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Morality is down on the list somewhere behind criminality, ethically repugnant and fraudulent. People lost homes, self esteem, life savings and a very few enjoyed both a bail out and a golden parachute.Do you really think banks have no culpability in the real estate crash? ...
The topic is whether housing bubble was caused by real estate traders. I said that the bubble was caused by the federal government forcing banks to make bad mortgages. Everyone agrees the banks did wrong from a business standpoint, especially the banks that lost big money on all the stupid loans that they never wanted to make in the first place.
It sounds like you're trying (and not quite succeeding) to say you think what the banks did was morally wrong. Some might say the question belongs on a religion forum but banks are run by people and people are morally good, so morality and banking can't be separated. We ask if banks should obey a law even when they think obedience would cause suffering they feel is morally wrong. Scripture applies:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+13.3&version=KJV said:"For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same."
Whoopie for the fucking banks! Poor duped, benevolent banker forced by a Socialist state to run his business into the ground.
The blame, dear Brutus, is in our stars. In our bankers who were out for themselves not because of their utter lack of morality, but because of their criminal behavior at the ruin of so many private fortunes.
What we're saying here is that poor minorities are always good victims, that governments are always good when they control markets, and bankers are always bad. This means--...The blame, dear Brutus, is in our stars. In our bankers who were out for themselves not because of their utter lack of morality...--that before the '90's bankers were wrong to not loan money to poor minorities.That's sick.
--government was good to force banks to make the loans to poor minorities
--People who could never repay were good to take out the loans.
--Governments are good to make banks foreclose on bad loans.
--Now that the borrowers can't pay back the loans just as the bankers warned, the bankers are evil for foreclosing as required by law.
True, and while millions seems like a lot there're billions of people in the world. Like, what harm could possibly be done by one moron in a thousand?The sad thing is Ex_pat...there are millions of people walking around everyday who believe this very thing.expat_panama said:...Now that the borrowers can't pay back the loans just as the bankers warned, the bankers are evil for foreclosing as required by law. That's sick.
Morality is down on the list somewhere behind criminality, ethically repugnant and fraudulent. People lost homes, self esteem, life savings and a very few enjoyed both a bail out and a golden parachute.Do you really think banks have no culpability in the real estate crash? ...
The topic is whether housing bubble was caused by real estate traders. I said that the bubble was caused by the federal government forcing banks to make bad mortgages. Everyone agrees the banks did wrong from a business standpoint, especially the banks that lost big money on all the stupid loans that they never wanted to make in the first place.
It sounds like you're trying (and not quite succeeding) to say you think what the banks did was morally wrong. Some might say the question belongs on a religion forum but banks are run by people and people are morally good, so morality and banking can't be separated. We ask if banks should obey a law even when they think obedience would cause suffering they feel is morally wrong. Scripture applies:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+13.3&version=KJV said:"For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same."
Whoopie for the fucking banks! Poor duped, benevolent banker forced by a Socialist state to run his business into the ground.
The blame, dear Brutus, is in our stars. In our bankers who were out for themselves not because of their utter lack of morality, but because of their criminal behavior at the ruin of so many private fortunes.
Cheap money, and a stupid LACK of sensible lending regulations caused the real estate meltdown,
RE specualtors merely played by the rules of the moment.
They FLIPPED houses, remember? Meaning they bought them and then SOLD them to people who presumably wanted to LIVE in them.
All true, but the net effect of so much flipping was that we built too many homes, period.
That makes like ZERO sense. Flippers are by definition working with EXISTING homes.
All of a sudden there wasn't anyone to buy because there were too many homes. The only people buying were those trying to flip them. Once it was realized that there was a glut of homes on the market, it all came crashing down.
Lad you need to read a book. You have been wildly misinformed about this event
The real estate crises really kicked into overdrive when so many of those VARIABLE rate mortgages kicked into higher gear.
There still isn't a GLUT of houses...mostly there's a lack of buyers for the existing homes.
Flippers were a SYMPTOM of the real estate madness, not the cause of it.
Flippers were a SYMPTOM of the real estate madness, not the cause of it.
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I challenge you to watch this video and rebut what you see.
Go ahead....if you listen, you just might learn something.
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