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The banks helped create the 2008 financial crisis by loosening mortgage lending standards in the name of "racial justice". Citigroup needed a bailout but seems to have learned nothing. There are intractable racial differences in IQ and criminality that make gaps impossible to close. Until the pandemic lockdowns, Trump's policies were reducing unemployment among all Americans, including blacks.

Citigroup says this on its site:

"[I]f four key racial gaps for Blacks — wages, education, housing, and investment — were closed 20 years ago, $16 trillion could have been added to the U.S. economy. And if the gaps are closed today, $5 trillion can be added to U.S. GDP over the next five years.

These gaps exist based on systemic issues that caused and continue to cause discrimination against Blacks over the years. The gaps in many cases remain wide 60 years after the Civil Rights Movement. In some cases, including in homeownership rates and college degree attainment, the gaps are wider now than in the 1950’s and 1960’s. For each of the gaps faced by Blacks, we identify the degree of the gap between Blacks and whites in wages, labor segmentation, education, wealth, housing and investment and identify the impact closing each gap would have on the U.S. economy. Finally, we outline how we believe governments, corporations, and individuals can work together to eliminate these gaps for good."

1 posted on 09/23/2020 7:44:51 AM PDT by karpov
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#CMTSU!


2 posted on 09/23/2020 7:46:28 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Dammit, now white people actually will have to pay back their loans. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.

3 posted on 09/23/2020 7:46:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The new,y appointed CEO is....yep, a middle aged white woman, the sweet spot for elite virtue signaling.


4 posted on 09/23/2020 7:47:10 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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If I owned stock in Citigroup, I’d dump it like it was on fire.


5 posted on 09/23/2020 7:47:20 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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The “gap” is the “ambition gap”.


6 posted on 09/23/2020 7:48:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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yup....the stupid don’t learn from their mistakes...


7 posted on 09/23/2020 7:50:09 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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The US could have saved how much by not enacting the welfare state.

How much has that cost the country? And is still costing the country?

8 posted on 09/23/2020 7:51:22 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Look...you can lead a horse to water but....

You cannot improve wages, unless the job holder has education. We’ve dumped trillions into schools and nothing changes. We tried desegregation and it failed. Grants etc.

They said we didn’t understand their culture enough to fill in the gaps, so we let them dictate the terms. It has failed too.

Maybe, maybe it really is just the mindset of their own culture and their unwillingness to change out of a failed society? If you keep making bad choices, refuse advantages of opportunity...that is not white culture’s problem. It is your problem, your attitude, and your myth.


9 posted on 09/23/2020 7:51:37 AM PDT by EBH (My family fought for Liberty in 1776 and we will do so again. God Save the Republic.)
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Acutally, the banking crisis can be laid at the doorstep of Andrew Coumo - link
10 posted on 09/23/2020 7:51:39 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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11 posted on 09/23/2020 7:52:02 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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how bout we compare the gaps between whites and asians....are they going to do anything about that??


12 posted on 09/23/2020 7:52:17 AM PDT by ealgeone
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They obviously watch SNL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ


14 posted on 09/23/2020 7:54:12 AM PDT by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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This has little to do with anti-racism. The banks need a new pool of borrowers PDQ because the millennials are not buying mortgages.

What is the next best pool? blacks and other minorities.

This could well be a debacle if the employment situation declines. There is also a lot of financial education that needs to be done before the banks start loading up people with large amounts of debt. There will not be debt forgiveness.

20 posted on 09/23/2020 8:02:34 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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People of every color will say , not good time to move my money


22 posted on 09/23/2020 8:08:46 AM PDT by butlerweave
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FU and your ‘reckoning on race’!


24 posted on 09/23/2020 8:14:22 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Interesting definition Citigroup has of “antiracist” - to give preferential treatment to one race.

Then again, that’s the definition most mentally challenged leftists have.


25 posted on 09/23/2020 8:21:03 AM PDT by Pravious
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A billion in mortgages that wouldn’t have been written otherwise,meaning the applicants are not credit worthy. So they can count on foreclosing on half of them.


26 posted on 09/23/2020 8:22:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Thanks To Biden Voters Oregon Is Now A Battleground State!)
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This bank came out strongly against the 2nd Amendment after the Florida school shooting. I cancelled the credit card I had with them as a result, and let them know that was why. They continue to show that this was the right move.
27 posted on 09/23/2020 8:37:21 AM PDT by nhbob1
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wages, education, housing, and investment

listen stooopid... it's EDUCATION that drives the other three, and you can't make them learn if they don't want too!!! that be acting white and stuff

28 posted on 09/23/2020 8:40:53 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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I would cancel my Citibank account but, oh wait!, I did that years ago. I did it after they raised my credit card rate 7% for no other reason than they were going through the housing bubble collapse and needed liquid assets.


33 posted on 09/23/2020 9:27:56 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (COVID infects the Democrat brain and makes them drunk with power.)
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