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¶ … Congressional Committee identified for the recent financial crisis.
It would be nearly impossible to assess the financial crisis from 2006 to 2010, which largely began in the United States and reverberated around the world, without acknowledging the complicity of credit agencies. This fact is widely acknowledged by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which "spreads the blame widely to regulators, politicians, financial firms and credit rating agencies" (O'Donnell, 2011). The role that crediting agencies played in the aforementioned fiscal crisis was substantial -- they egregiously relaxed their standards and issued credit and credit products (such as ratings of an individual's credit) to those who previously, they would not have. Moreover, it is noteworthy that this trend in which the attaining of credit and credit products became easier and easier to access began well before the actual crisis. The following quotation alludes to this fact. "It is generally accepted that credit standards in the U.S. mortgage lending were...
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This fact is one that was greatly addressed by the Congressional Committee dedicated to the financial crisis. The ramifications of giving credit to purchase homes to individuals who did not rightfully deserve it, and who would not be able to maintain jobs and pay off their loans was a considerable factor in the housing bust that greatly exacerbated the crisis. Such "high risk lending" (Levin, 2011, p. 2) typified many home loans during this time period. Moreover, loan standards were so greatly lowered that, due to some of the lowest prime interest rates in the better part of the previous century, individuals were able to purchase homes purely based on credit, without putting any money down. Such practices created a situation in which there was not enough capital going around and the economy dangerously teetered on credit as its mainstay. Thus, when its lack of capital was finally exposed, it reached an inevitable implosion that, combined with several other key events, led…
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Jickling, M. (2010). Causes of the financial crisis. Congressional Research Service.
Levin, C. (2011). Wall street and the financial crisis: anatomy of a financial collapse. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
O'Donnell, A. (2011). Congressional Committee on financial crisis goes light on government blame. Insurance & Technology. Retrieved from http://www.insurancetech.com/regulation/congressional-committee-on-financial-cri/229100320
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