Rabid Liberal Rants » Credit Crisis

Roubini: “the worst is ahead of us”

rabidliberal — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:30:47 +0000

Economy guru and professor at NYU, Nouriel Roubini gave a presentation in London, and basically said the worst is yet to come. Roubini, back in 2006, accurately predicted that the US will fall into a recession. Back in February, he predicted the financial market meltdown. Some quotes from the conference:

We’ve reached a situation of sheer panic

hundreds of hedge funds are going to go bust

We’re seeing the beginning of a run on a big chunk of the hedge funds

don’t be surprised if policy makers need to close down markets for a week or two in coming days

This is the worst financial crisis in the U.S., Europe and now emerging markets that we’ve seen in a long time

Things will get much worse before they get better. I fear the worst is ahead of us.

Washington Mutual No More!

rabidliberal — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:10:51 +0000

Wow! A 119 year old bank, WaMu has been seized by the government and sold off to JPMorgan. A major consolidation is happening in our financial markets/banking system.

And they just built a WaMu location a block away from me, set to open next month.

Wiki On Subprime Mortgage Crisis

rabidliberal — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:34:22 +0000

A nice, continuosly updated, writeup on Wikipedia on the current Financial Meltdown and Credit Crisis can be found here.

Paulison’s Unconstitutional Bailout Proposal

rabidliberal — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:31:02 +0000

From The Nation:

Under Paulson’s draft plan, Congress and the courts would have been barred from reviewing or challenging his moves to stabilize financial markets — effectively making him the nation’s economic czar. That’s not just a dangerous power grab for economic and politic reasons. It’s unconstitutional.

So basically, this man is looking for $700 Billion in taxpayer money, to do whatever he thinks is right, without anyone having the ability to review or question his plan and whatever else he does with the money. ARE YOU FREAKIN” NUTS?!? This is just as bad as giving the President the blank check for the Iraq War! They’re looking for another blank check. I hope and pray this proposal does not go through and sensible minds prevail in Congress. Don’t get pushed and bullied into approving this plan.

And yet the folks that caused this mess, the CEOs and managers and those that made the loans, all go away scott free with their golden parachutes. Anybody who knowingly made loans to people who they knew wouldn’t be able to afford them, should be going to jail. Period.

Why were all these people able to do what the did? The answer is Deregulation. If you have some time, here’s a good writeup on the history of this mess.