I never did clear president Bush for his part.
Governments have been messing with money for thousands of years.
1980’s Home equity tax deductions were not part of the cause of this recent housing collapse. That’s like saying child tax credits will result in an overpopulated baby boom.
My link is about the 1990’s because that’s where the lending requirements went to hades. Pointing out loans from the 1980’s when the lending requirements were sound makes no sense to me.
These are the methods socialists use to increase the size and our dependence on big government. They desensitize us as the decades pass until you don't even see the manipulation any more.