Quote from truehawk:
Unbelievable.
Greenspan did not believe in regulating against fraud? Un$ucking believeable.
And is sounds like the banks were up to their necks in CDSs already at the end of the Regean/Bush administrations.
They did not want to have the CFTC require that the transactions be registered even at that point because it would have become clear that they did not have the reserves to back their bets back in 1994.
Without regulation and enforcement the bad will always drive out the good, because the bad DESIGNED to look better than real can, and is cheaper.