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    For decades Americans couldn’t help but rejoice when they were able to own their very own home. The image of holding the keys and to quickly step foot into their home provided Americans with visons of prosperity. Many Americans whether poor, middle-class, or wealthy could now dream of endless possibilities when owning their very own home, as well as embracing a sense of accomplishment. These accomplishments or feelings were great at first; however, the realty for some Americans was that behind the

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    Savings and Loans Crisis was the greatest bankcollapse since the Great Depression of 1929. By 1989, more than 1,000 of the nation's Savings and Loans (S&Ls) had failed. This effectively ended what had once been a secure source of home mortgages. Half of the nation's failed S&Ls were from Texas, pushing that state into recession. As bad land investments were auctioned off, real estate prices collapsed, office vacancies rose to 30%, and crude oil prices fell 50%. The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance

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    Recent figures show nearly 3 percent of all U.S. home mortgages are now in foreclosure, and experts are saying that number will rise for at least another year. The foreclosures add to the growing pool of unsold homes in a market that has been deteriorating for the past two years. This is driving down prices of all homes, most of those whose owners have never missed a payment. That’s why it is in everyone’s interest to stop this wave of foreclosures and get the unsold inventory off the market as quickly

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    The images of the foreclosure crisis are startling: families forced out of their homes, bank executives begging Congress for bailouts, government officials scrambling to put the nation’s financial system back together. Such disarray, however, arises from a very simple moment – when a hopeful family sits down with a loan officer at their local bank. In that moment, the collective fates of the family, the bank and national financial system are sealed. For better or worse, the outcome of the meeting

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    each time a bank makes an advance, new cash is made. In the keep running up to the monetary emergency, banks made tremendous aggregates of new cash by making advances. In only 7 years, they multiplied the measure of cash and obligation in the economy. Loaning huge entireties of cash into the property market pushes up the cost of houses alongside the level of individual obligation. Premium must be paid on every one of the advances that banks make, and with the obligation rising speedier than wages

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    enormously common topic among economists, hence it plays an extremely important role in the economy. There are many questions that were asked about the financial crisis, one of the most common question that dragged attention was ’’How did the government (Federal Reserve) contributed to the financial crisis?’’ In this essay, I will briefly explain what happened during the financial crisis of 2007-09, and also discuss the contribution of the government to the financial crisis. What leads to the financial

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    which produced the first financial crisis. This was the first time which Americans experienced a bank run when US securities and bank stock prices started to increase. During the Revolutionary war I, the US Government assumed the financial obligations of two states being South Carolina and Massachusetts, which incurred a debt of $65 million owned, due to the war. Amidst bankruptcies, default mortgage loans and a decline in lendable money, the economy was at a staggering halt. William Duer and Alexander

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    Bridgewater Bank was founded in November 2015 by Jerry Baack. It is a community bank established in Bloomington, Minnesota. The headquarter building is the same location as the first branch. According to North Western financial review, Bridgewater Bank merged and acquainted First National Bank of the Lakes in Orono, Minnesota. Currently, all four branches are located in Minnesota. Although this bank is Non-member of the Federal Reserve System, it is regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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    dilemma to the businesses, to the employees and to the elated new home owners. JP Morgan Chase was one of the major banks participated in falsifying the mortgage loans, and they suffered consequences for what they did. The mortgage loans gave temporary joy but longtime misery to home buyers. The federal government filed a lawsuit, and it reached a settlement. The tragedy resulted to Global and Financial reforms. The mortgage loans were used in risky businesses. Back in 2008, James Dimon, the head

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    Financial Crisis Rebirth

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    They were not sited during the financial crisis for any wrongdoing. However, they were known to pressure banks for loans for people who were probably unable to afford a home and would eventually default. NACA was vocal in exposing early signs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s being allowed to expand “into the sub-prime market mortgage during a hearing before the House of Financial Services

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