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There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie…

— Mark Zandi

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

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

The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped…

— Al Franken

I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out…

— Hillary Clinton

I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

— Warren Buffett

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

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that…

— Mark Zandi

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity…

— Mortimer Zuckerman

House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all…

— Warren Buffett

What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely…

— Matt Taibbi

A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But…

— Mark Zandi