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Do you want to learn how we slid into today's financial meltdown?

Read this 1999 New York Times article.

This NYT story fills a gap and identifies how the world went bust.

Only one class of people is responsible for the global financial meltdown. Few of its members reside on Wall Street, they are not most Americans, and do not include many investors. This one class is definitely not the capitalist class.
Yes, you are smart enough to understand.

If US-based borrowers were meeting their contractual obligations, there would not be a global financial meltdown -- nor any problem at all.

 
Get this.
Make no mistake.
Understand it fully.
It is not complex.
It is actually simple in concept.
It is straightforward.
You have no excuse to not comprehend. This is not like arguing with a police officer about a speeding violation or for driving through a stop sign without stopping. You have no excuse to not understand this.

Fact:
There is only one reason... 1, a single, not more than one, and not two or more.

Question:
Why is the entire global system of finance, credit, capital structure, capital formation, and how is it that the stability of major financial institutions, the real estate market, and stock and commodity markets are in dire, weak condition, on the verge of collapse, or in or near nationalization regardless of size, global location, operational purpose, or range of services provided?
Answer:
American citizens and foreign nationals, illegal and legal, who signed contracts including home mortgage contracts, credit card contracts, auto loan contracts, and student loan contracts are not paying, not meeting their obligations, not doing all possible, nor expending sweat in order to meet their contractual obligations.
Investors across the world trusted US borrowers, invested in their debts, and are now going broke because US borrowers are not paying their debts.

Incorrect Answers include:
--  Ratings agencies, including Fitch, S&P, Moody's;
--  Buyers who failed to perform due diligence before buying derivative-style created investments.
--  Wall Street banks and investment bankers;
--  Lenders of sub-prime, Alt-A, and other loans that were made by disregarding borrowers' credit ratings.
These entities were complicit in that they performed the services that borrowers, lenders, and investors demanded.

Explanation:
Starting in 1977, the US Congress created and passed legislation requiring lenders to ease credit lending standards for minority and other individuals who were not able to meet normal creditworthiness standards. After that legislation, community groups, including ACORN, used extortion, thuggery, and law suits to force lenders to lend to risky, unworthy borrowers.
Risky and unworthy borrowed several hundreds-of-billions of dollars and have been defaulting, abandoning, and disregarding their contractual agreements -- that is, mortgages, loans contracts, and other credit obligations -- in increasingly large numbers since about 2006.
These defaulting borrowers' debts were packaged into derivatives that were sold around the world in large quantity -- especially to east Asian and European investors. Investors include financial institutions, municipal and national governments, and funds.
Because approximately 7% of all borrowers -- the risky and unworthy -- in America have and continue to choose to disregard their contractual obligations, the global financial system is teetering, governments are taking over privately-held financial institutions, and business sovereignty is being trampled.
As a result of today's meltdown, government is gaining powers, it is bloating with bureaucratic ineptitude, and politicians are usurping control over more aspects of your life.
Your taxes will be increasing and remain higher to pay other people for disregarding their debt obligations. The US national debt has increased over $2 trillion so far this year to bailout non-paying borrowers' obligations. The Federal Reserve's balance sheet is becoming distorted and extended.

If US-based borrowers were meeting their contractual obligations, there would not be a global financial meltdown -- nor any problem at all.

Or, as the risky, unworthy borrowers often say, "No problem".
 
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