So you can take this Op-Ed that confirms your bias, and shove it up your fat, geriatric ass.
The Fed had nothing to do with Bush's regulators dramatically weakening lending standards for subprime. Do I really, really need to post the quotes from Bush's Working Group and The Federal Reserve that says those lending standards are what caused the crisis?
“The Presidents Working Group’s March policy statement acknowledged that
turmoil in financial markets clearly was triggered by a dramatic weakening of underwriting standards for U.S. subprime mortgages, beginning in late 2004 and extending into 2007.”
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-cen...s update.pdf
"Since 1995 there has been essentially no change in the basic CRA rules or enforcement process that can be reasonably linked to the subprime lending activity. This fact weakens the link between the CRA and the current crisis
since the crisis is rooted in poor performance of mortgage loans made between 2004 and 2007. "
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsev...3_analysis.pdf