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[...] Mr. Birnbaum and Mr. Murray artfully weaved a terrific narrative of the drama and nuances behind closed doors of powerful figures such as Rep. Daniel Rostenkowski, an Illinois Democrat and the larger-than-life chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. . Just as the growth and expansion of the tax code swelled throughout the late '60s and '70s, picking winners and losers along the way, the seeds of the housing bubble that would soon burst were planted when the federal government instructed banks and local financial institutions to loan money to purchase homes that individuals couldn't afford.
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Although it has been more than a year since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers shook the financial markets, it is too soon to determine how the overhaul of the banking system will play out. This article discusses how much the commercial mortgage market has grown, both absolutely and relative to the whole economy, and the implications of a correction in the sector. The explosion of debt in recent years helps explain the current financial crisis. Between 1952 and 1996, the ratio of debt-to-GDP for the private non-financial sector expanded at about 1% per year. The improved liquidity in the banking sector proved to be too much of a good thing. Excessive leverage in the banking system was the lynchpin of the credit crisis that led to the near-collapse of the banking industry in 2008. Delever...
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The instability of the wholesale banking system [that is, the collapse or new collapse of big banks like Bear Steams, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual and Citigroup] has been greater than anyone anticipated. In September, 40/86 had more than $100 million invested with Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual and American International Group, the insurance company rescued by the government. The financial sector has historically been seen as the safest most secure segment of the corporate bond market.
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Geithners "public-private partnership" to jump-start bank lending would invite the same high rollers who caused the collapse to speculate in securitized bonds, this time with guarantees from the Federal Reserve. The seemingly insoluble problem of turning currently worthless mortgage-backed bonds back into loans can be solved using the government's power of eminent domain. Recently, economist Alan Blinder, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and occasional contributor to these pages, told The Wall Street Journal, There has been somewhat of a collapse of the banking system, but an almost total collapse of the shadow banking system.
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While it is true that the stock market crash in October of 1929 was a major cause of the Great Depression, what really spread panic, fear and depression throughout the United States'economy - and by extension the global economy - was not the collapse of America's securities trading system, but the collapse of its banking system. And, to many historians that tailspin began this week (Dec. 11) in 1930 when New York's Bank of the United States closed down. But first, the background.
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Free markets fear a banking crisis. Collapse likely would threaten the fiat monetary system and worldwide economic depression - - the breeding ground of totalitarian governments. Over the past 40 years, Western central banks have enabled their spendthrift politicians to undertake a massive transfer of wealth from private savers to the state. The one major exception has been the youngest and now the second-most powerful central bank -- the European Central Bank (ECB).
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WASHINGTON - Ever since its creation in 1913, the Federal Reserve has grappled with a daunting political contradiction. The Fed is charged with preventing the collapse of the banking and financial system, whose health is essential for the "real economy" of production and jobs. But financial bailouts usually occur when mistakes or misdeeds by bankers and investment professionals make them public pariahs.
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Long before the collapse of the US investment banking system in late 2008, once-dominant and important US industries like semiconductors, machine tools, printed circuit boards, consumer electronics, auto parts, appliances, furniture, clothing, telecommunications equipment, home furnishing and many others suffered their own economic collapse, sputtering anemically in a global economic system that continues to be stacked against US-based producers.
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Although home mortgages are usually a fairly safe investment, Wall Street discovered too late that the subprime loans were made without the standard safeguards. Because home prices were rising, mortgage companies did not require the conventional down payment to allow for a possible downturn in prices. To attract a larger volume of buyers, mortgage banks offered adjustable rate mortgages with very low entry rates. However, when interest reset at a much higher rate, many homeowners could no longer afford the cost of debt service. It was appropriate for the government to prevent the bankruptcy of Bear Stearns so that the nation's banking system would not collapse. However, it would have been even more appropriate for the government to intervene to prevent the home mortgage from becoming su...
