Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Ron Paul: How We Got Into This Mess

7 comments:

Douglas Porter said...

No, Ron Paul, it was not caused by "bad debt". It was caused by loans that BECAME bad debt, because 4 million lost their jobs and millions have had their salaries and wages reduced. THAT'S WHY. Ron Paul, stop being immoral. Stop lying.

Josh said...

He's not talking about where the bad debt came from, he's just saying liquidating it impossible to avoid without doing more harm.

Douglas Porter said...

He's blaming the banks and their lending practices, when it was clearly an economic change in the number of high paying jobs that caused the problem. If the deregulation was the problem in the first place, the loans would have failed right from the beginning, bacck in the 90s. But they didn't. Why?

Josh said...

The Nasdaq crashed in the 90s. This was a bubble that was inflated by the Fed.

It got out of hand with mortgages, and it takes time for long-term loans to default.

Can you really see no relationship between the lax credit and the financial mess?

Douglas Porter said...

"Can you really see no relationship between the lax credit and the financial mess?"

They are only "lax" after the fact. After the failures already happened. Therefore, are you really going to blame it all on the FED without looking at why the loans were defaulted on in the first place?

Josh said...

There`s noone out there saying that these loans were defaulted on because 5 years ago the individual that took it had a job and now doesn`t. The loans were made to people who didn`t have jobs in the first place, or didn`t make much more money.

Chris said...

"There`s noone out there saying that these loans were defaulted on because 5 years ago the individual that took it had a job and now doesn`t. The loans were made to people who didn`t have jobs in the first place, or didn`t make much more money."

That's garbage, Josh. The reality is that NO ONE is look at the reasons why so many people defaulted. THAT'S A FACT>