its kane the guy that used to have a red mask[video=youtube;Fk3jUpIoHJ8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk3jUpIoHJ8&feature=related[/video]
Never knew he was a libertarian... interesting.
edit: +rep for who ever can say who this is first.
not really....it wouldn't be the first time this happened..additionally..the first time he ran was for third party and over 20 years ago so not sure you can really count that...If Ron Paul could win...I would think he would have done so by now with the amount of times he has run...foolish to think otherwise!
You didn't call me out on anything. That is your misguided perception. You're too much of a pussy to discuss the issues so make things up.If I'm lying then prove me wrong. It's very simple. I've yet to hear one Ron Paul supporter anywhere mention a single issue they disagree with him on. Even after I've called you out on it you still can't do it.
Oh sure we need to justify ourselves for you? An idiot like you says others dont have independent thoughts. You don't have credibility.If I'm wrong and you guys are capable of independent thought, prove it.
it's quite simple. YOU accused Ron Paul supporters in your troll posts. YOU prove it.It's quite simple. You say I'm lying yet you're proving my point at the same time. Either except that you're a mindless cult member or prove me wrong. It's not complicated.
You did not list the causes. Again you ignored the actual cause and just listed symptoms that happened after the fact. You continue to avoid directly answering my points because you're a pussy.I listed exact causes of the economic crash. With out those two deregulation bills, the economic crisis would not have been possible. That is not addressing symptoms, that is in fact the cause. When you remove the safe guards that protect us from economic instability, it makes it more likely that our economy will become unstable.
All you did was list events that threw gasoline on the fire. None of the things you mentioned were the cause.lol @ your meaningless metaphors. I listed a bunch of specific laws that allowed the economic crisis to become possible, you respond with nothing more than cheap rhetoric.
Yes I did. Reread the post. Only an imbecile would say I didn't.I've noticed you didn't actually dispute anything I said, you just went strait to your talking points. That's because you don't really know what you're talking about and I do.
Not deregulated you complete jackass. Regulated. They put new rules in that bypassed the free market.And those loans would not have been possible until we deregulated Wall St allowing banks to not be liable for the mortgages they handed out.
again you didn't cite anything that caused the crisis. All you said happened afterwards.Citing specific laws and their implications > cheap rhetoric
They were not rated safe investments you moron. They were insured. Period. Lending institutions ALWAYS followed their own lending rules when it comes to risk/reward. Since when do lending institutions ASK if a loan is good or not, They do their own research, something YOU dont do.Seems as if you've completely failed to comprehend my post. That's not at all what I said. What I said is that these loans were only possible because we deregulated Wall St, allowing Wall St to buy these shitty loans from the banks, bundle them, then sell them as AAA rated investments. They were rated as safe investments because we passed a lot "getting government out of the way of business", allowing them to decide what a safe investment was, so they scammed us. Without the ability of banks to sell these loans, they could not have given out the bad loans in the first place because they would have been financially responsible for them.
The point which you continually miss, as well as missing a chromosome, is what you said although may be factual had nothing to do with the CAUSE of the crash.All factually correct and proven statements. But of course you'll ignore all that and continue to pretend I said things I never said.
And? So?It's not magic. It's called regulation. We used to regulate what kind of products Wall St could sell as safe investments, but then we deregulated that market, allowing Wall St to regulate themselves. They then scammed us out of trillions of dollars. It doesn't require super powers to stop them from doing this. Just a majority vote in congress.
That's cause you're an idiot who trolls. You completely ignored the cause of making bad loans in the first place and now you make things up about copying Ron Paul because the person you worked for Obama is a horrible president who backs failed policies. Just like you.You're not using any facts at all. You're calling me names and then following it up by reciting talking points and rhetoric. You're making broad meaningless generalizations while I'm citing specific laws. It's pretty easy to see who knows what they are talking about and who's just copying what Ron Paul is saying here.
