Greenspan says dump Dodd-Frank

HFNY

And increase capital requirements. I agree:

ft.com/cms/s/0/4d55622a-44c8-11e5-af2f-4d6e0e5eda22.html#axzz3jCqRUKBI

HFNY

Note it may require answering two survey questions to read the full article but giving you basement dwellers full disclosure so you don't complain (or can't complain much since I know you will anway....water is wet).

HFNY

Lots of good nuggets at the end of his opinion piece:

"An important collateral pay-off for higher equity in the years ahead could be a significant reduction in bank supervision and regulation.

Lawmakers and regulators, given elevated capital buffers, need to be far less concerned about the quality of the banks’ loan and securities portfolios since any losses would be absorbed by shareholders, not taxpayers. This would enable the Dodd-Frank Act on financial regulation of 2010 to be shelved, ending its potential to distort the markets — a potential seen in the recent decline in market liquidity and flexibility.

Well-capitalised banks need to be less fettered in their primary economic function: to assist in the directing of the nation’s scarce savings to fund our most potentially productive investments. Funding cutting-edge capital investments will engender growth in national productivity and standards of living."

2001400ex

A banking guy that oversaw a period of deregulation that preceded a financial collapse wants less regulation. Shocking.

RaceBannon

2001400ex said:

A banking guy that oversaw a period of deregulation that preceded a financial collapse wants less regulation. Shocking.

A fag who pimped out of his house is who I want writing laws

DugtheDoog

How about start by re-instating Glass-Stiegel. Shit never would have happened in the first place.

HFNY

You may not remember but Clinton was the President when Glass Stegall was repealed:

2001400ex said:

A banking guy that oversaw a period of deregulation that preceded a financial collapse wants less regulation. Shocking.

PurpleJ

People also forget that the Clinton administration oversaw the destruction of home lending standards that planted the seed for the subprime crisis.

RaceBannon

PurpleJ said:

People also forget that the Clinton administration oversaw the destruction of home lending standards that planted the seed for the subprime crisis.

who knew that forcing banks to issue mortgages to people who didn't qualify would be a problem? the relaxed standards were also used by investors to over extend

PurpleJ

RaceBannon said:

PurpleJ said:

People also forget that the Clinton administration oversaw the destruction of home lending standards that planted the seed for the subprime crisis.

who knew that forcing banks to issue mortgages to people who didn't qualify would be a problem? the relaxed standards were also used by investors to over extend

It made for great campaign rhetoric. Kind of like the idea of "free" healthcare. Now all the fucktards in my generation are jumping on the Bernie train for "free" college education. Never mind the fact that they already went deep into debt for their degrees in Barista Studies. They should really start teaching basic econ in high schools again.

AZDuck

Greenspan is a dumbass and should not be listened to on any topic of importance. That's how wrong and dumb he was about the 2008 financial crash.

Alan Greenspan, once viewed as the infallible architect of U.S. prosperity, was called on the carpet yesterday, pilloried by a congressional committee for decisions that contributed to the financial crisis devastating world markets.

The former chairman of the Federal Reserve said the crisis had shaken his very understanding of how markets work, and agreed that certain financial derivatives should be regulated -- an idea he had long resisted.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102300193.html

OP is akin to listening to Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz on Middle East policy. Their failures should discredit them.

CheersWestDawg

The cause of the Great Recession and what happened in the fall of 2008 is the same thing:

Lax credit standards.

Check the facts. Case Closed. End of discussion.

RaceBannon

We should elect Hillary based on her Middle East success.

Huh?

AZDuck

RaceBannon said:

We should elect Hillary based on her Middle East success.

Huh?

I think Hillary's record as SoS is absolutely fodder for her candidacy.

PurpleThrobber

AZDuck said:

RaceBannon said:

We should elect Hillary based on her Middle East success.

Huh?

I think Hillary's record as SoS is absolutely fodder for her candidacy.

She's going to play the "I was just doing my job/ what Obama told me to do" card.

AZDuck

PurpleThrobber said:

AZDuck said:

RaceBannon said:

We should elect Hillary based on her Middle East success.

Huh?

I think Hillary's record as SoS is absolutely fodder for her candidacy.

She's going to play the "I was just doing my job/ what Obama told me to do" card.

That's fine. And people can judge her leadership based upon that if she does.

HFNY

Sure Greenspan left rates too low for too long but how does that invalidate his sensible opinion piece on Dodd-Frank?

And the SEC should be responsible for regulating CDS, not the Fed.

Lastly Carter started the process of misallocating capital to the residential housing sector, Clinton foolishly put it on steroids, and W. Bush screwed up by continuing it ("ownership society") before trying to reverse course but it was largely too late.

The home mortgage interest deduction and all of the various Federal Agencies that exist to offer credit are the bigger distortions / misallocation of capital around.

AZDuck said:

Greenspan is a dumbass and should not be listened to on any topic of importance. That's how wrong and dumb he was about the 2008 financial crash.

Alan Greenspan, once viewed as the infallible architect of U.S. prosperity, was called on the carpet yesterday, pilloried by a congressional committee for decisions that contributed to the financial crisis devastating world markets.

The former chairman of the Federal Reserve said the crisis had shaken his very understanding of how markets work, and agreed that certain financial derivatives should be regulated -- an idea he had long resisted.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102300193.html

OP is akin to listening to Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz on Middle East policy. Their failures should discredit them.

priapism

Good news - the U.S. will never default:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_N0Cwg5iN4