Posted on 12/19/2014 10:21:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sure, she’s liked by conservative democrats - all two of them.
54 percent of working-class whites "strongly" believed that "corporations make too much profit," while just 28 percent believed that those profits were "fair and reasonable." By a margin of better than 2 to 1, those respondents also said that Wall Street hurts the economy more than it helps it.What are their FR nicks?
She has “crossover appeal” ????? I find her revolting.
Person responsible is who signed the bill.
From the American Prospect, what would we expect?
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Bingo! It was Clintoon who signed the The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, November 11, 1999. The dominoes were set. However, I can't really say it was Phil Gramm alone who caused the collapse. It was a host of many players who worked to set up the dominoes. We can learn that it takes a clueless President to set that one domino to break the system. A President like Elizabeth Warren would be a catastrophe. She is hellbent on killing the Capitalist system. We need to keep her away from the levers of power in Washington DC. It is the responsible thing by using what history has taught us to make our choices. We can learn from history as this article from Fact Check points out:
"So who is to blame? There’s plenty of blame to go around, and it doesn’t fasten only on one party or even mainly on what Washington did or didn’t do. As The Economist magazine noted recently, the problem is one of "layered irresponsibility … with hard-working homeowners and billionaire villains each playing a role." Here’s a partial list of those alleged to be at fault:
* The Federal Reserve, which slashed interest rates after the dot-com bubble burst, making credit cheap.
* Home buyers, who took advantage of easy credit to bid up the prices of homes excessively.
* Congress, which continues to support a mortgage tax deduction that gives consumers a tax incentive to buy more expensive houses.
* Real estate agents, most of whom work for the sellers rather than the buyers and who earned higher commissions from selling more expensive homes.
*The Clinton administration, which pushed for less stringent credit and downpayment requirements for working- and middle-class families.
* Mortgage brokers, who offered less-credit-worthy home buyers subprime, adjustable rate loans with low initial payments, but exploding interest rates.
* Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who in 2004, near the peak of the housing bubble, encouraged Americans to take out adjustable rate mortgages.
* Wall Street firms, who paid too little attention to the quality of the risky loans that they bundled into Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), and issued bonds using those securities as collateral.
* The Bush administration, which failed to provide needed government oversight of the increasingly dicey mortgage-backed securities market.
* An obscure accounting rule called mark-to-market, which can have the paradoxical result of making assets be worth less on paper than they are in reality during times of panic.
* Collective delusion, or a belief on the part of all parties that home prices would keep rising forever, no matter how high or how fast they had already gone up.
The U.S. economy is enormously complicated. Screwing it up takes a great deal of cooperation. Claiming that a single piece of legislation was responsible for (or could have averted) the crisis is just political grandstanding. We have no advice to offer on how best to solve the financial crisis. But these sorts of partisan caricatures can only make the task more difficult."
–by Joe Miller and Brooks Jackson
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