The core reason why it started was because we had major delinquencies in residential, in a residential housing market, single family homes. And we had a bunch of these delinquencies because Some stupid politician in the 90s, actually several of them thought it was a good idea to have no credit quality when it came to actually being able to buy homes. And the idea was, well, if you just changed all the credit underwriting and made it easy for people to have it, then that would solve all of society's ills. (04:38–04:49)
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Asserts that politicians in the 1990s removed credit quality requirements for home buying.
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