09-26-2008, 10:26 PM
Okay, here's some of the video, transcribed, with my own comments.
The vid: "The Democrats added massive new provisions..."
Wikipedia (?): "Part of the increase in home loans was due to...lenders, like Countrywide, that do not mitigate loan risk...using the new subprime authorization."
(Greg: Why ellipses? And what's the context for this?)
The vid: "That forced banks to issue..."
(Greg: Forced? How forced?)
The vid: "$1 Trillion in New "Subprime" loans"
PolicyLink - begin here...
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was established by Congress in 1977. The Act requires that deposit-taking financial institutions offer equal access to lending, investment and services to all those in an institution's geographic assessment area-at least three to five miles from each branch. In the case of large banks with many branches, the geographic area may encompass an entire county or even a state.
Before the CRA, many bankers excluded low-income neighborhoods and people of color from their lending products, investments, and financial services - a practice known as "redlining". Community activists coined the term when they discovered that the failure of banks to make loans in some low-income neighborhoods was so geographically distinct, that it was easy to draw red lines on maps to delineate the practices.
In the 1970s, activists in Chicago and across the country brought strong pressure on banks to lend equitably to all those in their communities. Since its passage, the CRA has been used across the United States to win tens of billions of dollars in new lending, investments, and services for communities. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition tracks more than $1 trillion dollars in community reinvestment pledges nationally. These pledges are explicit investments in equitable development goals, and finance many tools in this toolkit.
PolicyLink - end here.
The vid: ...and created subprime mortgage securities.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_th...ollar.html:
Greg, here.
I might have just started at the city-journal article, which I'll bookmark and read later. As with the PowerPoints I rail about on the other side, I can't follow this video. That's probably my own shortcoming.
The vid: "The Democrats added massive new provisions..."
Wikipedia (?): "Part of the increase in home loans was due to...lenders, like Countrywide, that do not mitigate loan risk...using the new subprime authorization."
(Greg: Why ellipses? And what's the context for this?)
The vid: "That forced banks to issue..."
(Greg: Forced? How forced?)
The vid: "$1 Trillion in New "Subprime" loans"
PolicyLink - begin here...
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was established by Congress in 1977. The Act requires that deposit-taking financial institutions offer equal access to lending, investment and services to all those in an institution's geographic assessment area-at least three to five miles from each branch. In the case of large banks with many branches, the geographic area may encompass an entire county or even a state.
Before the CRA, many bankers excluded low-income neighborhoods and people of color from their lending products, investments, and financial services - a practice known as "redlining". Community activists coined the term when they discovered that the failure of banks to make loans in some low-income neighborhoods was so geographically distinct, that it was easy to draw red lines on maps to delineate the practices.
In the 1970s, activists in Chicago and across the country brought strong pressure on banks to lend equitably to all those in their communities. Since its passage, the CRA has been used across the United States to win tens of billions of dollars in new lending, investments, and services for communities. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition tracks more than $1 trillion dollars in community reinvestment pledges nationally. These pledges are explicit investments in equitable development goals, and finance many tools in this toolkit.
PolicyLink - end here.
The vid: ...and created subprime mortgage securities.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_th...ollar.html:
Greg, here.
I might have just started at the city-journal article, which I'll bookmark and read later. As with the PowerPoints I rail about on the other side, I can't follow this video. That's probably my own shortcoming.