His SEC lifted the "uptick" rule. Anyone with an MBA should have known where that was going. As Chief Executive it was his DUTY to call attention to the sub-prime mess and do everything in his power to stop it. Giving credit where credit is due he did mention it in a couple of speeches to Congress, but otherwise >>>>crickets<<<<<
I remember in the spring of 2007, Team Bush started making rounds on the news-talkies. Their message -- Everything is fine, no problems.
I thought it strange at the time that they were out in force and delivering that kind of message, because everything seemed to be going okay.
Then, by mid summer, the dominoes started dropping -- and they are continuing even now.
The Bush economic team saw the looming disaster, tried to head it off until they were out of office; but they failed by a few months.