Posted in Economics & Globalization, tagged accountability, Arabs, assets, bailout, bankruptcy, banks, Bernanke, blame game, Bush Administration, capital, capitalism, cell, cell-based, China, Clinton Administration, commodities, community, comptroller general, contraction, corporate, corporations, credit, David Walker, debt, defaults, deficit, deflation, Depression, deregulation, Dollar, DOW, downturn, economics, economists, ecosystems, efficiency, emergency, Federal Reserve, financial, financial services, fire sale, Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, foreign currency, foreign policy, globalism, greedy, Green, Greenspan, Greifeld, GSE, homeowner, inflation, insolvency, institutions, interest, international, investment, investors, IOUSA, lending, local, Main Street, manufacturing, markets, McMansion, mergers, Mid East, middle class, model, models, mortgages, multinational, NASDAQ, national security, No Bailouts Act, Nordic, organisms, outsourcing, Paulson, Phil Gramm, policy, prepare, president, productivity, protect, rates, recession, redundancy, regional, regulatory, resource shortages, risk, S&P, savings, scapegoats, socialism, sovereign wealth funds, stagflation, subprime, supply chain, supply chains, survivalism, sustainability, Sweden, systems, taxes, taxpayers, Titanic, too big to fail, trade, transcontinental, treasury secretary, trillion, underwriters, unemployment, Wall Street, waste, World Federalism on October 7, 2008|
3 Comments »
When you listen to the pundits and economic experts, you come away with a mixed bag of blame for the economic woes the United States, and by turn the global economy, presently faces.
At first blush, it’s middle class “Annie” with her subprime mortgage, too ignorant or materialistic to admit that she can’t afford the McMansion she lives in.
At second glance, it is the greedy, not-my-problem mortgage broker who knows banks routinely sell off homeowners’ loans to Wall Street investors who will be left holding the bag when homeowners default.
(more…)
Read Full Post »