{"id":34400,"date":"2021-05-19T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=34400"},"modified":"2025-01-07T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T20:00:22","slug":"obama-2008-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/obama-2008-financial-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and the 2008 Financial Crisis: Plan and Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What was Obama&#8217;s role in the 2008 financial crisis? How did he respond to the crisis in his presidency? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Obama, the 2008 financial crisis was one of the most important things that he wanted to address in his presidency. During the campaign, it became clear that John McCain wouldn&#8217;t be able to handle the crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Obama, the 2008 financial crisis, and what happened during his presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-obama-2008-and-the-beginning-of-the-financial-crisis\">Obama, 2008, and the Beginning of the <strong>Financial Crisis <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after the convention, real-world events would permanently alter the dynamic of the race. The 2008 election was already being waged in the context of two unpopular wars and the Bush administration\u2019s failures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But in September, the 2008 financial crisis began in earnest, ushering in the years-long economic slump that would become known as the Great Recession. Obama recognized the 2008 financial crisis as a major test for the nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-real-estate-bubble\"><strong>A Real Estate Bubble<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lax lending standards in the mortgage industry combined with financial deregulation had helped to inflate a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/current-housing-market\/\">housing bubble<\/a> in the 2000s. <\/strong>Unscrupulous mortgage underwriters had encouraged unqualified borrowers to take on far more mortgage debt than they could actually afford, with the promise that they could always refinance their mortgages or take advantage of (what appeared to be) constantly rising real estate prices to \u201cflip\u201d their houses and pay off their mortgages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These underwriters then worked with big banks, who bundled these home loans to unqualified borrowers (now infamously known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-a-subprime-mortgage\/\">subprime mortgages<\/a>) into complex financial instruments like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-are-mortgage-backed-securities\/\">mortgage-backed securities<\/a> (MBSs) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-a-cdo\/\">collateralized debt obligations<\/a> (CDOs). 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But when home prices started falling beginning in 2007 and into 2008, the default rate on subprime mortgages began to skyrocket\u2014meaning that the once-valuable MBSs and CDOs were shedding value and plunging the financial system into collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: For a more in-depth look at the 2008 financial crisis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-big-short\">explore our summary of Michael Lewis\u2019s <em>The Big Short<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Obama watched these extraordinary economic events unfold, he recognized that the epidemic of subprime defaults could trigger a full-on collapse of the banking system, leading to a run of bank failures and a credit crunch not seen since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/great-depression-and-the-new-deal\/\">Great Depression<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-crash-comes\"><strong>The Crash Comes<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2008, mere weeks after Barack accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention, financial giant Lehman Brothers collapsed. 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