What you term as bonds were in fact derivatives. They are not interchangeable terms.Wow! You need it proven the crash was because of derivatives? What an astounding profession of ignorance! How could you live through the crash and not know this and still believe you know something about it?Commercial banks could write bad mortgages under Glass-Steagall.
You never did defend your claim that every bank failure during the crisis was due to derivatives. Or that writing derivatives was a guaranteed money maker. Why did you run away from your silly claims?
Amazing.
Well, let's start with AIG. Collapsed due to selling Credit Default Swaps (CDS) against Wall Street's CDOs without backing them up with even a modicum of cash reserves.
CDS and CDO are both derivatives.
Bear Stearns. Collapsed due to CDOs.
Lehman Brothers. Collapsed due to CDOs.
Name a collapsed bank, I'll show you the derivatives that brought them down.
I mentioned about how Wall Street also snookered municipalities into buying derivatives. That's not all. They also snookered insurance companies, pension funds, college endowment funds, 401k funds. All over the world.
Example: Banks Sell Toxic Waste CDOs to Calpers Texas Teachers Fund - Bloomberg
CDOs are bonds. Lehman and Bear failed because they financed huge bond positions, including mortgages and MBS, with overnight loans.
That's like saying a gambler went bankrupt not because he tried the Martingale system, but because the loan sharks cut him off.
They went bankrupt because they bought bonds with borrowed money, the bonds went down in value and they couldn't roll over their loans.
Not because of derivatives.
The MBS that Bear and Lehman loaded up on were bonds.