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To: bruinbirdman
Community Reinvestment Act+Cheap Money => Housing Bubble => Stupid Mortgage Instruments + Home Equity Loans to Borrow 50K to buy a stupid truck => No Savings => Sh_t Happens.

And it's happening now.

34 posted on 09/14/2008 9:25:13 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (MSM Lied, Journalism Died. RIP 2008)
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To: jwalsh07

Sorry, we can’t pin this in any part on the Community Reinvestment Act. That’s been on the books for 30 years without this sort of repercussion. When nonprofit groups lend to the poor, they demand all sorts of safeguards—financial education, limits on the value of the houses sold, and so forth. The mortgage companies that have lended did not—they loaned to everybody, and lots of times, not even poor people—just people who bought more house than they could afford.


51 posted on 09/15/2008 4:03:00 AM PDT by ciocia
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