[lbo-talk] Sub-prime crisis in Kansas City

[John Thornton]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> The Boston Fed did some rigorous mortgage studies in the late 80s or  
> early 90s showing significant racial discrim after controlling for  
> everything else. I hope someone does that for this cycle. The  
> industry won't release FICO scores to researchers now, but you should  
> be able to do it with the HMDA data.

But in the meantime since we know how much our society has advanced with 
regards to race relations since those dark days it really does behoove 
us to give the fine fellows who brought us this current crisis the 
benefit of the doubt and assume there was no racist targeting of 
minorities, right?

Those who disagree can add their off-list "fuck you" emails to me 
off-list as Jordan did.

John Thornton