The Mortgage Crisis of 2007 - A Love Story

In the future, when people project a fiscal and historical oculus back to 2007, one thing will clearly stand up out, and that is the mortgage "meltdown" that came to a caput during that year.

In truth, the full personal effects of this mortgage and loaning crisis are yet to been known, even as I compose this article in January of 2008. People are, however, beginning to flip the awful 'R' word around ... Recession. And why shouldn't they? Abroad, we are disbursement money we don't have got to struggle the seemingly eternal "war" in Iraq. While at place we are experiencing the so-called mortgage meltdown -- the worst in recorded fiscal history. It sure smells like a possible recession.

But this article isn't about recession. It's about love.

You see, many people don't recognize that the mortgage crisis of 2007 is really a love story. In fact, there are many different types of love overlapping here. It's just one large love-fest! See the followers types of love that are present here:

• We American consumers love to buy, even when it's not wise to make so.


• American corps love to net income from the consumers who love to buy.


• Government functionaries love to be paid for the problem of looking the other way.

Looking Back - A Love Narrative Unfolding

Through the mid 1990's and early 2000's, the figure of subprime mortgage loans rose significantly. A subprime loan is basically a loan made to person who really shouldn't be taking on the loan. But the loan is made possible out of love. The loaners love to bear down high involvement on consumers with bad credit, and those consumers lRove to purchase things (in malice of their bad credit).

Some mortgage loaners drop so deeply with this type of loaning (and the net income it produced) that they began to concentrate on it exclusively as a concern model. Thus they became known as subprime lenders, and they saw this as a opportunity to outmaneuver rivals by extending loans to borrowers that their rivals were turning away.

Economists, who love the truth and the information that supports it, began to warn against this practice. So some states began to go through limitations against certain types of subprime lending.

Ah, but those state politicians also love lobbyist dollars. So they establish themselves lacerate between two loves -- the love of doing the right thing, and the love of money funneled in from the mortgage industry itself. For example, see the fact that Governor Matthew Arnold Schwarzenegger of Golden State received well over a million dollars from associates of Ameriquest* (one of the biggest subprime loaning companies).

Incidentally, Golden State is 1 of the states hit worst by the mortgage crisis. Tons of love in California!

So this is yet another illustration of a politician who loves to have support from big corps -- corps that, in turn, love to determine our country's laws with some good old-fashioned greasing of skids. I loved Matthew Arnold in the original Conan movie, by the way, but I don't love him so much as a Governor.

The Love is Spreading All Around Us

The love of money, buying, selling and lobbying have created a mortgage crisis of truly epic poem proportions. And like any good fiscal crisis, it have distribute to other areas. When consumer loaning tightens, concern recognition and funding usually follows suit. Just listen to what a recent New House Of York Times article had to state about it recently:

"Credit fluent to American companies is drying up at a gait not seen in decades, threatening the creative activity of occupations and the enlargement of businesses, while intensifying concerns that the economic system may be headed for recession."

At the same time, we are seeing the dollar weaken against foreign currencies around the world. We should be alarmed by this! We should press for change! We should restrict spending! We should oppugn the White Person House's maniacal love for overspending on bootless ventures like the warfare in Iraq. We should inquire the question, "How long until the United States travels broke?" But there is another type of love that letups us into complacency...

Politicians at the peak degree love to offer encouragement by playing down the true badness of our fiscal crisis. They love to comfort us the manner 1 might comfort a kid who is teething.

And we just maintain swallowing it right up. Because love is blind.

* Sources: Federal Soldier Election Commission; National Institute on Money in Politics; Center for Populace Integrity; state revelation offices.