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[john p]

http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/issues.aspx?Three-Possible-US-Dollar-Scenarios-1396

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article1807.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/2811081/BIS-warns-of-Great-Depression-dangers-from-credit-spree.html

[john p]

Community Reinvestment Act:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act

Glass Steagall Act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act

Gramm-Leach Bliley Bill:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act

FIAT System criticism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-based_monetary_system

Paulson Plan Plan comment: this is very good...

http://s.wsj.net/article/SB122230704116773989.html

[john p]

http://mises.org/story/2963

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/Bernanke20070330a.htm

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/epr/03v09n2/0306apga.pdf

[john p]

I am shocked that the Globe printed this:

http://www.boston.com/ ...truncated...

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[john p]

Wow...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU6fuFrdCJY

[john p]

Wow...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU6fuFrdCJY

[john p]

The Community Reinvestment Act certainly helps put the spike in the mid 90's into perspective huh?

http://www.bostonbubble.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2376&highlight=hell+happened+1999#2376

[samz]

[Guest]

THE GIANT POOL OF MONEY

Clarence Nathan was a man with three part-time jobs who earned about $45,000 a year, and yet a bank loaned him $540,000. The bank never checked his income.

"I wouldn't have loaned me the money, and nobody that I know would have loaned me the money," Nathan said. "I mean, I know guys who are criminals who wouldn't lend me that money, and they'd break your kneecap."

But this kind of lending happened, over and over again since 2003, leading to the mortgage crisis that has disrupted the global economy.

How did this mess happen? Through the news media you can pick up bits and pieces. But how many people really understand the housing crisis, why Bear Stearns went under, or sub-prime mortgages, or why the rest of the world was pulled under too?

These questions have bugged This American Life producer Alex Blumberg since early 2006 when someone told him about a NINA mortgage loan -- no income, no assets needed.

Hour-long podcast: http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1242

[john p]

I support your notion of the "Perfect Storm". I may be reactive on this blog lately because this is a major contributor that I hadn't factored in. This video had 200,000 hits on youtube yesterday morning; today it is up to close to 1 million hits.

After last night's debate, Charles Krauthammer

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401690.html

said that it was "remarkable" that McCain wasn't bringing up this point about the Community Reinvestment Act and that McCain tried to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When Couric asked Palin about any reform in the form of regulation that McCain ever put forth, I was floored that she couldn't think of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reform in 2005. Can you imagine it being your job to defend your boss and the biggest issue of the day your boss is on good footing and you don't know you have the case closed point to offer?

I really think that this subprime mess torpedoed our economy and the Community Reinvestment Act was the button that was pushed to send it on course. For the Democrats to get political capital out of this is remarkable.

I do think that there are plenty of reasonable reasons to vote Democrat, i.e. Haliburton, etc., but let's be fair when we keep score, this is not something that the Democrats ought to be gaining on.