Housing Bubble Caused by Greedy Capitalists?

whose fault is the housing bubble?

  • house flippers

    Votes: 8 57.1%
  • poor people

    Votes: 6 42.9%

  • Total voters
    14

sailfish

Master of Karate and Friendship for Everyone
I was always under the impression the collapse was cause by reckless borrowing and defaulting in general, regardless of how wealthy or not those borrowers were.
 

Jones

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Jones

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Probably the best explanation I've come across for the housing crash, does a good job of breaking down a complex issue:

 

rickyb

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michael hudson, steve keen, dean baker all predicted the housing bubble. i would also check out william k black.

there was alot of banking fraud where they knowingly made loans to people who they knew couldnt pay them back, and then made bets against them.

also a system where you make loans to people will drive up prices creating a bubble.

bill clinton is responsible for deregulating the banking system.

the US economy is heavily financialized so perhaps this has something to do with it, i forget.

taking on debt is another way of making up for decades of stagnating wages.

the chief executives should have gone to jail, and the underwater loans should have been bailed out in essence written down to market value. but instead the bankers got off free and got bailed out with bonuses. the unemployment was unnecessary; the government could have done a federal hiring program comparable to what was done during the great depression when 10% of the economy was hired by government. some jobs that could have been created were infrastructure and green jobs. instead everyone was made to suffer on an inadequate welfare system which again, clinton is responsible for destroying.

many countries have housing bubbles again including US. the regulations were inadequate and good chance trump makes it worse. there will be another financial debt crisis.
 
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1989

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michael hudson, steve keen, dean baker all predicted the housing bubble. i would also check out william k black.

there was alot of banking fraud where they knowingly made loans to people who they knew couldnt pay them back, and then made bets against them.

also a system where you make loans to people will drive up prices creating a bubble.

bill clinton is responsible for deregulating the banking system.

the US economy is heavily financialized so perhaps this has something to do with it, i forget.

taking on debt is another way of making up for decades of stagnating wages.

the chief executives should have gone to jail, and the underwater loans should have been bailed out in essence written down to market value. but instead the bankers got off free and got bailed out with bonuses. the unemployment was unnecessary; the government could have done a federal hiring program comparable to what was done during the great depression when 10% of the economy was hired by government. some jobs that could have been created were infrastructure and green jobs. instead everyone was made to suffer on an inadequate welfare system which again, clinton is responsible for destroying.

many countries have housing bubbles again including US. the regulations were inadequate and good chance trump makes it worse. there will be another financial debt crisis.
The US housing market is heating up. But is far from a bubble. eventually supply will catch up with demand, maybe by Q2 2019
 
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