I'm not sure where you stand on deregulation, but I've personally had enough of it. The problem was the goverment deregulated to the point that we got the sub-prime mortgage lending and adjustable rate mortgages.
I'm ready for government to regulate for a change and clean some of this mess up. That's not popular with conservatives but their deregulation has failed miserably.
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Originally Posted by OP_Carl
I may be a conservative but I'm not an anarchist! Free markets require regulation, anti-trust, and monopoly laws.
The de-regulation of the banks and commodities firms by the Bush Administration are directly responsible for this mess. Putting Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman-Sachs (one of the two remaining large investment banks, what a coincidence! ) in as Treasury Secretary was like handing an axe to the fox guarding the chickens.
This might be fun. Can either of you tell me exactly what deregulations GWB and crew did that led to this failure in the banking industry?
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