1-12E “Inside Job 2010” - 2008 Financial CrisisVersión en línea
GE.6.3 Demonstrate how banks create money through the principle of fractional reserve banking.
GE.6.4 Describe the structure and functions of the Federal Reserve System. (E)
GE.7.1 Define and explain fiscal policy and its tools. (E)
GE.7.2 Define and explain monetary policy and its tools. (E)
GE.7.3 Analyze how the government uses fiscal policy to promote price stability, full employment,
and economic growth.
GE.7.4 Explain how the use of fiscal policy affects budget deficits or surpluses and the national
debt.
GE.7.5 Analyze how the Federal Reserve uses monetary policy to promote price stability, full
employment, and economic growth. (E)
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Banks prefer to be huge, because then they impact the savings of most citizens. Because when banks impact the savings of most citizens, the government will be forced to ____ the bank out when the bank is in trouble, or the entire economy will stop.
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The Great Depression created 25% unemployment, so the government started regulating the economy. Regular banks no longer could invest money in the stock market. From the 30s to 80s, the US did not have a ____ ____ .
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Incentive: Loan officers (brokers) made more money on commission (from investment banks) by putting borrowers into adjustable-rate subprime loans, even though borrowers would have been better off with fixed rate loans. These are called _____ loans
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Appointed by president Clinton, Brooksley Born tried to regulate derivatives, but the finance industry lobbied congress & congress passed the ____ ____ modernization act, which outlawed the regulation of derivatives.
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Great Depression created 25% unemployment, so the government started regulating the economy, & the U.S. didn't have financial crises. Then stagflation hit in the 70s, & Pres Reagan wanted to fix the economy in the 80s, so he started financial ____
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While the privatized banks of Iceland were borrowing more money than existed in their country (& creating inflation), accounting companies in the U.S. audited them & gave them the ____ ____ rating. U.S. banks ignored the excessive borrowing.
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Old system: local lenders gave mortgage to homeowner, who paid them back. 2008 system: lenders sold mortgage to investment banks, who bundled them into ____ debt ____ , & sold them to investors. Mortgage payments go to investors around the world
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Great Depression created 25% unemployment, government started regulating economy, U.S. has no financial crises. Then stagflation hit the 70s, & Reagan starts financial deregulation in 80s, allowing savings & loan companies to make ____ ____ .
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Deregulation in the economy & environment usually has negative outcomes. The U.S. discovered this in 2008, and so did the country of ____ . They both took the government out of finance sector & privatized the banking system.
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The result of deregulation, derivatives made U.S. markets unstable, even though bankers believed they made markets safer. Bankers used derivatives to ____ on anything: will Walmart go bankrupt, will it snow, will bread prices drop, etc.
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Investment banks combined mortgages into CDOs, then hired ____ ____ to give the CDOs a AAA rating, even though some mortgages were subprime. Thus, CDOs were popular with retirement funds, which could only be used to buy AAA securities.
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New 2008 system: lenders sold ____ to investment banks, who bundled them into CDOs & sold CDOS to investors. Old pre-2008 system: local ____ gave mortgage to homeowner, who paid money to bank every month; it took years, so banks were careful.
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Iceland privatized 3 banks (government handed control to individuals), banks borrowed billions & had fun with friends. Inflation increased prices, people stopped spending, businesses fired workers, this caused _____ to rise 3 times larger.
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____ made U.S. markets unstable, even though bankers & economists believed they made them safer. They were the result of new technology & government deregulation.
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Economy is like an oil tanker. After great depression, gov' regulation separated investment banks & consumer banks, or compartments in the tanker. This stopped oil from ____ the ____ . Deregulation ended compartmentalization; the economy sank.
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From 2000 to 2008, most of the loans were ____ , or very risky. They were clustered into CDOs & given a AAA rating, even though they were [same].
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Before the 80s, stock traders made so little money that they couldn't support a family, but once ____ banks went public in the 80s (sold stock in their bank to private citizens), stock trader salaries were in the millions.
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Founded after the great depression, the ___ & ___ commission was not deregulated, but it did nothing when investment banks loaned money for a bubble in internet stocks, which then crashed in 2001 & cost 5 trillion dollars in investment losses.
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Iceland privatized three banks, which then spent lots of money having fun with their friends. They borrowed more money than all of Iceland's _____ , actually ten times more money. This created inflation in the housing market & stock market.
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The financial sector destroyed the economy in Iceland. This happened after the biggest banks were ____ by the government, which means the government handed control of the banking system over to private individuals, who made selfish decisions.
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