No they didn't.
The core problem in 2008 was a new deal program that allowed banks to have their loans backed with public money provided they made the loans according to whatever criteria the white house wanted. Clinton wanted cheap loans to people who couldn't pay them back, so around ten years later the loans all started going bad and the housing market crashed.
The lefty media went into overdrive blaming "capitalism," meanwhile the government bailed out the two corporations responsible for overseeing the programs (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) and set the whole thing going again.
So yes, there's going to be another housing crash, and a student loan crash because those were being guaranteed too by Obama. Absolutely nothing to do with crooked bookkeeping though. The system is broken by design.
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