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- Nov 8, 2011
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The system was designed top to bottom to serve the big investors and they got greedy. China's new investor class was pulling up with dump trucks full of money begging to invest in the up until then solid American mortgage market. Problem was there were not enough good mortgages to go around so they steadily eased financial requirements. The biggest recipient of this was not regular homeowners but the house flippers with their expensive five year mortgages. As a group these sharks walked away as soon as they went underwater.The homeowners didn't force the banks to make bad loans.
The homeowners didn't force Fannie and Freddie to buy bad loans.