The Financial Crisis…Simplified

Posted by admin on May 30th, 2010 and filed under subprime mortgage | 25 Comments »

Hank (and Hank and Hank and Hank and Hank) give an extremely simplified account of how we got into such a terribly gigantic financial mess in America.

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25 Responses

  1. TacticusPrime Says:

    @lalkidar Those …
    @lalkidar Those were just the guys peddling white hat’s crap to beanie.

  2. DarkySharkyBG Says:

    Google invest in …
    Google invest in crisis for a new way to advertise!

  3. DarkySharkyBG Says:

    Google invest in …
    Google invest in crisis for a new way to advertise!

  4. mredstriumph Says:

    Why is it that 2/3 …
    Why is it that 2/3 o’all bad mortgages in our financial system were bought by govt agencies or required by govt regulations: Link here: tinyurlDOTcom/ylcxb4n

    If the cause was the PRIVATE sector, how is it that Fannie & Freddie – run by congress – went broke / got the largest bailouts?

    Ask yourself, would any of these assets have had AAA ratings w.o. govt backing? Why did banks suddenly start giving ZERO DOWN loans to ppl who cant make payments? Securitization / MortBSec were invented by HUD!

  5. lalkidar Says:

    Ha ha Ha .. pretty …
    Ha ha Ha .. pretty Good .. The only thing that was missing in this one were the derivative traders .. but nicely done … amazing ,….

  6. 1Beauty1 Says:

    Tiny, massive …
    Tiny, massive global recession….LMFAO

  7. BrutusCass Says:

    Nice way of …
    Nice way of explianing it all.
    Short term thinking is a real human problem

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  9. insanitylives Says:

    4 minute version of …
    4 minute version of House of Cards. :( And I already watched that. It’s really really long. It was the worst class of my life.

  10. RedTribune Says:

    Plz keep in mind, …
    Plz keep in mind, that the money is not lost. If u track it, u will be surprised.
    Those “operation” was long time staged for concentrating economic power in few hands to shift the world into the last decade.
    No revolution, no stand up of truly politicans could stop that.
    Those global money shoving would , under a fair government, easily handed revert.
    -A calculated Civil war would work to their hands.

  11. ObamaWatch1212 Says:

    Yes, which were …
    Yes, which were part of the cavalcade of events that led to the crisis. Once people got away with MBS, they pushed the envelope further.

    The small banks were largely unaffected by this crisis. Only the big banks did all this shit.

    Doesn’t mean the small banks are lending much. Credit is still largely frozen. Until it starts to thaw, we’re not getting out of this recession anytime soon.

  12. tristramshandy3 Says:

    What do you know …
    What do you know about derivatives trading and credit default swaps?

  13. Starlot1 Says:

    Haha, I just …
    Haha, I just realized your calculator was also your telephone

  14. xbogey22 Says:

    what the freak is …
    what the freak is going on? lol

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  16. LittelAERT Says:

    Hank! – you just …
    Hank! – you just did my exsam for me … THANKS :D D DFTBA- not that VB ever will ^ ^

  17. hummusbomb Says:

    awesome
    awesome

  18. timelordthetrain Says:

    Is that a lil …
    Is that a lil Brudder T-Shirt I spy?

  19. 407buddy Says:

    Sorry folks, you …
    Sorry folks, you have been had, peed on, scammed and lied to.
    WallStreet bailouts were rigged and a fraud, market manipulations,
    high freqency trading, flash orders, naked short selling by:
    Goldman, JPM, Cit, MorgStanley, Aig, stay away from this scum.
    The Fed, Comex, ETF’s, Govt data: frauds. Your labor devalued to Zero.
    Pull your money out, walk away from your mortgage and CC card debt,
    We can beat them at their own game, buy pure silver bullion,
    buy local mom and pop. Starve The Beast!

  20. Lightning241 Says:

    The only thing that …
    The only thing that would make it funnier would be to include AIG’s Credit Default Swaps!

    We all seem to have forgotten that the very words mort and gage in French mean death gamble. If the borrower died first, the debt is due on death, which is usually what happens.

    Once in a while, the lenders all die enmasse, and the borrowers win the death gamble. Whats fair for the one is fair for the other. Just let the laws of economics take their course. My personal opinion? Let THEM die!

  21. persey78 Says:

    I was working …
    I was working housing at the time and everyone forgets another part of the equation…realtors and builders. I worked for a major builder and together with the resale market, they sent the prices soaring through the roof. I left the industry because I am a nerdfighter and I couldn’t help make the world suck even more.

  22. illegalcowgirl13 Says:

    Haha… Yeah, the …
    Haha… Yeah, the combined stupidity of the CRA, the loan guys who enforced it, the people who took advantage of it all pretty much get the national middle finger. Of course, dragging the banks in, the government trying to deal with it… Not awesome.

  23. ObamaWatch1212 Says:

    You kind of forgot …
    You kind of forgot the government’s involvement in this one… From the government basically forcing banks to give out loans to default risks to Greenspan’s interest rate policy to the Senate filibustering the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac regulatory bill (due to heavy contributions by the two organizations.)

    And the names AAA and BBB are bond ratings, not the names they gave them. S&P and Moody’s (the bond rating agencies) screwed the pooch on this one.

  24. flomchick13 Says:

    Bahahaha. “Like …
    Bahahaha. “Like elephant diarrhea on a hot day.” xD

  25. 781228XX Says:

    Hats!
    Hats!

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