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September 20th, 2008

I’m really enjoying ScrewTurn Wiki: http://www.screwturn.eu/

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@siracusa (cont) So let them alone and succeed or fail based on their own actions without the protection of the government. The end.

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@siracusa (cont) regulators cannot foresee all of the consequences of their designs and inevitably some perverse incentives will arise.

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@siracusa (cont) not risky to do the bundling when someone else (taxpayers) assume all of the risk. The problem is regulation per se since

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@siracusa (cont) have done that because it’s *their* money at risk. Financial institutions are about being conservative with money and it is

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@siracusa Do you not get that the government created an incentive and protection from unsound practices? If it had been free, they wouldn’t

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@siracusa The bigger problem was the guarantee offered to lenders. Between that and CRA, the gamble was palatable. OPM is a big incentive.

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@siracusa So you’re saying that the CRA had no impact on this at all? Hard to swallow: http://bit.ly/CRA_bad

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