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And there is plenty of blame to go around in this financial crisis, but the reason it happened was 100% caused by a Democrat run government that forced a liberal policy initiated by President Clinton and reforms primarily blocked by Democrats. One would never know this by watching the news or reading newspapers.
The fall in asset prices (such as subprime mortgage backed securities) during 2007 and 2008 caused the equivalent of a bank run on the U.S. shadow banking system, which includes investment banks and other non-depository financial entities.here are several narratives attempting to place the causes of the crisis into context, with overlapping elements. Five such narratives include: 1  There was the equivalent of a bank run on the shadow banking system, which includes investment banks and other non-depository financial entities.