francoHFW
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Clinton policy being glass-steagall repeal, which was a GOP bill... Still it took ridiculous bush regulation to give us a world depressionLet me fill you in on a little something here: F and F has a boss, and that boss is HUD. HUD creates the lending guidelines that F and F has to enforce.
When Andrew Cuomo was appointed by Clinton to be the head of HUD, he was not only the youngest person to be appointed, but the most inexperienced as well.
It was Cuomo who created the 0% down and no credit checks to support Clinton's efforts to increase minority home ownership. If you clicked on any of my links, you will see those were written before the housing crash, and that F and F diminished their requirements for loans.
It didn't have an immediate effect because the economy was going downhill; especially after 911. But when Bush got the economy going again, so did the housing market.
Bush and the Republicans are to blame--but only partly because they didn't start all this. This was started by Clinton. They were both at fault for the housing bubble and crash.
All that, plus...
It's started few years before Cuomo became HUD secretary. Even during his candidacy, Clinton run on idea of using private pension funds to finance "government priorities", and when he got elected, he claim along with then HUD secretary Cisneros, that pension investments in affordable housing are "as safe as pension investments in stocks and bonds". Since that idea never took of because pension funds rejected it, they started pressuring banks into giving subprime loans.
Just as Reagan policies caused S&L crisis ($220B bailout), Clinton policies such as CRA of 1995, and TRA of 1997, and repeal of Glass-Steagall Act in late 1999, same policies continued by Bush caused last financial crisis.
Then lefties claim... "it happened under Bush", because that's all they've been told, and all they know. Yes, crash itself did happened under Bush, but cause of the crash has its roots in bad Democrat policies. Like pretty much every other Democrat policy, when in full effect, it fuck us up badly, and for a long time.
I think the Republicans Fd up with a plan that turned against them. They allowed the Clinton policies to go on so THEY could take credit for higher minority home ownership during the Bush years. They moved a little too soft a little too late. But on the other hand, if they would have come down hard and swift, the Democrats would have accused them of robbing minorities out of owning their own homes.