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| Burned Kettle
Calling the Dodd-Frank Act a “negative force,” presumptive
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he will unveil a plan to
overhaul the controversial Wall Street reform law that was passed in 2010 in
response to the crisis.
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While he did not disclose specific changes he would dismantle Dodd-Frank.
“Dodd-Frank has made it impossible for bankers to function,”
Trump said “It makes it very hard for bankers to loan
money for people to create jobs, for people with businesses to create jobs. And
that has to stop.”
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary
Clinton, was swift to respond to Trump’s stated intention to overhaul
Dodd-Frank. Wednesday morning, Clinton tweeted, “Latest reckless idea from
Trump: gut rules on Wall Street, and leave middle-class families out to dry.”
I'm not sure either one knows what they are speaking about. Dodd Frank was a well meaning but stupidly executed plan. Dodd Frank made the big banks richer and the little guy not to get a mortgage. Dodd Frank did not get the crooks and liars out of mortgage banking, the tin men sales people moved to loan modifications, those who couldn't pass a knowledge test moved to sell cars or work under someone else's license. I challenge Borrowers who say they had no idea their payment might go up. I do admit that African Americans were preyed upon by some lenders, who gave them higher rate loans. Of the thousands of Option ARM loans I closed I have a tough time convincing a Borrower whose rate is now under 3% but has to make principle payments to refinance.
Republicans have been trying to roll
back Dodd-Frank ever since it was passed in July 2010. Lately several
bills aimed at chipping away at the law have gained traction in Congress.
In mid-April, two bills
passed in the House Financial Services Committee; one to repeal Dodd-Frank’s
bailout fund for large, complex financial institutions and one to put the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s spending on a budget in an attempt to
make the Bureau more accountable to taxpayers. CFPB has become the gorilla in the day care center.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), Chairman of the House Financial
Services Committee, recently told DS News that “America needs a new vision—a
new model for financial reform—because the Dodd Frank Act is a failure.”
Democrats have generally been fiercely protective of Dodd-Frank
and highly critical of Republican efforts to undermine it. Rep. Maxine Waters
(D-California), ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, said
of those two bills that passed in the Committee in mid-April, “Both of these
bills, if enacted, would take our financial system back to September of 2008,
when regulators did not have the tools to protect consumers or the broader
economy from financial sector ruin. It would take us back to a time when we
were hemorrhaging nearly 800,000 jobs a month, household wealth dropped by $13
trillion, and millions of our fellow Americans were facing foreclosure,
eviction, and potential homelessness.”
Where is our country going?
Tip if your kettle gets black from propane gas not being mixed right- Fells Napha soap on the pot can help. Rather than just calling the kettle black
