There has never been more confusion about mortgages than at this particular time in history. The global economic system has been collapsed by people who were confused about mortgages and didn’t know it. Whose fault was it? It was the fault of the sub-prime home buyer. It was the fault of the sub-prime mortgage broker. It was the fault of lazy financial advisors who put their client’s money in asset backed paper that turned out to be worth whatever recycled paper goes for and no more. Of these, the most dangerous and most responsible party, the Federal Reserve Bank, is also the malefactor fingered the least. Indepth article about geld lenen met bkr in Dutch.
The Federal Reserve is the party most responsible for destroying the global economy. This private corporation, charged by Congress with managing our money supply, cannot be trusted. When Jon Stewart repeatedly asked Jim Cramer, “Who thought a 30-1 leverage was a good idea?” he was referring to the Federal Reserve upping the deposit-to-loan ratio to 30-1 for American banks. The answer to who did it, Jon, is: The Federal Reserve Bank. And they should pay. Congress must rescind the Bank’s charter and replace it with a central bank controlled by the Treasury Department.
Mortgage brokers concocted obtuse mortgage contracts and then began shilling subprime loans to unqualified buyers. With interest rates at historic lows (until now, and God help us), mortgages were made to people that mortgage brokers knew could not afford the payments if interest rates were to return to their historic averages.
When the FRB raised the ratio it flooded the market with more money, which went out in loans to unqualified buyers which were then bundled as the infamous ‘asset backed paper.’. Question: What is another word for a toxic asset? Answer: A liability. 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. I cannot conceive of people so clueless that they make the largest financial commitment of their lifetimes without reading the document they are signing – or at least paying a lawyer or advisor to do so. Pity them, yes. Bail them out? Not a chance.
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