Yes, Bush's regulators were complicit. The career people didn't make the enforcement decisions. They were done by Bush appointees, and their hand picked SES people.
The bigger culprits were the independent brokers, which are much less regulated, and investment banks creating a completely unregulated product, knowing there were subprime loans in the mix. The independents were the ones who were using outright predatory practices, and outright fraud, to essentially victimize people with poor credit. They didn't care because they didn't have any skin in the game until the collapse.
Trying to blame CRA, shows that you are a piece of racist filth. The facts are there, you just don't want to put the blame where it belongs. 56% of the foreclosures were white. CRA mortgages were almost half as likely to result in foreclosure than those originated by independent mortgage companies. CRA institutions only accounted for 6% of subprime loans, the majority of which were refinancing and home equity loans.
Oh please more talking points....stop reading mother jones. AGAIN WHY would the independant brokers loan to people who couldnt pay, HOW do you make money on that?
Look man your article spells it out, minorities got hammered regulators didnt enforce regulations so that people could get homes that shouldnt have been getting them. Cuomo predicted this would happen, just not to the degree it did, he stated that '
Here is a longer cut (you'll know all the liberal buzzwords)
Who was denied credit? (hint he didnt say whites) The bank has agreed to change it's practices(and of course the governemtn issued no threats or had anything to do with it)...hmmmmmmmmmm interesting
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Oh wait, settlement, that means the government twisted arms.
To quote the Bamster they started out as a good idea....ooops unintended consequences and making banks loan to people they KNEW couldnt pay, alot of talk about risk, yet they still did it. They thought they could manage it and they couldnt......so lets NOT do this again, with say GM.....