Class Warfare American Style
Jesse (aka Arthur Cutten) on learning of the recent GSE bailouts from Matt Taibbi on the criminal nature of the US financial services community. Hilarious rant, close to the truth or has Arthur spent too much time in a less class divided Europe?
Extract:
For me the basic dynamic of the mortgage bubble is some Ivy League dickwad hawking a billion dollars of securitized subprime mortgages to a pension fund, and then Hobie-sailing off into the sunset with a bonus after they all blow up. Of course my seeing it that way might have a lot to do with my own personal psychological prejudices, and I get that some other person with different hangups might choose to focus on Barney Frank deciding to “roll the dice on home ownership” with the GSEs…
This GSE story is a big one, but if it gets used as a path back to a “The Market Reacted Rationally” version of history, we’re screwed. It has to be looked at as an important part of a diabolical whole, a symbiotic scheme in which the banks and the state were irreversibly intertwined in an enterprise that on both sides was never about market economics, but crime. Because otherwise… the diversionary notion that one side or the other is wholly to blame is part of what makes the whole scam possible…“
Or perhaps the dysfunctional government article referred to in my previous post is a deliberate smokescreen?
https://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2010/01/class-warfare.html
https://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2010/01/04/fannie-freddie-and-the-new-red-and-blue/#
https://www.zerohedge.com/article/origins-american-kleptocracy
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