Your new book is called living in plain sight what really caused the financial crisis and why it could happen again. You were a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission investigating the causes of the 2007 in 2008 financial crisis. You said that only democrats on the committee but the republican appointees what did you see they didnt . Looking at the housing system in the United States with dodd frank and fannie mae and freddie mac for quite a while before i got on the commission so i had a lot of background of what was happening in the housing sector. I was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac and the role they played in the housing crisis and ultimately the financial crisis and i found the commission was not interested in they would not look at it. s. Host that i was outside i thought, the partisan differences between the republicans and democrats and and am afraid that the republicans felt that they just would not agree with
Archives the focus on the 2008 economic recession, trade and finance. All of the programs that youre about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website, booktv. Org and you can do for the search function at the top of the page. First and february of 2015, the American Enterprise Institute Peter wallace and appears on our Author Interview program afterwards. He argued that government policy caused the 2008 financial crisis. Hidden in plain sight pretty literally caused the world financial crisis and why it could happen again printed you remember the financial crisis. It was investigating the causes and oh seven and oh eight pretty and you said that not only in the democrats on the committee but also from the republicans appointees, what did you see that they did not. Ive been looking at the housing system in the United States printed donna frank ansari, fannie mae and freddie mac. For quite a while before i got in the commission. So i had a lot of background of what is
Peter your new book is called hidden in plain sight. You remember the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission investigating the cause of the 2,072,008 financial crisis not only democrats but also from the republican appointees what did you see that they didnt . The housing system in the United States fannie mae and freddie mac for quite a while before a lot of background of what has been happening in the housing sector. I was looking for the commission to look into what happened with fannie mae and freddie mac what role they couldve played in the housing crisis and i found the commission was not interested in that. They would not look at it to the degree that i tried to interest them and given all kinds of signals that is not something they would do but my differences with the republicans came from the fact that my view our responsibility on the commission was to make sure the American People understood what happened in the crisis and i was outside the partisan differences between the repu
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