Quote from 377OHMS:
Those are secondary effects.
The culprit is Greenspan. When the housing market overheated in 2004 he dumped gasoline on it by lowering rates.
All the nonsense about Fannie and Freddie, subprimes and adjustables came afterwards.
Greenspan caused this. Period.
Bush, whom I voted for twice, stood by and cheered on "home ownership".
The Fed should have raised rates. Any sane Fed chairman would have.
9/11 was a big issue too. We forget how much that changed everything with the huge amount of bureaucracy we created with Homeland Security.
John