
которые не вызывают отвращения по причине зашкаливающего уровня бла-бла-бла
Оказывается, кризис спровоцирован демократами в Конгрессе, которые даже в годы правления Буша имели возможность продавливать выгодные им законы
Оказывается, власти вынуждали банки выдавать гнилые кредиты
Ever since the 1930s, the federal government has involved itself deeply in housing policy and developed numerous programs to encourage homebuilding and homeownership.
Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were able to obtain a monopoly position in the mortgage market, especially the mortgage-backed securities market, because of the advantages bestowed upon them by the federal government.
Laws passed by Congress such as the Community Reinvestment Act required banks to make loans to previously underserved segments of their communities, thus forcing banks to lend to people who normally would be rejected as bad credit risks.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/23/paul.bailout/index.html
Это пишет одиозный Рон Пол, но я читал подобное и в других местах, например
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=306978378974502
Fannie and Freddie, the main vehicle for Clinton's multicultural housing policy, drove the explosion of the subprime housing market by buying up literally hundreds of billions of dollars in substandard loans — funding loans that ordinarily wouldn't have been made based on such time-honored notions as putting money down, having sufficient income, and maintaining a payment record indicating creditworthiness.
With all the old rules out the window, Fannie and Freddie gobbled up the market. Using extraordinary leverage, they eventually controlled 90% of the secondary market mortgages. Their total portfolio of loans topped $5.4 trillion — half of all U.S. mortgage lending. They borrowed $1.5 trillion from U.S. capital markets with — wink, wink — an "implicit" government guarantee of the debts.
This created the problem we are having today.