Plenty of "conservatives" loved creating a housing bubble.....Growth fuels our economy more than sustainability (in the short-term) and this creates a lot of interest in bubbles being created, whether intended or unintended.
Like Sowell says in the piece...Builders, lenders, investors....Who the hell is gonna object to soaring asset prices as it is happening? Unfortunately not many...
"Ownership society" as that 1 WSJ economist who is a republican called it (forget his name)
nevermind I see FZ in the thread as his own name...Guesser in there
It's like an alternate universe over there
So wait is there no poli forum over there? I thought that is where AK went when he quit here? It looks like it is dead and there is only 1-2 posts every few days.
The housing industry was perfectly fine with government involvement. It wasn't until Wall St and the private sector got their greedy little hands involved did things go to shit. As long as we keep an eye on private mortgage lenders, the housing market should be fine.
Well studies before the housing bust show that these government programs actually were legit because of how much regulation there is behind them. Default rates weren't extraordinarily high, the government backs the loan, which takes the risk away from the banks. The government wasn't even allowed to deal with the sub prime junk loans that the private mortgage lenders were creating. Even the poor people who take advantage of these loans still have to prove they are credit worthy to the government. Most of the loans they gave in these programs were prime loans.