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Mayor Bloomberg certainly has some vested interest in batting populist rage away from Wall Street toward Congress. But his statement about Congress causing the financial crisis is wrong. Since the housing crisis struck, government lending has actually served as a vital lending safety net. In a February article for the Journal of Urban Affairs, Dan Immergluck (Georgia Tech) shows how through evidence on Federal Housing Administration (FHA) lending patterns.
