Affordable Housing Institute : US

Because the US economy is the world’s largest, and the US’s financial system the world’s most complex, the big first move in resolving the global credit gridlock had to come from the US – and, as I posted in banking on value, the US took that step, as I explained at length, over the long […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 2 and Part 1.]  
I know what Scott’s attitude on the restructuring is, what’s yours? I agree with Scott, sir.  I think we’re being played for suckers.  But I think it’s really your business. Yours and the Treasury’s.  You did it, and they agreed so, well, I don’t see how we can […]

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]  
I think the invention of global securitization is at best an act of naivete, and at worst an unsupportable negligence. We’ve stayed financially solvent because we’ve built up an equity, and we’ve kept the liquidity and credit markets because we’ve dealt with counterparties who knew we would take that equity.  […]

All right, Colonel. Let’s sum it up, shall we? You’re suggesting what? I’m not sure, Mr. President: just some possibilities, what we call, uh “capabilities” in military intelligence… You got something against the English language, Colonel? I’m suggesting, Mr. President, there’s a military plot to take over the government. This may occur some time this […]

[Continued from the previous Part 1 and Part 2.]
 

For the previous two days, we’ve been delving into whether, as implied by a Wall Street Journal article on the rating agencies, Moody’s got so cozy with the issuers it was rating, and who were paying its fees, that it succumbed to grade inflation.
 
 [For background on the […]