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There is more than one opinion on the CRA matter.
CRA caused the housing crash
By Honest Abe on Fri, Oct 16th, 2009 at 7:40 am | 5111 views | rss | email this | add comment
YES, the “only” institutions which were regulated by CRA were large commercial banks, BUT that CREATED the DEMAND that small mortgage companies happily filled. CRA loans were bundled as securities and sold all around the world…but the starting point of the entire food chain was the government forcing commercial banks to make unwise loans.
What happens to prices when suddenly MILLIONS of people can now buy the same product? Thats right - bidding wars -and prices skyrocketed, didn’t they? With skyhigh prices many conventional borrowers chose Alt-A and Option Arm loans for the following reasons: (1) to get into the house, and (2) cope with skyhigh payments. Other’s with equity borrowed in order to buy commercial properties. The cancer spread and it all started with CRA, kinda like when you toss a pebble into a pond - the ripple effect. By some estimates all this housing activity accounted for more than 40% of ALL jobs in the U.S. since 2001. Its ALL inter-related. [more]
http://www.patrick.net/forum/?p=16997

Gee. What a great site that is. No doubt the world famous economist Honest Abe was just back from receiving his Nobel Prize in economics, when he suddenly decided to start a blog post. It seems a bit short on the econometrics front. I don't see any numbers, just some guy's speculation.

By the way, you really need to check out Patrick net:

http://www.patrick.net/forum/?p=16907

and take that anti-socialist pledge. Reality parser?

Originally Posted by nnuut

There is more than one opinion on the CRA matter.
CRA caused the housing crash
By Honest Abe on Fri, Oct 16th, 2009 at 7:40 am | 5111 views | rss | email this | add comment
YES, the “only” institutions which were regulated by CRA were large commercial banks, BUT that CREATED the DEMAND that small mortgage companies happily filled. CRA loans were bundled as securities and sold all around the world…but the starting point of the entire food chain was the government forcing commercial banks to make unwise loans.
What happens to prices when suddenly MILLIONS of people can now buy the same product? Thats right - bidding wars -and prices skyrocketed, didn’t they? With skyhigh prices many conventional borrowers chose Alt-A and Option Arm loans for the following reasons: (1) to get into the house, and (2) cope with skyhigh payments. Other’s with equity borrowed in order to buy commercial properties. The cancer spread and it all started with CRA, kinda like when you toss a pebble into a pond - the ripple effect. By some estimates all this housing activity accounted for more than 40% of ALL jobs in the U.S. since 2001. Its ALL inter-related. [more]
http://www.patrick.net/forum/?p=16997

Hey Phil opinions on both sides of this matter are all over the internet!! DO YOU WANT TO BET?
Just kidding!