Amir Sufi, a professor of finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, contends that “Failure to more adequately address the housing crisis was the biggest policy mistake made by the Department of Treasury under Secretary Timothy Geithner’s leadership.” Sufi argues this mistake stems from the Obama Administration’s narrow focus on saving banks, which led to unwise decisions on housing and household debt and kept homeowners from being helped. 
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