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Under outdated regulatory framework is there any more detail on what is out dated and what is needed? JJ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.160.191 ( talk) 22:18, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
In the following paragraph fragment the statement about them causeing instability in the global financial system is not clear, at least to me. If there is an explanation as to what was the mechanism that caused the "instability" and what theat instability was or what was its consequence.
Also the statement regarding investment vs commercial bank could either use explanation of the difference or a link to other articles on these two different types of banks or links to the relevant regulations or an explanation of the differences.
"Three of the five either went bankrupt (Lehman Brothers) or were sold at fire-sale prices to other banks (Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch) during September 2008, creating instability in the global financial system. The remaining two converted to commercial bank models, subjecting themselves to much tighter regulation.[12]" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.160.191 ( talk) 22:26, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
The following info mostly is missing from this article. See refs and more info here.
Carol Moore 17:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC) Carolmooredc
There is a growing consensus that the general level of debt of Americans is a major stumbling block in the economy, including the debt load of non-subprime borrowers. The government has played a significant role in promoting mortgage debt (under the banner of promoting "home ownership"), probably mostly high quality (in the case of conforming agency debt). And commentators have questioned the validity of the homeownership results (e.g., showing little result relative to Canada [1]). At some point it may be appropriate to broadenn out this article. Deet ( talk) 04:51, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
The lead on this article is wrong. The subprime crisis was created by the failed regulation of Wall Street and private monies entering the market in the early 2000's, not so much home ownership goals. Primary focus should be failed regulation of rating agencies and Wall Street. They rated 3.2 trillion of the subprimes as AAA and sold them to the world. These were the most toxic of all the subprime. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac deserve mention - they bought 300 plus billion in Alt-A's they had stopped holding in the nineties adn of course, they bought some of these AAA rated securities. I'll work on this lead sometime within this week unless someone beats me to the task. Scribner ( talk) 00:16, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
The problems are legion. The POV is anything but neutral. Articles plainly labelled opinion that come to unsupported and uncheckable conclusions are cited as fact. No attempt whatsoever is made to answer questions as simple as how many subprime loans the GSEs actually own and what their default rates are, although this is easily available. This has far less the appearance of a subordinated article and far more the appearance of a sandbox, in my view. -- Dlawbailey ( talk) 07:19, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
I removed this section. The entire section was nothing more than a series of quotes from two individuals. This particular mention of outdated regulatory framework is simply a POV, original research attempt to reinforce Bush's statement.
From an Obama speach:
"Unfortunately, instead of establishing a 21st century regulatory framework, we simply dismantled the old one – aided by a legal but corrupt bargain in which campaign money all too often shaped policy and watered down oversight. In doing so, we encouraged a winner take all, anything goes environment that helped foster devastating dislocations in our economy." Scribner ( talk) 21:18, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to defend the edits that I made, which were reverted by Scribner
First of all, regarding my deletion of Krugman's comments about private gains/socialized losses – this ought to be in a different paragraph, as it does not relate to Krugman's much more significant statement that Fannie and Freddie did not engage in subprime lending. The only link between the two statements are the fact that a) they were both written by Krugman, and b) they both appeared in the same column. Beyond that, there is no relevance in the current paragraph.
Regarding the other modifications:
1. The original content misrepresented Krugman's statement. He didn't imply that the GSEs "generally" stayed out of the subprime game – he said they absolutely played no part in it (and I quote: "Fannie and Freddie had nothing to do with the explosion of high-risk lending a few years ago"; also: "they didn’t do any subprime lending, because they can’t.")
2. It is totally inappropriate to delete criticism of Krugman's statement, especially considering the criticism cites very reliable sources such as the Washington Post and even HUD itself. I realize it makes Krugman look like a moron, but that's kind of the point - what he said was ridiculous, and I would have deleted it entirely if not for the fact that it was stated by a Nobel Prize winning economist, and that it's an argument that you hear a lot. Feel free to add any sources that you believe further justify what Krugman said, but please don't delete the criticism again.
