[lbo-talk] move your money campaign

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Tue Dec 20 10:44:48 PST 2011



>> a flood of new deposits/members would harm [credit unions]

Doug thinks so, but I'm not so sure. First of all, we're not talking about a huge amount of money. There is some limit where a credit union would lose its effectiveness; but there *are* "large" credit unions, and they don't seem to be part of the problem.


> They'll put the influx into Ginnie and Fannie.

And that's bad exactly how?

Joe Nocera has a good op-ed today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/opinion/nocera-an-inconvenient-truth.html

An Inconvenient Truth By JOE NOCERA

[...]

Fannie and Freddie could have led a housing recovery - if they hadn't become crippled wards of the state instead.

Yet these real sins have been largely overlooked in favor of imagined ones.

[...]

Over at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, two resident scholars, Peter Wallison and Edward Pinto, have concocted what has since become a Republican meme: namely, that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were ground zero for the entire crisis, leading the private sector off the cliff with their affordable housing mandates and massive subprime holdings.

[...]

The truth is the opposite ...

[...]



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