Date: October 15th, 2008

What the financial crisis isn’t: Part 2, the blame game

15 October, 2008 (08:20) | Capital markets, GSEs, Housing, Policy, Subprime, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]

Yesterday we knocked off a handful of things the credit crisis wasn’t:
 

 
1. Not an asset bubble … a systematic under-pricing of risk.
2. Not caused by subprime lending … although that was the miner’s canary.
3. Not principally about the GSEs … because other financial institutions are in much worse shape
4. Not just […]