I don't think the workings of the economy interested him much. Hence, although his administration made some early attempts to control the housing/lending orgy, it also abandoned them easily and without a lot of fuss.
I tend to agree and surprisingly enough, if I am not mistaken, his MBA was in business from Harvard. Given the makeup of his cabinet, he may have not had strong conservative influence. Bush 41 was a globalist and it seems 43 had some of those traits as well. Home based capitalist oriented economics would be adversely received. Far different from Reagan....