LMAO Keep trying. Because of your inability to read and comprehend, don't blame it on me. Only a complete ignore and deny twat like you would continue to avoid the issue. Don't make bad loans in the first place. Don't allow government to manipulate the free market and we avoid the housing crash.Sure I did. It's a fact that the commodities futures modernization act deregulated Wall St allowing them to sell bundled mortgages backed by fraudulent psudo-insurance with a false investment rating. It's a fact that Gramm-Leech-Bliley allowed the banks to buy up this psudo-insurance. It's a fact that when these mortgages failed and it was time to collect this insurance money all at once, they couldn't pay up and this led to the market crash.
See, those are facts. "you're an idiot" is an opinion, not a fact. Gramm-Leech-Bliley is a fact. Understand the difference now?
You made that up again because you're too much of a pussy to discuss the facts. Instead you make things up.lol. More proof you have no clue what you're talking about and all you know how to do is recite what Ron Paul has told you to think.
You really are an idiot. What difference does it make if you are working and cannot purchase a quality product and not working much and cannot afford a quality product. Ignore that again too. Please dont discuss this and continue to ignore and deny.During the war GDP and unemployment returned to pre-crash levels and middle class income was rising. By every metric, the economy had returned to pre-depression levels by 1942. GDP had recovered by 1938 and unemployment followed.
All you've shown is you're a troll pussy who ignores the issues.Thanks for showing us all how brainwashed you are though. Saves me the trouble of doing it myself.
Reagan ran 3 times and he was old as fuck by the time he got elected. Foolish to think otherwise.If Ron Paul could win...I would think he would have done so by now with the amount of times he has run...foolish to think otherwise!
You're full of shit. He admitted in a post he was going to troll. The only reason you allow it is you don't like Ron Paul period. You got no balls."troll" is a word that is used WAY too loosely.
as i told you before, you and dan are adults and can defend yourselves.
dan understands that there is nothing wrong with ronald spamming within ronald threads. it is ronald spamming outside of ronald threads that he objects to. and i agree with him.
The irony being that all of your posts are full of ridicule and ad hominem attacks yet your posts are still here...You're full of shit. He admitted in a post he was going to troll. The only reason you allow it is you don't like Ron Paul period. You got no balls.
You shouldn't be a mod if you play favorites. That's the type of bullshit people are fighting right now. Ignore the rules when you see fit right? Your buddies can do it but others can't. The mod power has gone to that little pointed head of yours.
How foolish is it to keep supporting the status quo? How is business as usual working? You're not the brightest bulb are you? As a matter of fact I doubt the light is even on.If Ron Paul could win...I would think he would have done so by now with the amount of times he has run...foolish to think otherwise!
The irony of you not getting the point yet still yapping. At least my posts are backed up with related facts about the topic and not trolling to get a reaction. Funny how there is no mention from you about the obvious announced troll post. oh the irony.The irony being that all of your posts are full of ridicule and ad hominem attacks yet your posts are still here...
my cat's breath smells like cat food.The irony of you not getting the point yet still yapping. At least my posts are backed up with related facts about the topic and not trolling to get a reaction. Funny how there is no mention from you about the obvious announced troll post. oh the irony.
Have you tried breath mints? They now come in catnip flavor.my cat's breath smells like cat food.
I have proven it, with your help of course. Your failure to be able to cite one instance where you disagree with anything Ron Paul did in 23 years as a congressman is proof that you are not thinking for yourself.it's quite simple. YOU accused Ron Paul supporters in your troll posts. YOU prove it.
No no. With out the laws I cited the financial crisis would have been impossible. It couldn't have happened. The bad loans couldn't have been given out in the first place and the banks wouldn't have started going under. That makes it the cause.All you did was list events that threw gasoline on the fire. None of the things you mentioned were the cause.
Mindful of the concentration of default risk as one of the causes of the S&L crisis, regulators initially found CDS's ability to disperse default risk attractive.[SUP][47][/SUP] In 2000, credit default swaps became largely exempt from regulation by both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which was also responsible for theEnron loophole,[SUP][8][/SUP] specifically stated that CDSs are neither futures nor securities and so are outside the remit of the SEC and CFTC
No they didn't. They REMOVED the government regulators ability to make sure Wall St was selling safe products in favor of letting the free market sort it self out. Then they REMOVED the law that stopped banks from investing in risky Wall St products. You clearly don't understand these laws. I tried to explain it to you in the simplest words I could, but I that wasn't good enough.Not deregulated you complete jackass. Regulated. They put new rules in that bypassed the free market.
