money.cnn.com - 10/7/2008
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(Money Magazine) -- Spend 27 years in Congress and you're bound to encounter more than one financial train wreck. But as Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., sees it, the meltdown in the U.S. housing market poses as much of a threat to the nation's economic well-being as anything he's encountered during ...
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Is Barney Frank accusing himself of racism?
The Next Right —
... I hardly know where to begin.
Yes, "subprime mortgage crisis" is obviously just code for "minorities".
Yes, it's obviously inappropriate to suggest that extending mortgages to people who can't afford them is somehow responsible for this financial crisis of people unable to afford their mortgages.
No, it's not at all ridiculous for Rep. Barney Frank to say these things just weeks after he had praised Bernanke's new rules that restricted mortgages that were ...
Is Barney Frank Racist?
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] A question for the chairman, based on comments he made in August: But we have made a mistake in this society. The assumption that everybody can be a homeowner is wrong. We pushed and encouraged people into home ownership - people who, in some cases, weren't ready for it. You can't act on wishes that are unrealistic without having negative consequences. ...
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