A new study from the widely respected National Bureau of Economic Research released this week has confirmed beyond question that the left's race-baiting attacks on the housing market (the Community Reinvestment Act--enacted under Carter, made shockingly more aggressive under Clinton) is directly responsible for imploding the housing market and destroying the economy.
-No one was making bad loans to unqualified people until Democrats came along and threatened to drag banks into court and have them fined and branded as racists if they didn't go along with the left's Affirmative Action lending policies...all while federally insuring their losses
Well, actually both sides were encouraging people to buy homes they really couldn't afford and giving bonuses to the federal agencies employees buying all this toxic paper.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
