The financial crisis happened partly because of loosened lending standards, which resulted in risky loans to people with bad credit and no money for a down payment. Why were these risky loans made? One reason was government pressure. The Obama administration is now ratcheting up that pressure on banks to make more of the risky loans that led to the financial crisis. Attorney Ted Frank explains how we got into this mess:
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