One book that has documented what many observers and I have been saying for the past several years, confirms our efforts to overcome the perceived story behind the financial meltdown of 2008, that many and the conventional media blamed on “greedy” bankers.
Ironically, those who were chiefly responsible for the financial meltdown, were able to further legislate their failed regulation into the even more questionable, flawed, Dodd-Frank Act, naming the bill after two of the legislative actors responsible for the original debacle.
The book is from a long-time New York Times reporter, Gretchen Morgenson, and the financial analyst, Joshua Rosner, entitled "Reckless Endangerment." The Times represents the media who I consider particularly friendly to the sentiment that has permeated the thinking on the subject.
Morgenson and Rosner have offered their critique on all the participants in the financial mess; the rating agencies, investment bankers, real estate brokers, etc.
However, with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and to their political benefactors, the incentives were always there for more mortgage production, more insider profits, and more party campaign contributions.
The warning signs were there. The admonitions for caution were there. Key members of Congress were in the forefront of waiving off disciplinary warnings.
With a couple of prominent exceptions, the politicians claiming to do good for the poor. The supposed idea was to give homes to the poor but the rich got much richer, while the poor couldn’t even afford what homes they got for so little.
Along the way, insiders enriched themselves and their friends, stuffed their campaign coffers, and resisted all attempts to enforce market discipline. When the inevitable collapse arrived, the entire economy suffered, (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)
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