Before you revert back to the original version, I'd like you to address these points. I find it kind of disturbing and intellectually dishonest that you deleted them without comment, considering that I took the time to note exactly why I felt the changes ought to have been made. Ssmith619 ( talk) 21:56, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
The article represents strictly and strongly only one point of view - those who feel regulation was insufficiently tight. For example, everyone quoted about the CRA says it did not contribute - does this mean noone at all has said it did contribute? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.143.136.244 ( talk) 11:47, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Repeal of Glass Steagall Act Yes, I agree this article is not balanced. For this reason I recently made changes to the "Role of SEC" section and to the "Repeal of Glass Steagall ACt" section. I think changes make article more accurate and balanced. If someone sees it differently please let me know why. Thanks. Nicholas007 ( talk) 20:40, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Shouldn't this be "US Government policies and the US subprime mortgage crisis"? Philip Trueman ( talk) 03:58, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
I removed the sentence "This led to politically protected 'too big to fail' banks" because Zingales blames this on a number of factors besides Glass Steagall. Bulk of bank consolidations, for example, took place before its repeal. Professor marginalia ( talk) 20:28, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Role of SEC I am not sure if I am supposed to add talk at top or bottom of page, so I am using bottom. I made changes to the section titled, "Role of the SEC" because the text seemed one-sided and out-of-date. I have read at least 3 sources that address this subject (including the Eric Sirri source, cited). The 5 investment banks in the CSE program were using a percentage-of-receivables standards - not leverage ratio limits. For this reason and others, the 2004 SEC changes had no immediate impact. That said, the SEC, like other regulatory bodies, probably dropped the ball with regard to safeguarding the financial system. However, before the edits I made, I believe the case was overstated and mistated. Nicholas007 ( talk) 20:23, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the feedback. Sirri (via Fried's book) addresses the matter of risk-based weighting in detail. You are correct that the use of the more complex risk-based weighting enabled banks to increase leverage ratios. However, this fact was irrelevant for the 5 banks in the SEC's Consolidated Supervised Entity program because each one had opted to use a percentage-of-customer receivables standard - an option each one had and used for decades. That is where the confusion came from, and that is what Sirri and Fried were addressing. I think it is important to indicate that the percentage-of-receivables standard existed and was in use by all 5 banks. This fact doesn't mean that the regulation was adequate - it only means that it was wrong for critcs to leap to the conclusion that SEC changes made in 2004 enabled the leverage changes. They did not. If there was a regulatory deficiency (and there probably was) it existed all along. Indeed, Fried points out that bank leverage ratios had been higher in 1998 than in 2006, a fact overlooked by critics. I will try to make revisions to the text that make these points clearer. Nicholas007 ( talk) 14:34, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Since this section pertains to government policies related to the subprime mortgage crisis I plan to add some additional sections that have been, perhaps, overlooked. Specifically, I plan to add something about the 1992 legislation establishing affordable housing mandates for Fannie and Freddie, the 1995 100-page "Strategy" document of HUD (it promoted looser underwriting standards), policies of the Clinton Administration (to compliment the section on policies of the Bush Administration) and the role of state and local governments. I will try my best to tie any of my changes to solid sources. Nicholas007 ( talk) 16:09, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
To address more government policies it would be helpful to modify the outline of this topic. I propose the following rough outline:
Legislative and Regulatory policies
Role of HUD
Role of F&F
Criticism of F&F
F&F were pushed by HUD, but may have been independently motivated by ideology and profit seeking. Critics claim they had a major, or the major role in creating a crisis. Specific criticisms relate to Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s…
Defense of Fannie & Freddie (insert existing verbiage)
Federal takeover of F&F (insert existing verbiage)
Role of the Federal Reserve in the crisis (link to Wiki’s “Criticism of the Federal Reserve,” which examines the role of low-interest rate policy in causing the crisis)
The role of the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLB) in the crisis (insert existing verbiage)
Federal regulatory influence of states (use existing, and expand?)
Other conservative criticisms of government policies (existing verbiage)
Policies of the Clinton Administration
Policies of the Bush Administration (use existing verbiage)
State and local government programs
Nicholas007 ( talk) 18:10, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
I just made a large edit, incorporating the basic structure shown above. I tried not to change any existing section - just add more in a different structure. During the next couple days I will recheck citations and typos and try to make sure things are correct. Feedback is welcomed, as I want this to reflect all information that people believe is relevant. Nicholas007 ( talk) 15:40, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Several sections talk about an "alleged" connection of various government departments and GSEs. It's clear from the text that there is a connection although the magnitude is sometimes debated. I have changed the titles from the form "Alleged role of X in the subprime crisis" to a more neutral form: "X and the subprime crisis." Jason from nyc ( talk) 13:09, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Farcaster, what do you think of grouping material on CRA, HUD, Fannie and Freddie under an affordable housing section? -- BoogaLouie ( talk) 20:04, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
I also think the "Legislative and Regulatory Overview" should be split out in some way, but don't have an answer there yet. The laundry list doesn't work well and breaks up the flow of the article. Perhaps much of that could be put into sections as well. Whaddya think? Farcaster ( talk) 20:24, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
I've created a subpage for rewriting the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac section of the article since both Farcaster and myself are working on the article.
/info/en/?search=User:BoogaLouie/sandbox/Government_policies_and_the_subprime_mortgage_crisis
I've attempted to organize the section better grouping simalr complaints together, deleting some material not verified in the citation given. -- BoogaLouie ( talk) 21:49, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
To me, this section seemed confusing and somewhat biased. Under the section "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" were two sections that pertained to the FCIC. One was titled, "Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission" and the other was titled, "Wallison's Dissent." That seemed clear but the next section, titled, "Debate about the FCIC conclusions on Fannie and Freddie" did not seem appropriate. It really was not about the findings of the FCIC; rather, it was mostly about journalists (e.g., Nocera and Mclean) and economists and lawyers who happened to share the viewpoint of the FCIC. It was entirely a defense of the GSEs, and it was then followed by a large section called "Criticism of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac." Doesn't it make more sense to put the criticisms first and then have the defense? For this reason I moved the criticisms section to the front.
