That the FBI did not alert anyone to it's findings early that fraud was growing in the subprime market.
That the warnings of Fed governors of subprime problems given to Greenspan never happened.
That the ratings agencies were not being influenced by how much they were making by giving higher ratings to CDO/CMO's, even though they would rate deals put together by "cows".
That financial companies creating the CDO/CMO's thought they had good investments while they ratings-shopped them around to the ratings agencies, giving the money to the agency that would rate what they had with the highest rating.
That the insurance for these investments the financial companies were creating/buying/selling were not called "insurance" (which would be regulated), but "swaps" (which were not regulated) by accident.
That they missed the fact that real estate had in history suffered a decline. Ever.
Sounds reasonable to me...
That the warnings of Fed governors of subprime problems given to Greenspan never happened.
That the ratings agencies were not being influenced by how much they were making by giving higher ratings to CDO/CMO's, even though they would rate deals put together by "cows".
That financial companies creating the CDO/CMO's thought they had good investments while they ratings-shopped them around to the ratings agencies, giving the money to the agency that would rate what they had with the highest rating.
That the insurance for these investments the financial companies were creating/buying/selling were not called "insurance" (which would be regulated), but "swaps" (which were not regulated) by accident.
That they missed the fact that real estate had in history suffered a decline. Ever.
Sounds reasonable to me...