Mortgages and the Federal Reserve Bank
There has never been more confusion about mortgages than at this particular time in history. The collapse of the world economy can, in broad strokes, be laid at the feet of three parties; the Federal Reserve, mortgage lenders, and American home buyers. But mostly it was the fault of the private, for-profit company that manages our money supply - the Federal Reserve Bank.
The Federal Reserve is the party most responsible for destroying the global economy. This private corporation, charged by Congress with managing our money supply, cannot be trusted. When Jon Stewart repeatedly asked Jim Cramer, “Who thought a 30-1 leverage was a good idea?” he was referring to the Federal Reserve upping the deposit-to-loan ratio to 30-1 for American banks. The answer to who did it, Jon, is: The Federal Reserve Bank. President Barack Obama’s failure to replace Ben Bernake at Treasury and the failure of Congress to set about replacing the Federal Reserve Banking System are unconscionable.
Mortgage contracts were made with such low standards that mortgage brokers tried selling a subprime mortgage to every living, breathing person they spotted.. Millions who trusted their financial advisors had no idea there money was getting tied up in mortgages to unqualified people.
These shaky mortgages were then bundled and sold to financial firms as ‘asset backed paper,’ the now infamous ‘toxic assets’ we, the taxpayer, are buying from the banks. An other word for a so called toxic asses is a liability. And that’s what the governement is buying. Your tax money is being used to the American government.
Finally, the people who sit and tell CNN cameras that they didn’t know that they had an adjustable rate mortgage are simply too stupid to own a home. If not, things that are bad now are going to get worse and they may not ever get better again. Does that sound pessimistic? Good, because if you are not pessimistic now, you are a fool.
Mijnadviseur on April 11th 2009 in Real Estate