Bankers or bubbles: What caused the financial crisis?

Our readers reckon that greedy bankers played a bigger role in causing the global financial crisis, but Wharton professor Franklin Allen blames the real estate bubble.
<div class="ArticleImageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Don't blame greedy bankers, says Franklin Allen</div>
<div class="ArticleImageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Don't blame greedy bankers, says Franklin Allen</div>

We asked our readers about the causes of the crisis last week, and whether a real estate bubble or greedy bankers had played the bigger role. Voting was relatively close, but the banker bashers won out in the end.

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