DrBoost wrote:
Stealthtercel wrote:
I know Canadian bank rules are different, but wouldn't a bank that refused to accept payment in full because it wanted to be a property speculator AND a bank have some 'splainin' to do to the state bank regulator?
Here in the U.S. banks haven't had to 'splain anything in decades. That's why we are where we are, in a financial sinkhole and the only ones on the outside lookin in are the gubment and the banks, one in the same.
Well, you're partially right but government didn't have a direct financial stake in the banks until after the crash.
The government played a HUGE role by guaranteeing loans to way too many people who could never afford them - all in the name of "ownership for everybody". When Bush43 attempted to reign-in Freddie/Fannie in 2006, he was thwarted by Frank and Dodd who claimed there was no need and no impending crisis.
Combine that with de-regulation and government's failure to enfore the rules still in place, and the Feds have at least as much, if not more, 'splaining to do.