{"id":78194,"date":"2015-10-30T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78194"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:20:33","slug":"steve-sailer-here-we-go-again-obama-administration-on-a-crusade-against-redlining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78194","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sailer: Here We Go Again: Obama Administration on a Crusade Against “Redlining”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: In complete contrast to, say, Apple Stores, which can be found all over the South Bronx and the ungentrified parts of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Oh, wait, sorry, no, Apple Stores can\u2019t actually be found in poor neighborhoods in New York. It\u2019s fine for Apple, the richest company in the world with something like $200 billion in unused cash sitting around, to do business where it thinks best, but banks are subject to federal regulatory oversight.<\/p>\n

Seriously, the moral theory of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act was that banks that open branches in black neighborhoods to take deposits should also lend in the same neighborhoods. It wasn\u2019t about forcing banks to lend in geographical areas where they don\u2019t do business.<\/p>\n

(One unexpected side effect of the CRA was that it hurt small black-owned banks, which traditionally tended to diversify their risks by taking deposits in black neighborhoods and lending in white neighborhoods.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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