Affordable-housing goals established in the 1990s led to a massive increase in risky, subprime mortgages. By Phil Gramm and Mike Solon* Simply put, the financial crisis of 2008 was caused by a lot of banks making a lot of loans to a lot of people who either could not or...
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The Clinton-Era Roots of the Financial Crisis
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