Quote from MKTrader:
Only true because businesses had responded to the environment they were given. The blame belongs to those who gave the incentives/punishment leading to the collapse. For example:
- Fed (artificially low interest rates + Greenspan/Bernanke put);
- Washington (again, bailouts and expected bailouts led to excessive risk-taking);
- Fannie/Freddie (Frank and others scoffed at warnings for years from the likes of Ron Paul);
- CRA, ACORN bully tactics and other means to enourage lending to certain groups and lower lending standards to ridiculous levels (this grew quietly and violently in Clinton era),
- etc., etc. ad nauseum.
+1
include the early conveined presidental economic panel which removed Glass Stegal regulations and restrictions as well as all the other releasing from constraints that occurred early in the first term of Bush-II, which directly contributed to the private sector acting in the worse possible manner
however, the focus of this thread remains
finding a way to put millions of American citizens back to work, whether through a massive public works program as was done (out of desperation and great resistance against the programs) in the 1930's....
caring for our fellow citizens remains the focus,
even the Congress couldn't roast, toast and vilify Geitner yesterday in those all day hearings sufficient to satisfy their disgust....
similarly we won't agree on much regarding economic policies that have already occurred, in our heated discussions on this thread....
however, the focus of this thread remains
finding a way to put millions of American citizens back to work, whether through a massive public works program as was done (out of desperation and great resistance against the programs) in the 1930's....