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b_b  ·  3384 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Housing Bubble II, brought to you by the Chinese

Chinese money contributed to the last Price spike too, just less directly. If I'm not mistaken, Chinese were some of the biggest buyers of mortgage backed securities. There was a lot of commentary at that time about how Greenspan made a huge blunder keeping rates so low for so long after the dot com and 9/11 economic downturns. It encourages too much money to be put into speculation, since there was none to be made in treasuries and the like. So much for learning that lesson.