[nyconse]

Greed mandated what the banks did...

[Dead Corpse]

Greed in an of itself isn't a bad thing. You think Henry Ford came up with a better assembly line because he was a humanitarian?

Government mandates much of what the financial institutions have been doing the last decade or two. Even before the Community Reinvestment Act. Everything that is currently falling down around our ears can be laid at Congress' feet.