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They got greedy like everyone else, they couldn't have made subprime loans if consumers didn't ask for them.


You are going to find always consumers of cheap money. That's a fact. Specially if you going searching for them actively as the banks did before the crisis.

There is a reason because controls have to be in the side of the lender.

Banks, and everyone else, are always going to be greedy. The source of the problem was not greed (that is a constant) but deregulation, that have not been properly corrected.




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