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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4675209" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Dodd and Frank put pressure on banks to approve mortgages for lower income people well before the recession.  Led to the 2008 crisis because way too many people couldn't pay their mortgage and those mortgages were bundled and sold as derivative investments.  When the mortgages started defaulting the whole banking/investment system about unraveled.  They then passed Dodd-Frank to try to straighten out the mess that they were at least partly responsible for.  That's the part you don't know because in your bubble Democrats do no wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>