Everyone loved the housing bubble. The bankers made the most off of it, but the rest of the mob went along because they had convinced themselves they would get

Everyone loved the housing bubble. The bankers made the most off of it, but the rest of the mob went along because they had convinced themselves they would get rich, too, and were pushing it along as hard as they could. I still occasionally encounter people who think the problem with the housing bubble wasn't that it ever existed, but that it ended.