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Barney Frank: “The incentive became to make a quantity of loans and not quality.”

On the recordJuly 22, 2014
The incentive became to make a quantity of loans and not quality.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Frank highlights the issue of prioritizing loan quantity over quality.

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