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The Crisis of Credit Visualized (Why we are in this mess in the first place)
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Posted on 07/16/2010 6:58:53 PM PDT by jongaltsr

Really simple (and may I say - accurate) Easy for EVERYONE to understand - no matter your background, experience and IQ.


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KEYWORDS: bankruptcy; banks; credit; mortgage
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To: jongaltsr

Forget that video. You want a real eye opener? And I mean a truly life changing event?

Watch the video here: http://www.chrismartenson.com/

Click on “Crash course” on the left side of the screen.

It’s actually a series of short videos.

It just may be the most important thing you have seen your entire life. I’m dead serious.


21 posted on 07/16/2010 10:30:24 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy

bfl Thanx RR


22 posted on 07/17/2010 8:27:55 AM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (A "tea bagger"? Say it to my face. ><BCC>)
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To: jongaltsr

Ok, cool. So there was a quota system. Didn’t the banks suffer if they didn’t meet those quotas? How did the government hurt them?


23 posted on 07/17/2010 10:52:52 PM PDT by grapeape (Don't rally around BP. They are endagering the rest of the oil industry.)
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To: grapeape
"Ok, cool. So there was a quota system. Didn’t the banks suffer if they didn’t meet those quotas? How did the government hurt them?>
The government regulates ALL banks. They make the rules and the Banks have to comply. The banks provided the loans and benefited in the short term even if they knew in their mind of minds that this was wrong to lend to high risk borrowers. A few loans (ok) but not as many as congress kept pushing for (They were aiming for 70% home ownership I believe - or something close to that).
So the banks made the loans and for a (very) short term they made good money, then the $hit hit the fan. I know there were thousands upon thousands of bankers who swallowed hard and said - "I knew we shouldn't have made all those risky loans". but it was to late to do much more than update their resumes.

24 posted on 07/18/2010 10:58:59 AM PDT by jongaltsr (It)
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Ok, if a bank decided not to lend money to someone what would the federal government do to the bank? How would the federal govenrment even know about the no-loan?


25 posted on 07/18/2010 7:32:00 PM PDT by grapeape (Don't rally around BP. They are endagering the rest of the oil industry.)
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To: jongaltsr

bump


26 posted on 07/18/2010 7:34:10 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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