rivals.

    Parties were urged to get moving but they were waiting and preparing for a 2023 date. It looks as they waited too long and prepared too slowly.

    Say what u you like, the woman is a boss.

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