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> "Some people eager to make quick profits bought Donald J. Trump’s well-timed 2004 book, “Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Su
by buckbova 9y ago
> "Some people eager to make quick profits bought Donald J. Trump’s well-timed 2004 book, “Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life,” written with Meredith McIver. Some enrolled in the less well-timed Trump University, which emphasized real estate investment in 2005, at the very end of the housing boom; it shut down, amid lawsuits and recrimination, in 2010."
NY Times takes every opportunity it can to fire a shot across the bow at president trump. Yes, let's blame this on trump, why not?
> "There is still no consensus on why the last housing boom and bust happened."
Seems like there is. Folks were given loans they were unqualified for and had no reasonable way to pay off, some at the behest of the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_policies_and_the_subprime_mortgage_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_policies_and_the_su...