The financial system is broken. We can use that term in late 2008, and I think it’s fair to still use the term unfortunately. We know that parts of it are absolutely broken, like the mortgage market which only happens to be the most important part of our capital markets [and has] become a subsidiary of the U.S. government.
Volcker is right that the mortgage market has become a subsidiary of Uncle Sam. And it is ironic that government-owned GSEs Freddie and Fannie are shareholders of MERS – one of the main sources of mortgage fraud in the country. See MERS’website, and this presentation by Congressman Grayson.
Volcker also said:
I don’t think anyone doubts that the underlying problem in the markets is the too big to fail syndrome, and the bailouts ….
For more on too big to fail banks, see this. For details on bailouts, see this and this.
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