Quote Originally Posted by Rank amateur View Post
I'm refering to the one that thought it there was a supply of millions of mortgages that people couldn't afford and demand for millions of mortgages people couldn't afford that could possibly go wrong?
Thus my question -- all since WW II have had that inclination to one degree or another; as for market deregulation, see Carter J. and Clinton, W. For intervention See Johnson L. and Nixon, R.

Again, I suggest you're letting the prime culprits, our venal and corrupt Congress, slide.
If a bridge has too many supporting beams, there's nothing wrong with removing a few, but it's stupid to remove all the support.
Bad simile and feeds into your earlier error because those beams have been removed by several administrations and Congresses over the period of your short lifetime...