Jack Albrecht
1 min readAug 25, 2020

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Very interesting. But the premise that this was caused by moral hazard of Bush "promising every American the right to own a home" is blindered. As with any balance sheet, there are two sides to every loan. If there was "moral hazard" that had to include the lenders who approved those loans and expected their losses to be covered by the federal government.

Those losses were covered, which created a greater moral hazard which exists to this day.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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