There has never been more confusion about mortgages than at this particular time in history. The collapse of the world economy can, in broad strokes, be laid at the feet of three parties; the Federal Reserve, mortgage lenders, and American home buyers. Of these, the most dangerous and most responsible party, the Federal Reserve Bank, is also the malefactor fingered the least.
The Federal Reserve increased the amount a bank could loan relative to the amount the bank holds in deposits. It is hard to argue that the increase to a 30-1 ratio was simple idiocy. Did you see Jon Stewart hammer Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s Mad Money, on who did this? Well, the answer is, the Federal Reserve Bank did it. Congress must replace the FRB.
Mortgage brokers tried selling a subprime mortgage to any prospect that had a pulse. Millions who trusted their financial advisors had no idea there money was getting tied up in mortgages to unqualified people.
These shaky mortgages were then bundled and sold to financial firms as ‘asset backed paper,’ the now infamous ‘toxic assets’ we, the taxpayer, are buying from the banks. An other word for a so called toxic asses is a liability. And that’s what the governement is buying. Your tax money is being used to the American government.
Finally, the people who sit and tell CNN cameras that they didn’t know that they had an adjustable rate mortgage are simply too stupid to own a home. If not, things that are bad now are going to get worse and they may not ever get better again. Does that sound pessimistic? Good, because if you are not pessimistic now, you are a fool.
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