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Weird. I thought it was common opinion that recession occured from housing mortgage defaults and the subsequent credit crunch.
by rohit2412 7y ago
Weird. I thought it was common opinion that recession occured from housing mortgage defaults and the subsequent credit crunch.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoWhat started the mortgage defaults though ? (And, also, couldn't cheap oil have maybe helped with the overbuilding of houses in the first place ?)
- tatersolid 7y ago> What started the mortgage defaults though? Good old-fashioned fraud. Oil prices had nothing to do with it. Source: acquaintance who spent three years in court testifying about the rampant fraud in the mortgage industry. He worked for an investment bank which is no longer with us.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoI'm well aware of the structural fraud. My point is that the reason that the bubble popped at that point (and not some years later) were the skyrocketing oil prices, themselves a consequence of (conventional) peak oil. But I guess that it's a bit academical, as that bubble would have popped soon enough anyway...