Ted Cruz And The Wall Street Connection by Roger Stone

[Rad]

Neil defrauded U.S. taxpayers out of $1.5 billion dollars in a savings and loan scam. Now however, Cruz has announced a key appointment that should disturb voters even more.

Cruz named Former Texas Senator Phil Gramm as his economic guru. This guy virtually crashed the U.S. economy. Gramm is largely responsible for two bills which led to the speculative bubble which popped in September 2008. First was his Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill that repealed Glass Steagall, which separated investment banking from commercial banking. Its repeal — which was signed into law by President Clinton, with the backing of Robert Rubin and Larry Summers — opened the door for a flood of money, from commercial banks, to flow into mortgage-backed securities and other funny-money schemes, which blew up in 2008.

The second bill was the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA), which totally freed derivative trading from any regulatory oversight. This was another Phil Gramm bill, and was central to the bubble creation from 2000 to 2008, and then again today.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/01/ted-cruz-and-the-wall-street-connection/

 

[Krugminator2]

Repealing Glass-Steagall had little to nothing to do with the mortgage crisis. It only affected a small number of banks like Citigroup. It did not change the way Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Bear Stearns etc did business as they are investment banks, not commercial banks. It also didn't affect mortgage companies that went bust like Countrywide or Washington Mutual. They didn't go bust trading derivatives. They went bust making bad loans.

Glad to see Roger Stone is using Elizabeth Warren talking points. That is consistent with the worldview of the candidate he supports.

 

[Wilf]

Repealing Glass-Steagall had little to nothing to do with the mortgage crisis. It only affected a small number of banks like Citigroup. It did not change the way Goldman Sachs, Lehman, Bear Stearns etc did business as they are investment banks, not commercial banks. It also didn't affect mortgage companies that went bust like Countrywide or Washington Mutual. They didn't go bust trading derivatives. They went bust making bad loans.

Glad to see Roger Stone is using Elizabeth Warren talking points. That is consistent with the worldview of the candidate he supports.

Its Roger Stone, what did you expect?