Quote from achilles28:
Buffet sounds like he's fear mongering passage of the bill.
Banks will lend, just at much higher rates from whats parlayed currently.
If that means effective 10-15% business credit lines to recoup their billions in off-book CDO losses, then its 10 or 15%.
That would spell a market crash and severe recession.
Notice all this shit (sorry to be so crude), is caused by the Banks.
They voted 1% Fed Funds, they created the Bubble, they wrote horrible mortgages, they bought it, then, on the downside, refuse to inject credit into the market so to recapitalize their own losses (thereby exacerbating the already bad housing market and their own underwater Balance sheets!), then, if we don't bail, will jack rates even more, which will tank their balance sheets even more as the economy/housing craps even more, and that spells an even longer wait until banks recapitalize off the spread.
Its entirely the banks fault yet they hold all the power, and continually act in their own interest at the expense of the Country.
But thats the way our "System" (read: Ponzi Scheme) was set up. Because the Great Inheritors were stupid and naive.