Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
You are off your rocker. Completely. The banks were forced to do NOTHING. This was greed and opportunism and reckless, unregulated speculation that the housing market was going to inflate forever. This was banks not even doing BASIC CREDIT CHECKS or verifying the income of anyone who walked in and said I make 400,000, give me a loan for that 680,000 dollar house.

You are, just.. wrong. I'm sorry but you are.
That's the socialist triumph version, they weren't allowed to refuse a loan. Not even our crypto-communist government would come up with such a pearl of equality goodness.