The Brookings Institute sums it up:
Low interest rates fueled an explosion of sub-prime mortgages; securitization of these assets masked credit risk. In 2008, the housing bubble burst with declining home values causing a financial crisis to hit U.S. banks, financial institutions, the auto industry...
Are these the real causes? To what extent was this driven by systemic deficiencies in a consumption driven high dept economic system?
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