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By Devon Beaty

Analysis and Comparison of the Regulatory Responses to the Great Depression and Financial Crisis of 2007-2008. By Devon Beaty. Overview. Hypothesis The Great Depression Financial Crisis of 2007. Hypothesis. Inequality of Income was a major factor in both panics

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  1. Analysis and Comparison of the Regulatory Responses to the Great Depression and Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 By Devon Beaty

  2. Overview • Hypothesis • The Great Depression • Financial Crisis of 2007

  3. Hypothesis • Inequality of Income was a major factor in both panics • Deregulation of New Deal Legislation caused the recent recession to be more severe than it had to be

  4. The Great Depression

  5. Historical Background Andrew Mellon: Secretary of the Treasury (1921-1932) • Decline in Industrial Production • Decline in Agricultural Prices • European Financial Collapse • Hoover Orthodox Economic policy

  6. Theory: Spending John Maynard Keynes • The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) • Circular flow of money • Expand money supply • Liquidity trap • Government replaces consumer spending • “Priming the Pump”

  7. Theory: Monetary Milton Friedman • A Monetary History of the United States (1963) • Federal Reserve • Tightening Monetary Policy • Raising Interest Rates • Failure to stabilize banking system

  8. Regulation and Policy • The Glass-Steagall Act of 1932 and 1933 • Securities and Exchange Commission • National Housing Act • Federal National Mortgage Association

  9. Hypothesis 1 • Income inequality did play a partial role in the Great Depression • Peter Temin • Paul Krugman’s Great Compression

  10. Financial Crisis of 2007

  11. Historical Background • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac • Securitization • Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 • Alternative Mortgage Transaction Parity Act of 1982 • Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act

  12. Collateralized Debt Obligations

  13. Anna Katherine Hart-Barnett CDO Meltdown Harvard

  14. Anna Katherine Hart-Barnett CDO Meltdown Harvard

  15. Derivatives Brooksley Born: Chairperson of the CFTC (1996-1999) • OTC derivatives • Commodities Futures Trading Commission • Commodities Future Modernization Act of 2000 • Credit Default Swaps

  16. Credit Default Swap

  17. Financial Collapse

  18. Regulatory Agencies Alan Greenspan: Chairman of Federal Reserve (1987-2006) • Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act • Federal Reserve keeps rates low • CFTC sterilized • SEC allows increased leverage

  19. Housing Bubble • Low Interest rates made ARMs, Variable-rate and Sub-primes attractive • 2004 home ownership rate peaked an all time high of 70% • Individuals began using homes as an investment • Federal Reserve Interest rate increase offset by countries like Germany, Japan and China

  20. Housing Bubble cont. • Foreign money helped excess • NINJA loans • Financial Institutions increase leverage • Surplus in houses; decline in prices • Sup-prime payments too high • Equity in houses decreases • Foreclosures further lowered prices

  21. “Too Big to Fail” • Sub prime industry collapse • Financial Institutions began to collapse also • Bear Stearns acquired by J.P. Morgan • Investment banks reported large losses • Banks stop lending to each other • Leman Brothers collapse • Merrill Lynch sold to Bank of America

  22. “Too Big to Fail” cont. • Certain institutions’ failure would systematic collapse • AIG owed billions through CDS defaults • U.S lent 85 billion to AIG alone • Congress authorized 700 billion in bank bailouts

  23. Corporate Compensation • Simon Johnson argues that increase in corporate pay compensation drove financiers to increase profits through risk • Lawrence H. White argues that it was govt. through low interest rates and encouraging unqualified barrowers for loans

  24. The Banking Crisis pg. 33 Simon Johnson

  25. Financial Regulation

  26. Troubled Asset Relief Program • Treasury Dept. can buy or insure 700 billion in troubled assets • Targeted assets were CDOs • Bush administration began it on October 3, 2008 • Initially estimated at 365 billion but only cost billion

  27. Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act • Restructure of regulatory agencies • Financial Stability Oversight Council • Volcker rule • Certain non-bank financial institutions supervised by the Federal Reserve • Office of Thrift Supervision eliminated

  28. Hypothesis 2 • Deregulation played a major role in the Financial crisis • Banks maximized profits by using risky assets. • Regulatory oversight could have stopped the financial meltdown.

  29. Questions

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