Pure liberal BS as usual. There were various causes piling up from the time of Clinton through W's time, but the floodgates were opened in 2007. Even if their predecessors (all the way back from 1992) were at fault, that's the last chance for Congress to step on the fiscal brake and they (Dems in control) didn't do it, they just flooded the market with money and blamed Bush... And they still do it because they know that their base doesn't know much, they just want what's promised to them for their vote, that's all.Quote from Free Thinker:
you aint too bright are you? the seeds of the real estate crash that happened in 2007 were sown several years before that by republican policies of deregulation and lax regulatory enforcement. still in your mind it was the dems who caused it all within months of their taking control?
the cra as the cause of the real estate crash has pretty much been debunked as the cause of the crash among anybody with a brain.
Quote from Free Thinker:
geeze you guys. sometimes i feel like a teacher with 20 year old fifth graders.
bill clinton signed the bill but he did not lead it. he was reluctant to sign it.
the repeal of glass steagall bill was called the "GrammâLeachâBliley Act". it was a republican bill.
Sen. Phil Gramm (R, Texas), Rep. Jim Leach (R, Iowa), and Rep. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (R, Virginia), the co-sponsors of the GrammâLeachâBliley Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act
The escalation and explosion of the new mortgage derivatives started around that time, but damaging info about them was available by the middle of 2007 and Congress refused to act. Barney Frank and his cohorts were giving speeched in the summer of 2007 that all (eg, Freedie Mack and Fanny May) was fine. Later that summer and into the fall 2007 Barney admitted that "these organizations are a bit shaken and may not be prime candidates for investment now, but they are fundamentally sound." A few months after that they both collapsed, taking lots of other things with them.Quote from Free Thinker:
so in your limited mind all the home loans that went bad were made in the first couple of months of 2007?
Quote from Lucrum:
Of course you have, you're called a dickhead right here on ET almost daily.
And for good reason.