No that is factually incorrect. The commodities futures modernization act passed in 2000, Gramm-Leech-Bliley passed in 98 or 99. The crash happened in 2008.again you didn't cite anything that caused the crisis. All you said happened afterwards.
This comes back to you not even being able to comprehend what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the "insurance". Wall ST was allowed to regulate itself because of CFMA, this gave them the ability to give these swaps (the "insurance") an AAA rating. Because these bundled mortgages were backed by AAA "insurance", the banks were able to sell off all these bad loans. The banks couldn't have even given out these bad loans in the first place without CFMA, because without that law they wouldn't have been able to "insure" and sell them off. The banks would have been held financially liable for people who couldn't pay their mortgages. When they were no longer held liable for these mortgages and could just make their profits by giving out a mortgages to anyone and then selling the mortgage, that is what caused the housing crisis. It's the root cause of the whole thing. With out CFMA this whole thing wouldn't have been possible.They were not rated safe investments you moron. They were insured. Period.
That is correct. But CFMA eliminated the risk because they were no longer liable for the results of inability to pay. That's why they were able to give out all these bad loans.Lending institutions ALWAYS followed their own lending rules when it comes to risk/reward. Since when do lending institutions ASK if a loan is good or not, They do their own research, something YOU dont do.
Actually I explained it in detail several times now. You are either incapable of understanding it or ignoring it.You completely ignored the cause of making bad loans in the first place
Yes, we footed the bill. Yes, we spent money we didn't have. But the result was unprecedented prosperity, the peak of the American economy. GDP had recovered, if you don't think that is an accurate measure, fine. Unemployment went down, the poor class shrunk while the middle class grew, American purchasing power was at an all time high, and we had prosperity in every way. By what possible metric can you claim the economy during WW2 was in bad shape?You really are an idiot. What difference does it make if you are working and cannot purchase a quality product and not working much and cannot afford a quality product. Ignore that again too. Please dont discuss this and continue to ignore and deny.
Again GDP is meaning less. Government can dig a ditch and hire another to fill it back up, GDP rises and nothing is accomplished. Fools like you always ignore at what cost yet again. The cost is to the tax payers. WE foot the bill you mindless drone. We spend spend our own money more efficiently. The people get bang for their buck. But keep quoting incorrect government terminology. As dumb as you are you'll do it again.
And that was only possible due the banks ability to sell off these loans thanks to deregulation in the CFMA.All you've shown is you're a troll pussy who ignores the issues.
Again tell me why this is all of a sudden a good thing for lenders to do? Tell me why something that was avoided like the plague by businesses in it for profit are all of a sudden going to make these loans?
Make loans to
1. Zero to low down payment
2. bad history of repayment
3. Not enough income to make the payments
Before the CFMA the SEC and CFTC regulated swaps. The CFMA DEREGULATED the market, removing the governments ability to monitor that market in favor of letting the free market decide for itself. That's what deregulation is. Regulations are what we had BEFORE the CFMA when the SEC and CFTC were in charge of monitoring that market. When you REMOVE the government's ability to monitor a market it's called deregulation, not regulation.They don't you complete fool because there is no profit in it. When you regulate the industry by making rules and REWARDING lenders with special favors when they make those loans you have a regulated catastrophe all CAUSED by big government intervention.
I don't know how the hell you came up with that conclusion. It shows your complete inability to comprehend what I'm saying. I'm saying we should put back the regulations which protected us from this predatory capitalism. Putting back those regulations would insure these loans can't be given out again.Again I'll say this and you ignore it please. So what you're saying is we should make these same type of loans again
Without these two laws these loans would have been impossible to give out in the first place! I'm not sure why this is so complicated for you.but without the doing what you mentioned on those two previous bills you call deregulations and we'll be prosperous.
