Libsmasher
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I haven't heard any mention of this - probably because the historical memory of most lib media talking heads goes back about one year.
One of the causes, a big one, of the credit crisis goes back to the four-year running disaster of the Jimmy Carter administration.
In 1977, the democrat House, democrat Senate, and Jimmy Carter, passed the Community Reinvestment Act, basically "affirmative action" in mortgage lending, in which banks were forced to lend to financially unqualified minorities. This by itself is probably the origin of the sub-prime loan, and in any case lots of the threatened investment banks had big stakes in this type of risky loan. Eg, take bailed-out Bear-Stearns (wiki):
One of the causes, a big one, of the credit crisis goes back to the four-year running disaster of the Jimmy Carter administration.
In 1977, the democrat House, democrat Senate, and Jimmy Carter, passed the Community Reinvestment Act, basically "affirmative action" in mortgage lending, in which banks were forced to lend to financially unqualified minorities. This by itself is probably the origin of the sub-prime loan, and in any case lots of the threatened investment banks had big stakes in this type of risky loan. Eg, take bailed-out Bear-Stearns (wiki):
Bear Stearns made the first public securitization of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) loans started in 1997. [4] Economists claim that the CRA loans were lend to otherwise uncredit worthy consumers done in the name of ending discrimination.[5] [6]