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Scott Bessent: “Institutional investors did not participate in the…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Published | Video Starts at 20:23

Yep. So the ban on institutional investors in single family homes, for those of you who are not American in the US Pre great financial crisis, we didn't. Institutional investors did not participate in the single-family market pre-great financial crisis. institutional investors hoovered up single family homes. They continue to do it. And there's a, there's an unfair tax arbitrage there. The you and I have a mortgage. (20:23–20:29)

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