I also made a few substantive changes. Personally, I think there is far to much quoting of the opinion of journalists, such as Nocera. However, I did not take any of that out. However, how on earth do we downplay the December 2011 SEC charges which: 1) indicate that Fannie and Freddie probably have 10 times more substandard loans than reported and 2) make most of the subprime loan estimates in this article obsolete (because most reporters and even government agencies simply used GSE amounts straight from their (crooked) financial statements? This is no small matter. I realize that GSE defenders don't want to deal with it, but facts are facts and the SEC case is ongoing. Perhaps it will ultimately be dismissed, but until then it is very important, and it has the potential to seriously affect the assessment of the GSEs. Nicholas007 ( talk) 01:19, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Farcaster, it would be interesting to add Switzerland and Germany housing price indexes to the graphs that you recently added for the same period. I say this because UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland) was one of the banks that lost the most from subprime, similar to Citibank (see List of writedowns due to subprime crisis). It would be interesting to see the effect of EU banks on those two banking powerhouse nations. Jason from nyc ( talk) 11:42, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
That graph is from the FCIC. A quick search on FRED indicates neither of the two countries had housing bubbles in the 2000's. Farcaster ( talk) 13:34, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
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I wrote the following on MrOllie's talk page following his deletion of citations to a particular academic author. Mr. Ollie did not respond on substance but rather responded with ad hominem attacks. Please discuss so that we can reach consensus.
Dear MrOllie,
You recently reverted edits to articles about mortgage securitization, the GSEs, and the subprime mortgage crisis. I believe these revisions reduced the substantive quality of the wikipedia articles and the edits should be restored. My explanation is below. I look forward to working with you amicably to reach consensus. I believe that our goal should be to improve the article and cite to high quality, relevant sources whenever possible.
The edits you reverted included substantive improvements to the articles and cited an award-winning (see also here), widely-cited, widely-read academic journal article by a tenured professor at a leading research university with relevant expertise.
According to Wikipedia's policy on reliable sources:
″Many Wikipedia articles rely on scholarly material. When available, academic and peer-reviewed publications, scholarly monographs, and textbooks are usually the most reliable sources. . . . Material such as an article, book, monograph, or research paper that has been vetted by the scholarly community is regarded as reliable, where the material has been published in reputable peer-reviewed sources or by well-regarded academic presses. . . . One can confirm that discussion of the source has entered mainstream academic discourse by checking the scholarly citations it has received in citation indexes.″
Thus, the source cited is among the most reliable sources under Wikipedia's definition of reliable sources. You reverted it while suggesting that it might be reference-spamming, but given the relevance of the academic article to the wikipedia article, and the high quality of the academic article--demonstrated by its placement, its citations, its readership, its awards and the institutional affiliation and status of its author--it is not a form of spam but rather a legitimate effort to improve the article.
Please note that news articles in journals with an ideological valence, think tank reports and other materials are considered less reliable sources than academic research. See Biased or Opinionated Sources Many of the other sources in the article are editorials and think tank reports, not academic articles, and the inclusion of more high quality and up-to-date academic articles would therefore improve the article.
Many of the think tank reports cited in the article are written by organizations that receive financial sponsorship from private lenders and therefore have an interest in portraying the financial crisis as having been caused by government policies rather than by private financial institutions. One of the few academic reports cited is years out of date, claims to provide a "comprehensive" bibliography of articles, but was published in 2012. Much has been written in the ensuing 7 years--the article is no longer a comprehensive review, if it ever was. And indeed, the author claiming otherwise has a think-tank affiliation.
In addition, self-published material is generally considered an unreliable source, except when published by well-published academic experts. Per Wikipedia policy, self-published material:
″are largely not acceptable as sources. Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications.″"
You cited to self-published blog by a self-employed blogger / part time document reviewer which contains an off-wikipedia criticism of a scholar with whom he disagrees about the benefits of legal education.
It may be helpful to understand the context of this post. The blogger apparently posted this criticism as a form of revenge for having been made to appear foolish for making substantive mistakes about legal education and student loans [1] [2] --subjects about which the blogger purports to be an expert--even in a publication to which he has contributed. [3]
Citing to the post you cited violates wikipedia policies including Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks and [ [2]]. Indeed, the author of the post you cited acknowledged "that this post might be construed as an “off-wiki attack” ... that Wikipedians may perceive as harmful to their community."
Edits are supposed to be evaluated on substance based on established wikipedia policies about reliable sources, not based on snap decisions based on [ [3]]
I recognize that my edits only added one source and that it would be better to include multiple sources. If you would like to add additional high quality academic sources rather than deleting the few high quality citations that are in the wikipedia article, I would encourage you to do so. I have reviewed Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest policies and I am in compliance.
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