Glass-Steagal successfully prevented banking instability for 70 years. How you can claim that is failing is beyond me. It's only when we got rid of it by passing Gramm-Leech-Bliley that we ran into trouble.Gee why hasn't anyone else thought of this and implemented it? All these smart people running things and no one has thought of this as a way to sell the foreclosures? Could it be because it would fail like it always has.
Show proof of that. Another thing you make up because you're too weak minded. Keep trying and lying.I have proven it, with your help of course. Your failure to be able to cite one instance where you disagree with anything Ron Paul did in 23 years as a congressman is proof that you are not thinking for yourself.
Once again you're incorrect. The loans were made to help people get housing that otherwise couldn't afford it. The other things you cite had nothing to do with the making of the actual bad loans to unqualified people.No no. With out the laws I cited the financial crisis would have been impossible. It couldn't have happened. The bad loans couldn't have been given out in the first place and the banks wouldn't have started going under. That makes it the cause.
because none of that is about the cause. because you do not have the ability to think beyond what a simple child does you cannot get it.No they didn't. They REMOVED the government regulators ability to make sure Wall St was selling safe products in favor of letting the free market sort it self out. Then they REMOVED the law that stopped banks from investing in risky Wall St products. You clearly don't understand these laws. I tried to explain it to you in the simplest words I could, but I that wasn't good enough.
I ate an apple today and it rained. Eating apples causes rain.No that is factually incorrect. The commodities futures modernization act passed in 2000, Gramm-Leech-Bliley passed in 98 or 99. The crash happened in 2008.
So what you're saying is the regulations allowed banks to make bad loans. Except you still don't get it. Who made it all possible. That's the funny thing. If you knew that you would have already mentioned it. I won't say because i want you to look more foolish that you already do when you prattle on with your bullshit.With out those two laws the crash would not have been possible. The banks would not have had the ability to give out these bad loans nor would they have the ability to invest in credit default swaps.
No that didnt allow them to regulate themselves you idiot. It allowed them to fail and get bailed out. They regulate themselves through profit and loss and the fear of failure. In other words the free market.This comes back to you not even being able to comprehend what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the "insurance". Wall ST was allowed to regulate itself because of CFMA,
The only thing simple is that piece of flesh between your ears. The regulations passed allowed failure and bailouts.this gave them the ability to give these swaps (the "insurance") an AAA rating. Because these bundled mortgages were backed by AAA "insurance", the banks were able to sell off all these bad loans. The banks couldn't have even given out these bad loans in the first place without CFMA, because without that law they wouldn't have been able to "insure" and sell them off. The banks would have been held financially liable for people who couldn't pay their mortgages. When they were no longer held liable for these mortgages and could just make their profits by giving out a mortgages to anyone and then selling the mortgage, that is what caused the housing crisis. It's the root cause of the whole thing. With out CFMA this whole thing wouldn't have been possible.
Is that simple enough for you or do you need a coloring book?
Good for you, at least you are recognizing regulations were involved instead of the free market. They were not able to give out the loans unless an entity got involved. The biggest roadblock to our financial recovery and I bet you don't know what it is and what they did to enable the crash.That is correct. But CFMA eliminated the risk because they were no longer liable for the results of inability to pay. That's why they were able to give out all these bad loans.
Always lying again aren't you. I even said I understood where you were going with your long winded explanation but it wasn't the cause.Actually I explained it in detail several times now. You are either incapable of understanding it or ignoring it.
You're one the biggest fools I've met. You'll say anything. Again what could the public purchase quality wise? keep ignoring that FACT you idiot.Yes, we footed the bill. Yes, we spent money we didn't have. But the result was unprecedented prosperity, the peak of the American economy. GDP had recovered, if you don't think that is an accurate measure, fine. Unemployment went down, the poor class shrunk while the middle class grew, American purchasing power was at an all time high, and we had prosperity in every way. By what possible metric can you claim the economy during WW2 was in bad shape?
Like I said, you're an idiot who doesn't look to the cause you look at symptoms that throw fuel on the fire instead.And that was only possible due the banks ability to sell off these loans thanks to deregulation in the CFMA.
