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Also, why are you guys ignoring the S&L crisis? Surely that's an extremely plausible explanation for wealth disparity beginning in the 1980s.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporate_Welfare/S%26L_Bailout.html

All this money will come from taxpayers and will go to the people who bought the bonds. So, ultimately, the S&L bailout amounts to a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary people to investors (most of whom are wealthy)-as well as to the crooks who looted the S&Ls. (Few of them were convicted, by the way, and the average sentence of those who were was less than two years.)

tatupu70 says

If I had made an argument, you might have a point.. I posted the chart to REFUTE another posters point--not to support any point of mine.

There is a difference there which you seem incapable of grasping.

What are you talking about? I grasped that just fine. I KNOW you were trying to refute the other posters' point. All I'm saying is that you FAILED to refute it. Duh.

You're all over the map here, tatupu. You've changed tack so many times, you aren't even able to keep track of where you were.

Homeboy says

I KNOW you were trying to refute the other posters' point.

lol. You didn't seem to KNOW it when you wrote this:

Homeboy says

Tatupu - time to just admit that your argument didn't hold water.

You sure seemed to think it was MY argument then...

Seriously--you have been all over the place. Just give it up already.

tatupu70 says

Homeboy says

I KNOW you were trying to refute the other posters' point.

lol. You didn't seem to KNOW it when you wrote this:

Homeboy says

Tatupu - time to just admit that your argument didn't hold water.

You sure seemed to think it was MY argument then...

Seriously--you have been all over the place. Just give it up already.

A refutation takes the form of an ARGUMENT. They are not opposites. What are you, stupid?

Bellingham Bill says

Reality says

FED stimulated bubble of the 20's

[citation needed]

There are technical ways that they do it suffice to say it is done by lowering the reserve requirements. I can give you the links but I guarantee you will not read them. This created excess credit money supply which cause the run up to 1929.

Additionally 1/3 of the banks in 1930 went bankrupt, which lowered the money supply by 1/3. Yet the FED did nothing to raise the money supply.

The most culpable organization in the 2008 housing meltdown was the FED via Greenspan.

The FED does not need any conspiracy theories because they are not theories. Someone on this forum was saying that Bernanke deserved a blow job for saving the economy, the only head he deserves is his own on a platter, High Treason indeed. IMO they control the world through the central banks. Don't be surprised when the next chairman talks about a new world currency.

I mean Patrick main point is stay out the debt trap, which is the FED's stock in trade.

sbh says

The job of the Fed is to lean against economic imbalance by influencing the cost of credit and by regulating financial institutions.

Such as lining the banks pockets with trillions of printed money, bailing out failed entities who rewarded themselves with million dollar bonuses so that they can continue to do so and desperately maintaining the housing market on steroids? Fuck yeah, that's what I call leaning against economic imbalances!

sbh says

But bonuses paid are an injustice perpetrated by private capital corporations, a thing you appear to champion.

They can do with their money whatever they want, even if I disapprove of it. But they should not get taxpayer subsidies for that crap, but go through orderly bankruptcy instead when they screwed up.

sbh says

Until Americans rid themselves of their debt addiction and their wretched grasp of finance they have no grounds for complaint about a reserve bank that regulates/manipulates the cost of credit.

Likely the people opposing the Fed are mostly fiscal conservatives who are not debt addicted, that's why there are not enough of them, yet.

sbh says

I have made a six figure income only twice in my life: my last two years of work. And I have only once needed a mortgage to buy a house. Their costs: 300k; 350k; 650k; 850k. Over thirty-five years of sole proprietorship I have NEVER been paid more than three times a year. THAT, my conservative friend, is true fiscal conservatism and responsibility.

Nothing wrong with that! Except for that I am not conservative. Those labels don't make much sense nowadays but if I had to slap one on I'd go with libertarian.

sbh says

As a population we Suck at personal finance

Sure seems like it.

sbh says

Take control and quit playing the blame game.

Thank you, I already did long ago. But I want to live in a solid, free market-driven economy, and the Fed's crony capitalism is wrecking its foundation, the middle class .

Can you not see the name "American Savings and Loan" there? Are my posts coming out in invisible ink?

Talk about a honey-coated deal. In 1988, Robert M. Bass Group Inc. paid just $400 million to take over failing American Savings Bank, with its $16.5 billion in assets. To sweeten the arrangement, federal regulators threw in tax breaks and subsidies worth $3 billion to the thrift. Since then, Texas investor Robert M. Bass and his partners have garnered an estimated $244 million in profits from Irvine (Calif.)-based American, already recouping more than half their investment.

The Bass deal was among 199 savings and loan rescues in 1988, the thrift crisis' first big wave of bailouts. Sizable government subsidies to many of the buyers touched off vitriolic criticism, which helped produce a massive shakeup in federal thrift regulation in 1989. Congress is still upset by the hefty return some buyers have been receiving on their investments. To Representative Jim Leach (R-Iowa), a House Banking Committee member, the deals are "morally repugnant."

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1991-02-10/were-these-deals-too-sweet-to-last

I know what a strawman is. Obviously you don't.

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