Interesting history lesson.
http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-...-back-machine/
I thought it was all Bush's fault. Now I'm confused.
Interesting history lesson.While were at it lets lump Sallie Mae into that category. Thats a bubble that needs to burst open! There are millions of people in this country that are ridden with student loan debt and it is killing the upcoming generation of Americans! Ouch!!!
http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-...-back-machine/
I thought it was all Bush's fault. Now I'm confused.
Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
I KNEW it would only be a matter of time before some yahoo threw out the "Barney Frank Card". Originally Posted by Little StevieLittle Stevie, do you have a personal interest in "covering" Barney Frank's ass? After all, he was just a cock-sucker (literally) who saw to it that his boytoy-bottom boy was hired and employed by Fannie Mae but didn't trouble himself to oversee the interests of the American taxpayer.
Second, the Community Reinvestment Act was passed under CARTER in 1979 and worked fine until greedy mortgage bankers skirted buying Mortgage Default Insurance and began "creating" funny money derivatives called Credit Default Swaps!But business was sure good—at least for a while—for champion Dimcrap supporter Angelo Mazilo, Countrywide's Chief Executive Officer. Ol' Angelo was one those who personally benefited from sub-prime lending practices. And it was great to be an "FOA" — "Friend of Angelo": ask chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Christopher Dodd (D-CT); the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Kent Conrad (D-ND); and the former CEO of Fannie Mae: Jim Johnson (Dimocrap associate of McCarthy, McGovern, Carter, "Slick Willie" and the Anointed One). They all received excellent mortgage terms and some sizable campaign donations from Ol' Angelo.
The CDS's basically covered ANY loan they wanted to make and the bankers and mortgage lenders were greedy enough to loan to anyone with a pulse and then sell the paper to investors while relying on an unproven instrument to guarantee the packaged loans.
BTW, the CRA never ever required that ANY lender lend to people who could not pay the loans back or who was not credit-worthy. That is why deregulation of the derivative market caused the crash after years of the CRA not having a problem. Originally Posted by Little Stevie
I KNEW it would only be a matter of time before some yahoo threw out the "Barney Frank Card". First, Neal Boortz is a MAROON! Second, the Community Reinvestment Act was passed under CARTER in 1979 and worked fine until greedy mortgage bankers skirted buying Mortgage Default Insurance and began "creating" funny money derivatives called Credit Default Swaps!
The CDS's basically covered ANY loan they wanted to make and the bankers and mortgage lenders were greedy enough to loan to anyone with a pulse and then sell the paper to investors while relying on an unproven instrument to guarantee the packaged loans.
BTW, the CRA never ever required that ANY lender lend to people who could not pay the loans back or who was not credit-worthy. That is why deregulation of the derivative market caused the crash after years of the CRA not having a problem.
And if you think by some strange quirk, that all this money went to the people applying for loans, why don't you tell us why the banks and lenders have it now?
Why don't ALL of YOU who are still spreading the Barney Frank Fairy Tale or are listening to AM Hate Radio Pot Stirrers learn what REALLY happened?
This should tell you how Greenspan kept the ball rolling for his buddies in the financial markets and how a very smart woman tried to warn them of the impending doom!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/
Despite Brooksley Born's warning and the attempts made by Elizabeth Warren, the banks are still playing with fire and using derivatives and warding off adequate regulation with powerful Republican allies who don't want YOU regulating THEIR gravy train. Originally Posted by Little Stevie
I will repeat:Seriously, you are talking to folks that just can not understand how the market worked at the time and how the derivative market amp'ed everything up beyond anything possible before.
BTW, the CRA never ever required that ANY lender lend to people who could not pay the loans back or who was not credit-worthy. That is why deregulation of the derivative market caused the crash after years of the CRA not having a problem.
! Originally Posted by Little Stevie
I will repeat:Here is Bush in 2002....Boy , not like those goals would not cause a housing bubble
Bush tried to warn them? LMAO! LMAO! Originally Posted by Little Stevie
Fact Sheet: President Bush Calls for Expanding Opportunities to Homeownership
Today's Presidential Action
Today, President Bush announced a new goal to help increase the number of minority homeowners by at least 5.5 million before the end of the decade. The President's aggressive housing agenda will help dismantle the barriers to homeownership by providing down payment assistance, increasing the supply of affordable homes, increasing support for self-help homeownership programs, and simplifying the home buying process & increasing education. The President also issued "America's Homeownership Challenge" to the real estate and mortgage finance industries to join in his effort to increase the number of minority homeowners by taking concrete steps to tear down the barriers to homeownership that face minority families. Background on the President's Homeownership Agenda