Becoming Quote by Al Franken

The financial collapse of 2008 got its start with predatory mortgages, that weren’t sold by community banks and credit unions, they were sold by…

— Elizabeth Warren

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.

— Rush Limbaugh

A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a…

— Dan Gilbert

Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count…

— Mark Skousen

The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.

— Anonymous

“The financial crisis of 2008 is illustrated by the following analogy. There is no doubt that the improvements in engineering have made the passenger…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

The problems of 2008 were never cured. The Federal Reserve's solution to the crisis was to lend the economy enough money to borrow its…

— Michael Hudson

The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact…

— James Surowiecki

The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years…

— Elizabeth Warren

Much of the blame for the Great Recession lies with abuses in the housing market - namely the creation of risky and unsustainable home…

— Lisa Madigan

Let's be honest: It wasn't just the banks who messed up. There were a lot of people who tried to buy assets they couldn't…

— James P. Gorman