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If you assume that every single CRA loan defaulted, and that every failed loan in the entire housing market was a CRA loan (both assertions are far from true),
by jbooth 13y ago
If you assume that every single CRA loan defaulted, and that every failed loan in the entire housing market was a CRA loan (both assertions are far from true), then the CRA would be responsible for a multiple billion dollar problem. Maybe. Might be well under 1b when you consider that the homes are re-sellable after foreclosure unless they burned without insurance.
On Wall St, we wound up with a multiple trillion dollar problem. That's tr-, not b-, as in 1,000X bigger.
The CRA thing is ideological bullshit. I seriously do not understand how anyone who passed 3rd grade arithmetic could buy into it.