Comment by datavirtue | Hacker News Reader

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Zero underwriting? You obviously do not know what you are talking about.

I got a "no-doc" non-conforming FHA loan back then. They fucking strip searched me. It was not easy--I still have PTSD from it. That same loan is still available on the market.

You also need a citation on your reason for the financial crisis of 2008.

I had to walk away from my home BECAUSE of the financial crisis (after having paid down 90% of the principle). Was it triggered by defaults or the credit default swaps themselves? Sure, maybe some bad loans were floated,but the sophisticated, hot off of the regulation preventing it, people in New York started gambling on the plebs losing their homes. Well, a few plebs (really, over-leveraged affluent people) lost their homes, and a cascading effect of credit default swaps came due and spun out of control. The crisis was directly caused by Bill Clinton signing a bill that removed key regulation that would prevent the very thing that happened: Gambling on Wall Street.

So STFU.

The 2008 crisis was directly caused by human greed, at all levels, and failing to be reigned in by regulatory bodies.

It's unreasonable to blame one source for something that metastisized over years, involving most parties in the financial sector, until exploding.

Banks could have chosen not to do this business or to hedge their risk in a better way. Credit ratings agencies could have shown some independence and objectivity. Derivatives buyers could have done more due diligence on what they were buying. Home buyers could have looked at the market and said "This is way too hot, and the party can't go on forever."

Deregulation handed everyone rope, including us, and we all hung ourselves.

It stings when you get personally @+$#ed, and it feels good to blame massive, systemic failures on one source, but they're systemic failures for a reason -- because the entire system was culpable.

It must be very difficult and emotional nightmare to walk out of your house. I'm sorry to hear that you lost your home. I don't know specifically what caused the financial crisis of 2008, but I do know that it was complex and had many factors. I'm sorry that you had to go through that.

Retail Banks were able to offer high risk loans with relatively low concern about the actual quality of the loan, due to the high demand for the repackaged assets. The repackaged assets used shenanigans to trick ratings agencies and make the lower quality loans look relatively secure. Thus secondary prices for the loans were high yada yada.

This is a general comment, nobody is saying every bank required zero documentation.

> I got a "no-doc" non-conforming FHA loan back then. They fucking strip searched me. It was not easy--I still have PTSD from it

I cannot imagine how bad some forms and id checks would have to be to give me PTSD.

> So STFU.

Not useful.

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