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To: SeekAndFind
Has anyone out there ever stop to consider if what they’re doing has any real social or economic value ? Are they really creating anything ?

To a certain extent, I really don't care. However, I expect the line to be drawn at zero - once the company takes such risks that they can implode the system, it's time to look at how risk management should be monitored and regulated.

18 posted on 09/15/2009 7:46:59 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
"once the company takes such risks that they can implode the system, it's time to look at how risk management should be monitored and regulated. "

Wall Street did not create risk of bad loans --- the modification of Community Reinvestment Act in 1998 did. It mandated a progressively increasing number of bad loans to be issued. As a result homeonwership rate increased from a stable 65% to 69% --- that's loans to 12M Americans we are dealing with. Wall Street is like a car --- it drives you as directed but it does not tell you were to go. It accommodated the government (with securitization, etc) but it did not create the problem.

Finally, you hold a typical socialist belief that the regulators KNOW and we only need to employ them. They do not, and have a lesser chance of knowing that a decentralized (free-market) management of the economy.

41 posted on 09/15/2009 10:48:35 AM PDT by TopQuark
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