The housing bubble was unsustainable from "summary" of The Big Short by Michael Lewis
The housing bubble was a monster that the financial world had never seen before. It grew and grew, fueled by greed, ignorance, and a blind faith in the system. People were buying houses they couldn't afford, banks were lending money they didn't have, and everyone seemed to think that the good times would never end. But the truth was that the housing bubble was built on a shaky foundation. The mortgages that people were taking out were risky, to say the least. Many of them were subprime loans, given to borrowers with poor credit histories and little income. And yet, these loans were being bundled together, packaged into complex financial products, and sold off to investors as if they were as safe as houses. The problem was that the housing market was a bubble waiting to burst. Prices were rising at an unsustainable rate, far outpacing the growt...
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