How to Ruin the U.S. Economy.http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/yourlife/11298412 steps – on Bush’s watch. …. !
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Bad Rules, inept Politicians and Administrators caused our Banking woes.This crisis was not caused by capitalism being fatally flawed. It was caused by politicians forcing the banks to give out bad loans, monetary authorities flooding the West with cheap credit and regulators being asleep at the wheel.
Indeed, one can date its origin precisely, to October 1977, when US president Jimmy Carter signed the "anti-redlining" law. Before then, lenders generally denied loans to people in poor neighborhoods, believing that the local mix of low incomes and a weak housing market would lead to many people defaulting. But the politicians - with good intent - wanted to make home ownership available to all Americans. So lenders were forced into giving out risky mortgages - what we now call "sub-prime" loans.
By 1985, this torrent of bad business had nearly bankrupted America's savings and loan institutions. So the government took on their bad debt and encouraged them to consolidate - unwittingly making them too big to be allowed to fail. …
Mortgage lenders repackaged these bad debts round the world but nobody cried foul. Institutions were lending 30 times their asset base. … Western capitalism has been dealt a severe blow by inept politicians and officials.
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