To: The Wall Street Journal
Re: “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble”
By: Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Dated: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In his article on your opinion page, “The Fed Didn’t Cause the Housing Bubble,” Alan Greenspan attributes the housing bubble to lower interest rates between 2002 and 2005. That’s amazing to me.
My company served as lead financial advisor to the Federal Housing Administration between 1994 and 1997. I watched both the Administration and the Federal Reserve aggressively implement the policies that engineered the housing bubble. These are described at my website and in my on-line book,Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Profits (http://www.dunwalke.com).
One story, for example, is the following:
“In 1995, a senior Clinton Administration official shared with me the Administration’s targets for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage volumes in low- and moderate-income communities. We had recently reviewed the Administration’s plans to increase government mortgage guarantees — most of these mortgages would also be pooled and sold as securities to investors. Even in 1995, I could see that these plans would create unserviceable debt loads in communities struggling with the falling incomes expected from globalization. Homeowners would default on mortgages while losses on mortgage-backed securities would drain retirement savings from 401(k)s and pension plans. Taxpayers would ultimately be hit with a large bill . . . but insiders would make a bundle. I looked at the official and said that the Administration was planning on issuing more mortgages than there were houses or residents. “Shut up, this is none of your business,” the official snapped back.”
From: “Sub-Prime Mortgage Woes Are No Accident” /sub-prime-mortgage-woes-are-no-accident/)
One of the dirty little secrets behind the housing bubble is the long standing partnership of narcotics trafficking and mortgage fraud and the use of the two in combination to target and destroy minority and poor communities with highly profitable economic warfare. This model is global. It is operating in counties throughout the world as well as in US communities.
Of all the actions that the Federal Reserve took to engineer this housing bubble, the one that I would note is Mr. Greenspan’s efforts to pacify Congresswoman Waters regarding allegations of government sponsored narcotics trafficking at a time when open Congressional hearings would have contributed to an important discussion of the operations engaging in mortgage fraud in minority communities. See, “Financial Coup d’Etat,” Chapter 16, Dillon Read & the Aristocracy of Stock Profits which was written in 2005 and published in April 2006, drawing from an article I first published in May 1999.
“On December 18, 1997, the CIA Inspector General delivered Volume I of their report to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding charges that the CIA was complicit in narcotics trafficking in South Central Los Angeles. Washington, D.C. ’s response was compatible with attracting the continued flow of an estimated $500 billion–$1 trillion a year of money laundering into the U.S. financial system. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in January 1998 visited Los Angeles with Congresswoman Maxine Waters — who had been a vocal critic of the government’s involvement in narcotics trafficking — with news reports that he had pledged billions to come to her district. In February Al Gore announced that Water’s district in Los Angeles had been awarded Empowerment Zone status by HUD (under Secretary Cuomo’s leadership) and made eligible for $300 million in federal grants and tax benefits.”
Alan Greenspan is a liar. The Federal Reserve and its long standing partner, the US Treasury, engineered the housing bubble, including the fraudulent inducement of America as part of a financial coup d’etat. Our bankruptcy was not an accident. It was engineered at the highest levels.
Your publication of Greenspan’s breezy and bogus history of the housing bubble insults your readership.
Best Regards,
Catherine Austin Fitts
Assistant Secretary of Housing – Federal Housing Commissioner, Bush I
To answer Tims last question -justice or tyranny,I would add organised corruption on world wide scale as world wide bankers are well able to do.They are often of one ethinic group eating only kosher food.They respect each other but no one else.It is part of the religion.so how can you blame them?
Its-a-good-time-to-buy-stocks-and-a-house!
Love,
Kudlow
I blame Greenspan, but not for the reasons you cite. The origins of the bubble came from the 2000 Presidential campaign. George W. Bush pledged to make massive cuts to personal income tax if he were elected.
Instead of announcing that such extreme cuts were inflationary and would lead to massive budget deficits, Greenspan endorsed them, and then pursued a policy of keeping rates extremely low.
The immediate result was a massive surge in housing prices and extreme overbuilding. The long-term consequences? Well, we are experiencing them right now.
It is So-o-o-o apparent that we are owned. There isn’t enough guts in Congress to make anything happen and “they” know it. The over whelming majority of the Government (including our “several united states”) is bought and paid for. There must be action… and voting doesn’t cut it…we must have a bigger, grander plan. Enough of us DO know, but it appears none of us can find the key to unlock our prison doors… I know it is right in front of us… that we are so-o-o dumbed down and blind is embarrassing. Even in “following the money”… what does that do if no one can enforce the simple “law of the Land”… what do “they” fear? Even knowing about CAFR doesn’t even bring a sweat to “them”. It is too easy for “them” to say literally, “So what?”
It is down to leaving to more sane third world countries..From Harry Potter’s conversation with Sirius Black, “Is it war?”,asked Harry. “It feels like it did before”,replied Sirius…
Very Good article Catherine.
There were probably billions made by those who understood the nature of the game and shorted the subprime securities via credit default swaps.
Perhaps they were the same who shorted Bear Stearns.
John Olagues
Very good article Catherine.
There were probably billions made by insiders close to Greenspan who shorted the subprime securities vis credit default swaps, and understood the nature of the game.
Perhaps they were the same who shorted Bear Stearns tipped by Dimon, Cox and Bernanke.
John Olagues
The global bankers should have their assets ceased under the proceeds of crime laws.One thing I cannot understand is this. If an ordinary man is in liquidation and cannot pay off his debts then he will get threatening phone calls and letters from his bank to make repayment. They will terrorize him and eventually force him into bankruptcy. However,when the banks cannot pay their debts then they get bailled out to the tune of billions of dollars which everyone has to pay for.Which does this seem like to you, Justice or Tyranny.