Confidence Quote by George W. Bush

The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.

— Joe Mays

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

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts,…

— George Osborne

The overwhelming majority of new mortgages are issued with government backing in a highly concentrated securitization market. That leaves us with both potential taxpayer…

— Jerome Powell

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

— Alan Greenspan

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

he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about zero to…

— Denis Hayes

“The idea, in the wake of the savings-and-loans disaster, was to spread risk outward from those immediately involved in lending to mortgage borrowers and…

— Adam Tooze

People are looking back and trying to, you know, get compensation for bad mortgages and all the rest of it in some of the…

— Hillary Clinton

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

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes…

— Franklin Raines

When you read that UBS did not even view parts of its mortgage portfolio as having market risk, it becomes very obvious that a…

— Kenneth C. Griffin