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There is an interesting Twitter thread pointing it to Chrysler as the root cause https://twitter.com/KashannKilson/status/953740344369102848 https://twitter.com

• FLUX-YOU 9y ago
  >huge twitter thread with tons of gifs Ugh, kill me. But this doesn't line up to me, unless there were real estate companies and banks eager to unload their houses? I didn't think there was an excess of housing built that needed to be sold, but I could be wrong, because that would have pushed prices down. I thought the key failure was people being unable to pay their mortgages, and a bunch of financial products built off of expecting people to pay their mortgages, and ratings agencies giving incorrect ratings for those subprime mortgages. The only connection I can see is people making dumb financial decisions, which is why a rubber stamp for subprime led to a ton of people defaulting. Houses don't really have the same faults as PT Cruisers.