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If you're talking about prohibiting red-lining, it isn't true. There's this meme out there that banks were "forced" to lend money to poor people. All the law required was that the banks couldn't ban entire neighborhoods from getting loans. They had to judge the viability of the loan purely on individual factors.

Now, if you're talking about the ability to bundle and sell mortgages as an investment vehicle, then you might have point. That bundling allowed otherwise unsalable loans to be packaged with better loans and tagged with a AAA rating. It was basically legal fraud aimed at selling crap to investors.
I can't even remember which book it was, but more too it than that
 
I can't even remember which book it was, but more too it than that

Yes, there is more to it than that. Various Wallstreet firms took those bundled loans, securitized them, and then bet against against them, while selling them to other investors. The book you're thinking of might be The Big Short by Michael Lewis. He goes through step-by-step what happened.
 
Yes, there is more to it than that. Various Wallstreet firms took those bundled loans, securitized them, and then bet against against them, while selling them to other investors. The book you're thinking of might be The Big Short by Michael Lewis. He goes through step-by-step what happened.

Oh I've read a few, think it was All the Devils are Here
 
Jesus. :facepalm:

Her trying to say that meant something else was pitiful.
do you mean this bit?

"The whole idea was to do the counter-intuitive by saying cautious politician time. Every actor thought it was a joke on a different convention. That was the whole idea,” he later told CNN on Monday. “I think people are missing the point here.”
 
I dunno, I think that is what they were aiming for - it reads as really awkwardly scripted. Really badly misjudged, but they weren't just making a racist joke and then quickly covering it up. They were making a racist joke as part of a shit 'edgy' routine.
 
I dunno, I think that is what they were aiming for - it reads as really awkwardly scripted. Really badly misjudged, but they weren't just making a racist joke and then quickly covering it up. They were making a racist joke as part of a shit 'edgy' routine.

I agree with that. I think I meant the routine itself, her saying "oh no, I meant something else" as part of it is pitiful. How they could ever have thought "that sounds like a fun idea" idk
 
Sanders rally in Washington Square NY tonight, and while supporters are always apt to inflate figures of attendance, I'm seeing photos of ridiculous amounts of people and reports of over 20k people (seen one report of 30k but I'm trying to be sensible).

Meanwhile, a prominent Hillary supporter says it's a hate rally and idly wonders on twitter if they are passing armbands out.

Wow.

 
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I admit I've avoided looking into what bell hooks had to say about the race, because I was scared she'd champion Hillary. Of course, I feel a fool now, because how could she? At the forefront of interrogating class and race as part of feminism, how could she?

ngl, my stupid sentimental self teared up a bit. Someone with her standing and importance has a lot of influence - or should at any rate. With the discourse around feminism that's dogging the whole process, and all the salty hot takes about how it's "Hillary's time" and we should "strike one for feminism and the sake of women" and especially considering the racial undertones the whole thing has had... I'm really pleased to hear this.
 
Most recent estimate is 48K in total, only (ONLY) 27K let into the park over safety concerns, so the rest stayed outside.

40K streaming it live on facebook, 17K on youtube.

Aw, come on New York. You vote on my birthday. Do it for me :D
 
Comparisons being made about how Hillary went to talk to some of the striking workers but had a fundraiser with Verizon chiefs.
 
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Bernie Sanders responds to CEOs of Verizon and GE: "I welcome their contempt"

Bernie Sanders denounced the CEO of GE for the company's tax-dodging practices and the CEO of Verizon for doing the same and exploiting its workers, 40,000 of whom are out on strike.

The CEOs retaliated with public denunciations of their own, claiming Sanders was "looking for convenient villains" (Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam) and "[taking] cheap shots" because he didn't have to live "in the real world" (General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt).

Sanders took to Twitter to welcome the plutocrats' brickbats, saying he "welcomed their contempt."

 
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