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The event that created the sub prime mortgage world, but more importantly the mortgage becoming a diravitive was signed into law 11/12/1999. an event that I agreed with, greed took the event and has caused the pain, not Clinton
But to blame W for this is sick
Clinton repeal of Glass-Steagall faulty as seen today
Written on March 17th, 2008 in Government Positions
This is just one of our articles referencing the financial crisis, crash of the housing market, subprime, and more:
Even as the Fed helped to stabilize the situation over the weekend, the stock market is down again on Monday morning. What is alarming from our standpoint is that CIT, Lehman, and National City Corporation all are down by 25 to 31 percent as we write this. Liquidity questions surround Lehman after what we learned from Bear Sterns. Even JPMorgan needed help and considerations from the Fed to buy Bear Sterns for a reported $2 a share.
This issue now goes far beyond the mortgage blues of some lenders. There is no way that crazy wild-eyed mortgage brokers with lax standards could cause worldwide problems like this. President Bill Clinton repealed the Glass-Steagall Act which had prevented the coupling of investment banking and lending. To be exact, on November 12, 1999, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. One of the effects of the repeal is it allowed commercial and investment banks to consolidate. Economists have criticized the action.
Of course economists criticized the way in which the Bush administration manufactured money by allowing anybody and everybody the opportunity to buy or refinance homes. Economist Robert Kuttner has criticized the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act as contributing to the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis.
There is always plenty of blame to go around but always rememeber the guy driving the bus when it went off the cliff is ultimately responsible.
A Republican Congress passed Gramm (R, Texas), Leach (R, Iowa), Bliely (R, Virginia) (GLB,, 1999) repealing part of Glass-Steagall Act (1993) - G-A act was passed and signed by a Democratic Congress and Demoractic President. Glass-Steagall prohibited any one institution from acting as an combination of an investment bank, commercial bank and an insurance company; the passage of GLB included a repeal of conflict of interest prohibitions and provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956.
Clinton may have been driving the bus when the GLB was passed but Bush knew the mechanics no longer maintained the bus and continue to drive it right off the cliff.