Is the FRB Responsible For The Mortgage Meltdown?

There has never been more confusion about mortgages than at this particular time in history. The global economic system has been collapsed by people who were confused about mortgages and didn’t know it. Whose fault was it? It was the fault of the sub-prime home buyer. It was the fault of the sub-prime mortgage broker. It was the fault of lazy financial advisors who put their client’s money in asset backed paper that turned out to be worth whatever recycled paper goes for and no more. But mostly it was the fault of the private, for-profit company that manages our money supply - the Federal Reserve Bank.

It was the Federal Reserve Bank, and only the Federal Reserve, that was responsible for increasing the ratio between how much money a bank had on deposit and how much it could lend to 30-1. When Jon Stewart repeatedly asked Jim Cramer, “Who thought a 30-1 leverage was a good idea?” he was referring to the Federal Reserve upping the deposit-to-loan ratio to 30-1 for American banks. The answer to who did it, Jon, is: The Federal Reserve Bank. And they should pay. Congress must rescind the Bank’s charter and replace it with a central bank controlled by the Treasury Department.

Mortgage contracts were made with such low standards that mortgage brokers tried selling a subprime mortgage to every living, breathing person they spotted.. Millions who trusted their financial advisors had no idea there money was getting tied up in mortgages to unqualified people.

When the FRB raised the ratio it flooded the market with more money, which went out in loans to unqualified buyers which were then bundled as the infamous ‘asset backed paper.’. Question: What is another word for a toxic asset? Answer: A liability. The American government is using taxpayer money to buy liabilities.

Finally, the people who sit and tell CNN cameras that they didn’t know that they had an adjustable rate mortgage are simply too stupid to own a home. I cannot conceive of people so clueless that they make the largest financial commitment of their lifetimes without reading the document they are signing - or at least paying a lawyer or advisor to do so. Pity them, yes. Bail them out? Not a chance.