2016 Postmortem
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Hillary Clinton 2008
There is a broad consensus that Congress must act to stave off deeper turmoil on Wall Street. Irrespective of the final agreement yet to be reached, there are several principles that must be part of a broader reform effort that begins this week and continues in the coming months.
This is not just a financial crisis; it's an economic crisis. Therefore, the solutions we pursue cannot simply stabilize the markets. We must also deal with the interconnected economic challenges that set the stage for this crisis -- and reverse the failed policies that allowed a potential crisis to become a real one.
First, we must address the skyrocketing rates of mortgage defaults and foreclosures that have buffeted the economy and ignited the credit crisis. Two million homeowners carry mortgages worth more than their homes. They hold $3 trillion in mortgage debt. Nearly three million adjustable-rate mortgages are scheduled for a rate increase in the next two years. Another wave of foreclosures looms.
I've proposed a new Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), to launch a national effort to help homeowners refinance their mortgages. The original HOLC, launched in 1933, bought mortgages from failed banks and modified the terms so families could make affordable payments while keeping their homes. The original HOLC returned a profit to the Treasury and saved one million homes. We can save roughly three times that many today. We should also put in place a temporary moratorium on foreclosures and freeze rate hikes in adjustable-rate mortgages. We've got to stem the tide of failing mortgages and give the markets time to recover.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122230767702474045
FDR:
FDR's resulting legislation established the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. The HOLC was authorized to issue new loans to replace the existing liens of homeowners in default. Instead of a short-term, interest-only loan, the HOLC loans would be fully amortizing over 15 years, meaning that when the last payment was made, the borrower owed nothing further to the bank and owned the home free of any debt. HOLC was far more patient with borrowers than the banks could have been, and delinquent loans got individualized attention, including debt counseling, family meetings, and budgeting help.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fdr-solves-the-mortgage-crisis/
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)JOBS
not being shipped overseas. Or stolen here at home by foreigners on H1 Visas.
She's championed H1 Visas. She helped draft the TPP. And that is going to cement the loss of the remaining manufacturing jobs in this country. You know, the ones that we still have after Clinton1's destruction of American manufacturing with NAFTA & inducting China into the WTO.
She may say now she is against the TPP, but you can bet she will pass it if its still on the table in 2017. She will evolve AGAIN on the horrific "trade" pact.
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)BIG +1!
stonecutter357
(12,695 posts)Buzz cook
(2,471 posts)It really hit home that we had nominated the wrong person.
This was around the same time Obama was saying he would work with the banks and the Bush administration because he didn't want to be like FDR. Then he pulled out the right wing yarn that FDR had deliberately not worked with Hoover, Wall Street, and the banks in order that the depression would get worse and he (FDR) would be that much more popular when he took office.
In other words all Clinton had to do to be left of Obama was to support a 70 year old program.