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...defunct Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were peddling. "Yeah, I and everyone else placed Fannie and Freddie debt," he says, but "We didn't create this system and this was a mess that had to be cleaned up." He also acknowledges that he put the former Fannie Mae head, Jim Johnson, on the board of Goldman, and that Johnson chaired Paulson's compensation committee...
...last week and mortgage rates have remained calm. Yeah, I and everyone else placed Fannie and Freddie debt. We didn't create this system and this was a mess that had to be cleaned up. And that is something that I'm proud of, Ben Bernanke's proud of, Jim Lockhardt, the regulator - not proud that the situation happened, but proud that we were able to move quickly enough to use the powers given to us by Congress to stabilize the system...
...everyone will go along. A bloc on the far right of the Republican Party will say no because they are philosophically against it (and because they are from securely red districts or states); Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning, using his typically heightened rhetoric, went so far as to call the proposal "un-American." And a group on the left will oppose it because they see it as a bailout for Wall Street executives (and because they're from securely blue districts or states). But it seems clear that Paulson and Bernanke managed to hit the mark with their three pages...
...whether shorts hastened the demise of Lehman and AIG, cutting the off their oxygen when it was desperately needed. And some have laid the blame at the feet of SEC commissioner Cox. "Chris Cox is responsible for the largest destruction of wealth in U.S. history," hissed Mad Money maestro Jim Cramer on his CNBC show on Tuesday. "Because of Cox, the shorts won." (Republican nominee John McCain called Thursday for Cox to be fired - the same Cox some conservatives touted as a possible running mate earlier this year. President Bush said he fully supports his appointee...
...didn't have commercial banks ready to step in, you'd have a vastly bigger crisis today," says Jim Leach, a Republican former Congressman from Iowa (and current Barack Obama supporter) whose name is on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that repealed Glass-Steagall. Leach is no neutral observer, and there can be no proving that Glass-Steagall repeal has made the world safer. But amid the predictable debate now underway about how much new financial regulation is needed, it just doesn't make a very convincing scapegoat for the crisis...