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| Facts leading up to the housing bubble that broke our economy; "Just the facts ma'am just the facts" | |
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| Mountainrivers | Dec 22 2013, 12:03 AM Post #41 |
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Yes, the ultimate lenders were the hedge funds and other large investors. The fact that those entities didn't check to see if the loans were valid was because they were able to get credit default swaps ( considered to be insurance, but was not) from companies like AIG, which is an insurance company and insurance is regulated, but credit default swaps are not. When the loans defaulted enmasse, AIG was incapable of covering the losses and, in order to save AIG, the big banks and Fannie and Freddie, the government had to bail them out. |
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| Mountainrivers | Dec 22 2013, 12:05 AM Post #42 |
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The government was not obligated to back Fannie and Freddie because they are private corporations. The government bailed them out anyway because not doing so would have been catastrophic for the economy. |
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| Pat | Dec 22 2013, 12:07 AM Post #43 |
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And once AIG became such a large insurer, they became too big to fail. If I remember one of the arguments against arresting the managers of that company, it was because the company needed stability to keep from a complete collapse. I know some here would like to clear Bush of any responsibility but I think you need to re-read my OP and do some more research. |
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| Mountainrivers | Dec 22 2013, 12:12 AM Post #44 |
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Bush was complicit in it for sure, but there are many characters who were involved and I think blaming any one of them misses the big picture. I often wonder why we, the people, continue to allow these money guys to get away with causing such chaos. We hear you cons bitch constantly about illegals, yet hardly ever complain about the real criminals which, I suspect, have cost the taxpayers considerable more money than the illegals. |
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| Neutral | Dec 22 2013, 12:14 AM Post #45 |
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The banks were forced to make bad loans by the Clinton admin, another fact that is ignored. |
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| Mountainrivers | Dec 22 2013, 12:17 AM Post #46 |
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Prove it! |
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| Neutral | Dec 22 2013, 12:20 AM Post #47 |
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I think I already did, you refused to read it. |
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| Pat | Dec 22 2013, 12:23 AM Post #48 |
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Yep, after decades of red lining practices where they refused to lend money in minority communities. But to be more specific, nobody forced the banks to lend to unreliable borrowers with bad credit and sketch work history, the red lining issue had to do with lending to qualified people who were just as credit worthy as anybody else. The problem being the banks didn't want to do business in those areas. |
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| Neutral | Dec 22 2013, 12:26 AM Post #49 |
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Yes they did. |
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| Mountainrivers | Dec 22 2013, 12:32 AM Post #50 |
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You have it right, Pat. Neut is wrong, as usual, but will never admit it, regardless of the facts. |
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