"Among the early examples of mortgage-backed securities in the United States were the farm railroad mortgage bonds of the mid-19th century which may have contributed to the panic of 1857
I don't remember a lot of farm or railroad bonds defaulting in 2008, but ok.
$70,000 is what each of us paid for allowing Wall Street to become what it was in the run-up to 2008: a fearsome parasite that sucked the life out of the American economy,
Thanks. That was hilarious! $70,000 is in the title and 8 times in the article. He sounds serious!
$70,000 times 300 million Americans (rough estimate) = $21 trillion.
That author believes some interesting things.
Jeff Spross is video editor and blogger for ThinkProgress.org. Jeff was raised in Texas and received his B.S. in film from the University of Texas, after which he worked for several years as an assistant editor in Austin and Los Angeles. During that time Jeff co-founded, wrote and produced The Regimen, a blog and podcast dealing with politics and culture. More recently, he has interned at The American Prospect and worked as a video producer for The Guardian
As an economist, he's one hell of a film major. Not very good at math though.
Thanks. That was hilarious! $70,000 is in the title and 8 times in the article. He sounds serious!
$70,000 times 300 million Americans (rough estimate) = $21 trillion.
Read more.
Spin less.
How Wall Street cost you $70,000
"This figure comes via
new research from the Federal Reserve.
"The U.S. economy remains well below its pre-2008 growth path.
"And at this point, it looks like we'll never recover.
"The Fed's economists
are not the first people to reach this conclusion.
"But the Fed paper also looks forward, and adds up the total economic output we won't see, thanks to the financial crisis, over the course of the average American's lifetime.
"That's where the $70,000 comes from — it's how much more the average American would have made over the course of his or her lifetime had the financial crisis not wrecked American economic growth."
$70,000 is what each of us paid for allowing Wall Street to become what it was in the run-up to 2008:
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Past tense.
"That's where the $70,000 comes from — it's how much more the average American would have made over the course of his or her lifetime...
Over the course of my lifetime.....future.
If you don't understand the importance difference, you may be a film major.
Over the course of my lifetime.....future.
If you don't understand the importance difference, you may be a film major.
Have you considered ESL classes?
How Wall Street cost you $70,000
"In other words, that $70,000 per person is just the output we lost thanks to Wall Street's existential crisis.
"By focusing on that distinction, the Fed paper tells us something important.
"That $70,000 isn't simply what every American paid because of our government's
ideologically confused macroeconomic response to the Great Recession, and its
astoundingly inadequate efforts at countercyclical stimulus — though that's certainly part of the story.
"Rather, $70,000 is what each of us paid for allowing Wall Street to become what it was in the run-up to 2008: a fearsome parasite that sucked the life out of the American economy, leaving it frail and vulnerable to the illness of the subprime mortgage crisis and corresponding financial panic."
Perhaps the semantic dissonance you're experiencing with this syntax stems from your charter membership in the parasite class?