(12-08-2017, 09:49 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(12-08-2017, 09:18 PM)hb1148 Wrote: That's an utter myth. The 2008 financial crisis was precipitated by the deregulation of the financial industry by Republican lawmakers when they passed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed part of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933 and allowed (among other things) banks to package subprime mortgages as investment instruments and collude with ratings agencies to rate those instruments as "AAA" investments. That lead directly to the downfall of Lehman Brothers which started the panic that ultimately led to the "Great Recession".

You can hurt yourself reaching that hard.

Have you seen the CRA commitment chart? It's a flat line until 1992. The Democrat-led congress, and Clinton, began enforcing banks to adhere to the CRA. The banks almost never loaned to anyone (that was a risk) before 1992, and the amount they began loaning skyrockets starting from 1992 to 2008. 

What you're talking about contributed to the mess. It, however, is not to blame for the crash. The investments into the bad loans didn't cause the crash; it was the trillions upon trillions of dollars worth of bad loans.

You can find videos on YouTube showing reports from as early as 2000 that show Republicans warning Democrats and Democrats accusing Republicans of fear-mongering. So, how is is that we have a correlation of subprime loans to the CRA commitments starting at 1992, but the problem started in 1999 when Republicans were warning Democrats in 2000? It doesn't make sense.

Reaching? No. The bank and investment deregulation was the cause of the crash, there's really no longer any debate about that. Subprime lending should have never led to the problems it led to. If market forces had driven lending, the excesses and predatory lending would never have happened. But due to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act, the ability of financial companies to package those loans as investments and sell them to unsuspecting buyers (thus giving them the ability to cash in while pushing risk off to mom and pop) led subsequently to excessive subprime lending which then led to an unsustainable bubble which then ultimately caused the panic of 2008. In spite of what Rush Limbaugh might have told you, the CRA didn't force banks to make subprime loans, quite the contrary it was simply a measure of a financial institutions performance based on their participation in local community development activities. Corporate greed led to the subprime lending crisis.

And believe me, I know, I was in the middle of it back then.

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