Watch the movie and you'll see what happened and why. As told by the people who knew it was happening.You do realize it was the lack of regulations on stuff like subprimes that started the recession right?
The ONLY REASON why there was a "subprime" market was because BIG GOVERNMENT like billionaire Clinton hack Franklin Raines had the US taxpayer INSURE mortgages the home "owner" couldn't possibly pay....
It was BIG GOVERNMENT's power grab. The housing market was over 200 years old, and never went down like it did.
"Low income housing" and the desire to bilk the taxpayer via Fannie and Freddie, that's what caused it...
Before Franklin Raines, mortgages to prospects who couldn't pay WERE REJECTED.
After Franklin, Uncle Sam covered...
Franklin Raines is the single most responsible person for the disaster.
And like Obama, he got filthy rich wrecking the US....
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Housing without "regulations" did fine. Housing with TAXPAYER INSURED MORTAGES BLEW UP....