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Is there not a danger that such Guarantee Societies will attract the highest risk borrowers who cannot get loans elsewhere and thus represent a sub-prime risk?

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Fri Dec 21st, 2007 at 01:57:33 PM EST
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We are talking "bottom up" community based groups here, probably both geographical and functional. ie any group of individuals with a "common bond".

But local groupds will be able to link together to form "pools of pools" and so on...

Conventional "microcredit" Grameen Bank style relies upon small groups of guarantors.

And when you think about it, all that credit derivatives are is a form of time limited guarantee, but not exactly a transparent one...

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Fri Dec 21st, 2007 at 02:27:07 PM EST
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ChrisCook:
We are talking "bottom up" community based groups here, probably both geographical and functional. ie any group of individuals with a "common bond".

But local groupds will be able to link together to form "pools of pools" and so on...

Sounds like the credit union movement to me....

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Sat Dec 22nd, 2007 at 06:21:48 AM EST
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The Guarantee Society concept enables the membership of Credit Unions to engage with each other and with businesses in mutually beneficial credit creation, and with the additional possibility of settlement of this bilateral credit in what would essentially be a "local currency".

Existing credit unions would manage the process and the default "pool", and handle accounting and defaults etc as "service providers".

"Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky

by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Sat Dec 22nd, 2007 at 07:08:50 AM EST
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