u/econ_on_my_mind

I'm a sophomore econ student. This is my first time posting. I wrote an institutional defense of private equity's involvement in residential real estate and ran a counterfactual of the '08 crash, to examine whether private equity in its current role could have prevented the crash. I'd love to hear everybody's thoughts. To my knowledge, nobody has ever made this argument before, but that may be because I am totally wrong.