| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - One of the points made is that in depressing interest rates on home mortgages, and in relaxing lending standards, and in jawboning mortgage originators to lend to anyone with a pulse no matter what their financial condition (over 50% of home loans made in 2007 were to sub-prime borrowers), government assumed a risk for which there was a cost, and should have been reserves set aside to cover.
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