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Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit
Washington Post ^ | 04/03/2013 | By Zachary A. Goldfarb,

Posted on 04/03/2013 6:32:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 04/03/2013 7:26:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: banks; bhofascism; corruption; democrats; homeloans; housing; housingbubble2; mortgages; obama; subprimeloans
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To: SeekAndFind

Here we go again!!! This is how the housing market was destroyed in the first place! FU OBAMA!!!


41 posted on 04/03/2013 8:27:57 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: SeekAndFind
  1. Force banks to make bad loans
  2. Attack banks for "tricking" minorities into taking out loans they can't afford
  3. Blame Republicans and the "evil 1%"
  4. Repeat

42 posted on 04/03/2013 8:55:43 AM PDT by PogySailor
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To: SeekAndFind

So, we can expect another housing bubble and market crash in, say, 3 1/2 years, just in time for the 2016 election to blame on the Republican Congress in place as a result of the 2014 election?


43 posted on 04/03/2013 9:32:22 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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To: PogySailor

loan disapproved=”redlining”
loan approved= “predatory lending”
(’pwedatowy wending’ if you’re Bawney Fwank)


44 posted on 04/03/2013 10:26:08 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Deja Vu .. all over again..


45 posted on 04/03/2013 11:06:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: SeekAndFind

Its called “reparations” folks get used to it!


46 posted on 04/03/2013 11:47:53 AM PDT by rhubarbk (BHO = FUBAR)
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To: SeekAndFind

...isn’t this what caused the first housing bubble?


47 posted on 04/03/2013 11:59:04 AM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: SeekAndFind

...isn’t this what caused the first housing bubble?


48 posted on 04/03/2013 11:59:05 AM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gee, what could go wrong?


49 posted on 04/03/2013 12:07:29 PM PDT by Mouton (108th MI Group.....68-71)
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To: Tzimisce
...isn’t this what caused the first housing bubble?

This dumb policy, rooted in the Community Reinvestment Act under the Carter administration, was only a minor contributor to the housing bubble.

The biggest culprit by far was the Federal Reserve. Had the Fed not intervened throughout the early 2000s to keep interest rates artificially low, had the Fed allowed interest rates to rise to reflect the increasing demand for loanable funds, then the higher interest rates would have choked off the bubble.

50 posted on 04/03/2013 12:15:52 PM PDT by kevao (.)
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To: Red Badger

If at first you don’t succeed (in destroying America), try, try again.


51 posted on 04/03/2013 1:59:57 PM PDT by Terry Mross (This country will fail to exist in my lifetime. And I'm gettin' up there in age.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Housing market must be recovering, gotta throw more sand in the engine quick!


52 posted on 04/03/2013 2:37:04 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not this sh*t again. This is how we got here.

WHAT IF A BANK REFUSES TO LISTEN TO HIM? What can he do? Same as last time. Threaten to put them out of business.


53 posted on 04/03/2013 7:01:20 PM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (It only takes one to start hostilities. It takes two to agree to end them.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Uhuh.


54 posted on 04/03/2013 7:27:06 PM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: Terry Mross

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Invest in Democrats
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html

Freddie Mac records exempt from FOIA -Obama Admin Denies FOIA Request
http://realtime.sunlightprojects.org/2009/03/26/freddie-mac-records-exempt-from-foia/

Pressured to take more risk, Fannie hit a tipping point
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/business/05fannie.html?hp


55 posted on 04/03/2013 7:40:37 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Give them grief!


56 posted on 04/03/2013 11:21:15 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: sickoflibs

The CRA -—Community Reinvestment Act-—was started under Carter—and exploded under Clinton with Henry Cisneros & Reno helping strongly.

Carter believed that ‘HOME’ ownership was a right & he even authorized that food stamps were to be considered income to get a home. Reno threatened to sue every bank that balked and she meant it.

Not the fault of GWB.


57 posted on 04/04/2013 10:33:11 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: BradtotheBone

You forgot to add:

Unemployment proceeds as an acceptable source of income on a mortgage application.”””

Under Jimmah Carter, FOOD STAMPS were to be considered income by the banks.


58 posted on 04/04/2013 10:34:35 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: sickoflibs; All

” It worked GREAT for GWB. What could go wrong?”

Somebody should go back to the summer of 06, where I warned of a trillion dollar mortgage bloodbath : )


59 posted on 04/04/2013 11:38:23 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: SeekAndFind

Documentation File on the negative impact of the Obamanation Counterculture on America.


60 posted on 04/04/2013 11:42:30 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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