[quote=bubba99]I suppose that title companies could just insure the hell out of a sale until the claims forced another AIG type of bailout We are in for a long ride.[/quote]

Don’t give them any ideas. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the title companies were already looking for ways to get a windfall helping to put “humpty dumpty” back together. They don’t even really have to be needed to pull it off. They just have to appear to be needed, which is pretty much what they do anyway.

The shell game (also known as Thimblerig, Three shells and a pea, the old army game) is portrayed as a gambling game, but in reality, when a wager for money is made, it is a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud. In confidence trick slang, this famous swindle is referred to as a short-con because it is quick and easy to pull off.