• Second, low global interest rates fueled a global housing boom. In parts of
the United States (particularly the Northeast, Florida, and
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rising house prices were exacerbated by local land-use regulations that
limited the amount of land that could be used for new housing construction,
thus pushing up prices further.
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creditworthy borrowers the chance to buy homes for the first time.While
this was largely a beneficial trend, it also
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lending practices that allowed hundreds of thousands of unqualified borrowers
to take on mortgages that, in the end, they could not afford. The
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“securitization.”This refers to the practice of packaging mortgages—both
high and
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the essay on page 326, “Financial ‘Re-Regulation’—Don’t Throw Out the
Baby with the Bathwater”). The good news was that the risk associated with
subprime mortgages was spread among a lot of different types of investment
institutions, unlike the situation in the S&L and
td bank employment as well Japanese crises,
where the problem loans were concentrated in the banking system. The
bad news was that no one knew where the “toxic waste” had ended up.
If banks were permitted to accommodate the community in which they do business it would make a home outlet far their deposits, and
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stafford savings bank as well reduce the power of the Money Trust. An act to accomplish that should postpone the taking effect until there could be a natural adjustment.
Mr. FOSTER. You treat that there as if
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Mr. LINDBERGH. To speculators.
Mr. FOSTER. That most banks are speculative centers. As was said by Mr. Lenroot, these commercial houses handle paper—that is, their brokers—and send out
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Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes, Sir.
Mr. FOSTER. You do not treat them as
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Mr. LINDBERGH. Sometimes they are ; not as
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Mr. DENVER. Is that for the purpose of stock speculation ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Oh, no ; it is not.
Mr. FOSTER. They are not speculators ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. No ; they are not speculators in the sense of bonding stocks.
Mr. LENROOT. Do you think, Mr. Lindbergh, there is any substantial percentage of loans made by banks on speculators’ paper ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes ; there is.
Mr. LENROOT. I mean made direct by the banks ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Not a large per cent of their deposits are made direct to speculators, except in the large cities.
Mr. LENROOT. But a large percentage of what are known as
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Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes ; there is a considerable per cent of that.
Mr. LENROOT. It would not be considered very safe banking, would it, in any community where a bank did that ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Perhaps I should give an explanation there. I consider a person who is buying a large quantity of timber out
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Mr. LENROOT. Through its raising value ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. Yes. He is a speculator.
Mr. WILSON. Then you would consider a man trying to corner the wheat market a speculator ?
Mr. LINDBERGH. I certainly would.
Mr. LENROOT. Most anybody would.
Mr. WILSON. Is it not true there in Chicago that the board of trade men borrow great sums of money from
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Mr. LENROOT. I think they put up collateral for everything they get.
Mr. LINDBERGH. Most of those people put up collateral.
Mr. WILSON. Not all of them. I think the character of the man has a great deal to do with that. I think many of the men there can borrow great sums of money.
Mr. LINDBERGH. The creation of the National Monetary Commission was a very clever move.
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