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Originally Posted by Paul
LOL.
(I really hope you dont actually believe that).
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It’s much closer to that than the notion the bank holds savings which it lends out.
The days of a George Bailey down the Buildings and Loans went out in the 70s.
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Originally Posted by nomadking
 A building society such as Northern Rock, may have lent out money, but then they SOLD that mortgage. The buying company now owns the debt, as if they were the ones that issued the mortgage in the first place, and NR has money to lend out. In essence they were acting more as a self-appointed and self-serving mortgage broker. The first mortgage won't be on NR's accounts. From their point of view, the mortgage debt has been paid. You can only count the bank(etc)s current outstanding loans, not all the past ones added up together. The money for the 2nd mortgage has come from the buyer of the 1st. In turn the buyer has had to raise the money from somewhere. That will have come from investors or loans.
With no "parasites" prepared to buy NRs mortgages, NR was stuck. The banks weren't bailed out, it was the banking system that was. Confidence for depositors had to be propped up. Without the money from the depositors, loans of various sorts, couldn't happen. |
It’s almost like a system designed by parasites for parasites. Leaving the state to carry the can when the house of cards comes tumbling down.