Eames36 posted:

Yes the housing bubble was created in large part because of home equity loans for pinball machines.

It had nothing to do with the predatory practices on the part of mortgage lenders

Or the biggest financial institutions in the world securitizing that debt and marketing it as a AAA investment when it was garbage

Or the credit rating firms who were "doing the due diligence" completely fabricating the ratings and colluding with above stated financial institutions

it was because everyone wanted a ball pit in their house, that no one actually has.