Before the CFMA the SEC and CFTC regulated swaps. The CFMA DEREGULATED the market, removing the governments ability to monitor that market in favor of letting the free market decide for itself. That's what deregulation is. Regulations are what we had BEFORE the CFMA when the SEC and CFTC were in charge of monitoring that market. When you REMOVE the government's ability to monitor a market it's called deregulation, not regulation.
Okay finally you're at least saying don't give those loans out. Took you long enough. But you don't understand the difference between regulating the free market and unregulating. When yoy take away the ability to fail as well as take away safeguards and tell the lenders "you're covered" that is regulation and that isn't the free market.I don't know how the hell you came up with that conclusion. It shows your complete inability to comprehend what I'm saying. I'm saying we should put back the regulations which protected us from this predatory capitalism. Putting back those regulations would insure these loans can't be given out again.
The loans were made possible for one reason. It is the same reason and the same thing that has caused ever single boom and bust in the last 100 years. It is the same answer as to the number one obstacle to overcome if we ever want to have long lasting prosperity. I will be amazed if you knew the answer to this. I will shit turtles for a week if you can answer this one. Please try and answer this. Without the correct answer you'll never have a clue on the business cycle.Without these two laws these loans would have been impossible to give out in the first place! I'm not sure why this is so complicated for you.
Incorrect. You mentioned it earlier by accident when you agreed with me. Don't make the bad loans to unqualified people. It has never worked.Glass-Steagal successfully prevented banking instability for 70 years. How you can claim that is failing is beyond me. It's only when we got rid of it by passing Gramm-Leech-Bliley that we ran into trouble.
No one said it was failing. That's another a lie of yours because you dont get it. It wasn't involved in the cause. It didn't start the process of failure. it aided it no doubt.Glass-Steagal successfully prevented banking instability for 70 years. How you can claim that is failing is beyond me. It's only when we got rid of it by passing Gramm-Leech-Bliley that we ran into trouble.
SOME of the bad loans were made for this reason, sure. But the reason ALL of the bad loans could be made is because the corporation issuing the mortgage could then sell the mortgage to Wall St, eliminating their risk in the event the mortgage defaulted. The reason they were able to do this was because we removed government regulations and allowed Wall St to regulate itself with the CFMA.Once again you're incorrect. The loans were made to help people get housing that otherwise couldn't afford it.
If you think that then you failed to comprehend the facts I put in front of you. I explained in detail how these bad loans were profitable and possible. If you didn't get that, well I can't force you to learn. I explained it 3 or 4 times.The other things you cite had nothing to do with the making of the actual bad loans to unqualified people.
You're calling me names while I'm citing specific laws and explaining exactly what those laws did, so look in the mirror.because none of that is about the cause. because you do not have the ability to think beyond what a simple child does you cannot get it.
You're not understanding any of this. The government never did regulate the qualifications for mortgages. The rated the safety of them as investments when they were bought up by Wall St and sold on the exchange.Since when does the government need to regulate the qualifications of mortgages? Government said if you lower the standards, which will be needed in order to make the loans, you'll be covered. That's regulation you fool.
I can't make you less stupid or ignorant. I give up.I ate an apple today and it rained. Eating apples causes rain.
Yes. That is a proven fact.So what you're saying is the regulations allowed banks to make bad loans.
I have indeed explained what made it all possible. You just aren't understanding for some reason. What made that possible was the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000 which took deregulated the swap ratings allowing Wall St to self rate the swaps.Except you still don't get it. Who made it all possible.
You are a simpleton of the highest order. Seriously. I've been saying this whole time these were terrible loans that should have never been given out in the first place. If the only part of this you're understanding is that these loans were bad, then I probably shouldn't even bother trying to explain this too you anymore. It's clearly too complicated for you.That's the funny thing. If you knew that you would have already mentioned it. I won't say because i want you to look more foolish that you already do when you prattle on with your bullshit.
At least you are agreeing with me that the loans should not have been made. No loans no crash. Good boy you're learning.
As I said, simpleton of the highest order. There was no fear of failure because the free market allowed them to just scam everyone.No that didnt allow them to regulate themselves you idiot. It allowed them to fail and get bailed out. They regulate themselves through profit and loss and the fear of failure. In other words the free market.